San Miguel de Allende, Mexico.
In August 2012, because of continued layoffs at the local coal mine, John and Crystal Jarrell could no longer afford their home. This forced them, and their two children, to move in with John's parents in Van, WV, putting a total of seven people under one roof.
Vigil in Hartford, CT.
A watermelon salad at Bread & Water in Middleton, Connecticut for Hartford Magazine
Mayah Nossbaum, 18, gets emotional while her grandmother, Anneliese Nossbaum, tells her about her experience during the holocaust while on a tour of Auschwitz in Oświęcim, Poland on January 28, 2020. The Nossbaum’s traveled to Auschwitz for the 75th anniversary of its liberation, where Anneliese was sent during the Holocaust.
A young girl dances with Nutcracker ballerinas at the West Hartford library in West Hartford, Connecticut.
Hartford activist Cornell Lewis leads a crowd of protestors to Hartford police headquarters on Friday, where participants honored the memory of black people killed by police in 2016 by saying their names and holding a die-in, where white members of the protest held the names of those killed as they lay on the concrete. This protest was held in response to the shooting of 40-year-old Terence Crutcher in Tulsa by an officer even though Crutcher had his hands above his head. The officer in the case has been charged with manslaughter. In Charlotte, Keith Lamont Scott, was also killed by an officer.
Ominaihly Flores, 4, whispers into her mother's, Kati Lopez's ear at a vigil held for William Prieto, 32, who was shot and killed while sitting on his porch in Hartford, CT on August 31st. Prieto was the 23rd homicide in Hartford in 2015.
Punchy O' Guts and her teammates stretch and chug whiskey after a roller derby bout in Portland, Maine. Roller Derby is a contact sport played by two teams where five members skate around the track in the same direction. The teams score points, when the jammer (a designated scorer) laps members on the opposing team.
A wedding portrait hangs on a wall in San Miguel de Allende.
Sportsmanship won out in the agony of defeat for Lisbon High School's catcher Nick Lerette who was comforted by Monmouth High School's catcher Gage Cote, after Monmouth scored the winning run in a 6-5 in an 8-inning game in Lisbon, Maine.
Lilly Ledbetter poses with democratic women senators to celebrate the fifth anniversary of the Lilly Ledbetter fair pay act on January 28th, 2014.
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Because of continuous layoffs in coal mines in Southern West Virginia, John and Crystal Jarrell and their two kids lost their home. After not being able to find jobs, they moved four hours north to Morgantown, West Virginia. Rylan, 3, and JayCee, 2, had their own rooms before the move, now they share a lot of things, including a bed.
Judson Kent and his children Jet, 10, and Siva, 7, build a large halloween display every year. This year Jet put it all together and came up with the ideas which, it included a graveyard, limbs hanging from trees and a buried body.
At Governor elect Terry McAuliffe’s election night event at the Sheraton Hotel in Tyson’s Corner, VA. Alexandra Dixon, of Fairfax, VA, rejoices as Terry McAuliffe is announced the winner of Virginia’s Gubernatorial election.
At the Martel school in Lewiston, Maine, Bates College students read books to 4th, 5th and 6th grade students about the civil right movement, a few days after MLK day.
June Weeks holds a tissue in her hand in case she cries, as she watches her husband Clayton Weeks, a veteran, receive an award thanking him for his service in their mobile home in Mexico, Maine.
Amiyah Austin, 6, of Hartford rides her bike with her cousins in Bushnell Park during the parks Monday night Jazz series.
Hallie Wiser, 3, and Tessa Wiser, 6, play with baby ducklings at the Flaming Farm Petting Zoo in West Simsbury, Connecticut.
Dante Salce, 19, and Gustav Perterson, 19, of Stratford look at their iPhones as the wait for Republican Presidential Nominee Donald Trump to speak at Sacred Heart University in Fairfield, Connecticut on Saturday evening.
West Tarricone, age 9, has a severe epeleptic disorder. On September 2nd, had a massive tonic clonic seizure, turning her face red, causing swelling to her head and she was not able to breath. After treating her with medication and calling 911, she was transported to the local ER. Later arriving at Connecticut Children's Medical Center and admitted for a long term Telemetry EEG. She was monitored on the EEG for 6 days, and stayed in the hospital a total of sixteen because she was continuing to go into status seizures every 24 hours.
A immigration reform rally outside of the U.S. Capitol building in 2013.
Crystal Jarrell smokes a cigarette in her house before moving out.
Maraeka Merchant cries tears of joy after it was announced that her team, the Lewiston Devils, won the Maine State Cheerleading Championship at the Augusta Civic Center in Augusta, Maine.
Lee Medina cuts Carlos Morales' hair in the alley in front of his Billings Forge apartment in Hartford, Connecticut. "This is the best place to get a hair cut," said Morales, who met Medina through his own father who also gets his hair cut by him. Medina is a barber and a dancer and has been cutting hair for the community in Billings Forge since he moved into his apartment two years ago.
