A NEW PURPOSE

Gardening tools made by the Swords to Plowshares Northeast program are displayed during a demonstration at the Yale Divinity School in New Haven Friday.

Arnold Gold / Hearst Connecticut Media

Bishop Jim Curry, left, co-founder of the Swords to Plowshares Northeast, holds a heated section of gun barrel as Yale Divinity School student Jonathan Lee hammers it into the shape of a trowel during a demonstration at the Yale Divinity School in New Haven Friday. The Swords to Plowshares Northeast program repurposes guns from buyback programs into gardening tools.