Artist Linda Abadjian discusses her paintings which are now on display at Charter Oak Cultural Center.  Her work depicts decades of destruction in the Middle East, mostly her native Lebanon, and tries to find hope in the depths of war. Visit LindaAbadjian.com for more information and images.

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By Steve Thornton, courtesy of Homefront

On a cool and sunny fall day in Hartford, ten thousand people jammed into Bushnell Park with one goal: to stop the war in Vietnam. As the single largest protest of its kind in the city’s history, October 15, 1969 was historic.  And the thousands who marched to downtown Hartford were only part of the 90,000 Connecticut residents taking part in peace actions in dozens of cities, towns, schools and churches against a war that had already taken a deadly toll on two countries. It was called Moratorium Day– Read the full story