Children watch the Chinesse New Year Day Parade in Washington, DC.
A cowboy at Canada de la Virgin in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, milks the cows at dawn.
The Nutcracker rehearsal at The University of Hartford.
Jared Brodeur, of Enfield, Ct. flies a miniature Millennium Falcon drone in his living room.
Portrait of Cellist Ravenna Michalsen in her home studio in New Haven. Michalsen is the creator of "Dignity Music," a series of 8-10 free classical concerts that Ravenna is presenting, for the second year, to the homeless and marginally homeless at soup kitchens and shelters around New Haven.
A Liberty Tax employee, dressed as the Statue of Liberty, attempts to draw new clients as she stands on a giant pile of snow in Auburn, Maine.
For years, people in Simsbury, Ct have been hearing a “mystery bagpiper” who plays the bagpipe in local fields. The bagpiper is Jim Feeney, an Afghanistan war veteran who played his pipes during combat to keep up the troops.
JayCee Jarrell, 3, puts up a fight as her mom and mawmaw get her ready to compete in the Coal Festival Beauty Pageant. After spending most of the night shopping in Walmart to get beauty supplies, JayCee just wants to go back to sleep.
Bloomfield High School Senior Cassidy Palmer won the 55 and 300 meter dashes at the State Open and Class S championships. She was the first girl to break seven seconds in the 55 in state history (6.99). She helped Bloomfield 4x200-meter relay team break the state record and led Bloomfield to the first State Open title.
Hartford Patrol Officer Kelwin Perez
Jane Palzere, 90, wrote an op ed about experiencing sexual assault at her first job in a Waterbury department store in 1942. She and the other girls complained to the president of the department store to no avail, but they worked out a way to stop the harassment.
Nury Chavarria, of Norwalk, seeks sanctuary inside La Iglesia de Dios Pentecostal church in New Haven after ignoring a deportation order to return to Guatemala on Thursday. ICE now considers Chavarria to be a fugitive, but they don't generally conduct enforcement operations inside churches. While in the church she has been accompanied by her 9-year-old daughter, Hayley. "I believe that God put me here," Chavarria said, so she can be a voice for undocumented immigrants.
Former Bank of America manager Mary Lyons, of Hamden, who called 911 and told the police that a woman, Jennifer Hawke-Petit, had wanted to withdraw $15,000 without ID, and that her family was being held hostage in 2007. Later Hawke-Petit and her two daughters were murdered. Now, at age 70, Lyons is very active volunteer in social causes in Meriden and Wallingford.
A child sees and plays with a balloon for the first time in the Mok Dou village, in rural Laos.
Photographer and Trinity Professor of Fine Arts Pablo Delano, sits in Trinity College's Broad Street Gallery in front of photographs from his freshman seminar called "Photographing Hartford; Our City." Delano is teaching his students to use the camera as a tool for research and discovery and as a way to get to know the city of Hartford.
Paige Drury, 13, of Glastonbury, has been blind since birth due to a genetic disorder. She will be attending the National Braille Challenge in Los Angeles this summer. She is one of fifty students from around the country who made it through regional competitions to get to the national event. This is the fifth year she will be attending. "I'm really happy, I almost can't believe it," Paige said about being able to attend the competition this year. The championship is comprised of four sections, reading comprehension, proof reading, speed and accuracy and charts and graphs. Attending the competition "Improves her self esteem. She gets to make a lot of social connections she doesn't make here [Glastonbury]," Paige's mother Heather Drury said.
Goldie Peacock is a drag king in Portland, Maine. She binds her breasts before her performances to look more like the male characters she preforms as.
"This is a favorite game of ours, and we haven't been skiing yet" said Peggy Dwyer of Livermore. Dwyer comes to Roberts Farm Preserve in Norway Maine to go skijoring with her four poodles, from left, Diva, Levi, Brie and Peach. Skijoring is a winter sport where a person on skis and is pulled by their dog(s).
Crystal Jarrell smokes a cigarette outside her in laws house in Van, West Virginia.
Doug Comstock, 60, of East Granby, swims at West Hill Pond in Barkhamsted, Ct. He trains 4-6 times a week. Comstock will swim the English Channel at the end of July to benefit Foodshare and East Granby's "Friend to Friend" food pantry. If he is successful, he will be one of few at age 60+ to finish.
Jazz photographer Maurice D. Robertson, in his apartment and art gallery in Hartford.
Navaho Washington, 7, of the Hartford Neighborhood Center's Camp Hi Hoti, relaxes in Pope Park between playtime and lunch. Camp Hi Hoti offers an educational and recreational outdoor experience geared to enhance the overall development of a child.
