David Holahan is Manager of Public Relations at Centerbrook. His freelance writing credits include The New York Times, The Washington Post and Newsweek.
December 15, 2011 – 11:01 am
Picking colors totally freaks people out, from homeowners to Fortune 500 CEOs. Re-painting, even re-re-painting is common. Getting the six exterior colors right at the new Hillside Research Campus at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory was critical to its success in blending in: both with the built and natural setting at the venerable institution and also [...]
October 19, 2011 – 2:46 pm
The headline above could reference brand new edifices that preternaturally swoop and sway, hither and thither, as if a tornado had been an integral part of the design team. Or perhaps the “Orange Cube,” a commercial apparition in Lyon, France that appears to be a giant pumpkin-carving project gone awry (it’s actually more fun than [...]
October 6, 2011 – 1:52 pm
It seemed like the sociable thing to do, signing up for the Badminton Open at the home office, forming a team with my marketing colleague Chris. Show the departmental flag, what, what! Hail fellows well met on the playing fields of Centerbrook! Pip, pip, cheerio, and all that tommyrot! How hard could it be? It [...]
As Yogi Berra once famously averred, “You can observe a lot by watching.” The lower office parking lot, below the dam on the Falls River, is a splendid place to observe wildlife, even from your car. The other day, as I pulled in after lunch, I noticed a pair of Canada geese patrolling the far [...]
Kroon Hall was not the star of “Changing Planet,” a town hall meeting moderated by Tom Brokaw, but it was the venue – and clearly chosen for its symbolic value. The LEED Platinum home to the Yale School of Forestry and Environmental Studies was designed to use 58 less energy than a comparable, conventional building [...]
“Stereotypes be damned” seemed to be the message from the lethargic beaver that spent the good part of a recent afternoon lounging about the dam on the Centerbrook campus like a housecat after a three-course meal. The body language was clear: it sidled to a sunny corner of the badminton court – alas, a bit [...]
Spring hereabouts is no respecter of calendars, or human longing, or depleted woodpiles. But one glance across the millpond settles the question. Wading at the edge of the flinty gray water, backlit by moldering brown leaves, is a pure vision of hope. The Great Egret has returned.
March 25, 2011 – 10:42 am
She’s a compact, being 11 feet long by nearly five feet wide, but seats four nicely – namely, Truly Scrumptious and Caractacus Potts, plus a modest entourage. This extremely limited edition gets unbelievable gas mileage, both on the ground and off. Her dashing wood and aluminum exterior, blood-red wheels and brass oval grille recall ever-so-swell [...]
March 17, 2011 – 11:09 am
Casually rooting for a team, or teams, in collegiate post-season play is easy. Filling out a bracket in a fiscally responsible manner (if you get my drift) when you have six “favorites” in the field is a horse of another hue. At this writing, there are 64 basketball teams in the running for the NCAA [...]
Everyone is dying to know what the big bad winter meant for the annual production of Centerbrook maple syrup down by the Falls River … over to the lower parking lot … across from weeping willows …where the sugar maples grow, side by each. No one has said boo, but they’re just being shy, of [...]
