Back to Back East Back East Brewing Company, Bloomfield Multiple visits Now that Back East is an OG brewery, they get the fancy "review over time" treatment. And no, I can't do this for every brewery as it turns eight-years-old. But Back East has gone through so many changes that I felt it was time to revisit … [Read more...]
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191. Blue Slope Country Farm Museum
Feeling Blue? Then Go Here Franklin (Google Maps location) October 2, 2010 Hoang was pregnant and tired. Damian has never really enjoyed physical efforts or putzing around at outdoor events. I was struggling with inner thoughts of how I'd make the last museum we visited, the Ashbel Woodward House Museum … [Read more...]
Thankful Arnold House Garden
Thankful Arnold House Garden Wilhelmina Ann Arnold Barnhart Memorial Garden, Haddam June 14, 2008 I visited this historic garden before the Historic Garden initiative began. As a result, I didn’t exactly spend too much time in the gardens, even though a lovely woman was tending to them during my visit to the house … [Read more...]
Fidelco Guide Dogs
Fidelco Guide Dogs/Kaman Company Bloomfield April 16, 2011 Another cold and dreary spring weekend here in Connecticut with a bored special needs five-year-old, who NEEDS to get out and about or we ALL go crazy. What to do, what to do… Oh I know, we’ll go see some doggies! Damian loves dogs! And, truth be … [Read more...]
Heublein Tower
Heublein Tower on Talcott Mountain Simsbury Stone Tower (165 feet) on Talcott Mountain summit (1000 feet) For more on the Metacomet Trail hike up, go here. For more on the Avon Land Trust trails/hike up, go here. For more on the Heublein Tower Museum housed inside, go here. And finally, the 2015 Sky's the Limit … [Read more...]
198. Governor’s Residence
One Rell of a Good Time Hartford (Google Maps location) December 4, 2010 I’ve made mention before about how I get a little thrill out of getting to visit rarely open museums (or in this case, museum-like things). Each time I do feels like a big win for me. I’ve had the Governor’s Residence on my CTMQ radar for … [Read more...]
CT High School Coaches Assoc. Hall of Fame
I waited 5 years for this?! Hartford (Google Maps location) August 14, 2010 For the first time in 184 museums I'm at a loss for words. I really have nothing to say about the Connecticut High School Coaches Hall of Fame. Though shouldn't it be "Coaches'?" It's their Hall of Fame, right? But as you'll see in … [Read more...]
State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites
Stately List State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, Natural Area Preserves, Wildlife Management & Field Trial Areas, & Campsites This page was a huge mess for CTMQ’s first 10 years. Connecticut makes such a simple sounding list incredibly difficult to organize for a bunch of reasons that you don’t care about. … [Read more...]
ASME: Roosa Master Diesel Fuel-Injection Pump
ASME Landmark #131 (1947) Stanadyne Auto Corp., Diesel Systems Division Roosa Master Diesel Fuel-Injection Pump Windsor I have the very good fortune of living and/or working rather close to half of these American Society of Mechanical Engineers Landmarks. Bloomfield! Windsor! Windsor Locks! Hartford! If I … [Read more...]
188. 4-H Education Center at Auer Farm
Historic, Hot, Hip and Happenin’ Bloomfield (Google Maps Location) August 8, 2009 All things Auer Farm This page was written about a 2009 visit - two years before my younger son was born. That younger son went to a preschool that visited Auer Farm every month, even in single-digit temperatures. I chaperoned … [Read more...]
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