A series of entries designed to capture the ongoing adventures of NINA! See how we came to be where we are today, and follow along as we enter the new century of social media!
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Okay, so not exactly. "Closed" or "Transferred Title" would be more accurate, but neither has the dramatic impact of ... "Sold!" Today, we happily saw 52 Huntington Street off to Asylum Hill's newest homeowners, and we wish them well in their new abode!
These plants just sprang up. We liked them, plus there’s an old 4-H ethos that you never, ever kill a plant, so we’ll leave its fate up to the new homeowners. However, when we took a look at the seed pods, we sort of kind of wondered if that was the best idea …
Actually, now that I'm thinking about it, the better movie reference is probably The Thing from Another World with James Arness. The alien in that one was clearly a plant. I've never been so certain about what the "pod people" were in Body Snatchers, although Wikipedia assures my memory is good, they were alien plant spores.
We got this idea from the kitchen The Hartford donated to us over at 94 Ashley. How cool is this?
Looks like we'll be closing on 52 Huntington very soon now, so it seemed a good time to take one last look around the house while it's still ours.
Phil Rigueur, who represents Aetna on our Board of Directors, was selected a member of the Hartford Business Journal’s 2018 class of “40 under 40” honorees. HBJ recognized him in part for his work on NINA’s board as well as at the Wilson Gray YMCA and on the Hartford Redevelopment Agency.
Congratulations, Phil!
The consultants working with ConnDOT came back today with their robotic boring device, and they tested deep below the surface to see if there were any signs of an Algonquin village here. As noted before, it wasn't likely they'd turn up anything -- our site is very close to the Park River bed -- and the consultants expected that anything that could have been there 400 years ago was more than likely washed away during the seasonal riparian flooding. Indeed, the preliminary results were that our site held no archaeological value.
Of course, we're fully expecting to find signs of much later human activity, from around 1947 or so, when we start digging for the foundations of our new town homes.
We really were thrilled when Lime Bike rolled out in Hartford, and we’ve been equally thrilled to see so many of them about Asylum Hill, clearly indicated how useful they’ve been to people. But today we encountered this one dumped in the Veeder Place lobby – presumably, someone rode it here and then didn’t want someone else to ride off with it, but still.
Standing on the second floor, looking up.
Team Rubicon came by today to start the interior demolition for us. They went to work on the second floor, and they did an amazing amount of work! That dumpster was empty this morning ….
The event was organized by Vic Civitello, a carpenter who works with us regularly who is also a military veteran. Team Rubicon is a veteran service organization that uses disaster response to help reintegrate veterans back into civilian life – 117 Sigourney isn’t exactly a disaster, but Team Rubicon was looking to do some work in Hartford and our project seemed a good fit for them.
The volunteers came from all around the country, and they stayed across the street at Trinity Episcopal Church, to whom we’re very grateful for pitching in.
