Crying Fowl West Hartford(Google Maps Location) Multiple Visits 2019 Update: This page is a bit... old. The pictures are bad and poorly formatted, but you'll get the gist. We've been here a million times. In fact, I was just there a few weeks ago in April 2019 chaperoning a field trip for my second grader, … [Read more...]
60. The Smith-Harris House/Brookside Farm Museum
You'll Always Be the Thomas Avery House To Me You'll Always Be the Smith-Harris House To Me East Lyme (Google Maps Location) June 14, 2008 Breaking News, July 5, 2018: The Smith-Harris House will now be called Brookside Farm Museum, with the tagline "Cultivating the Story: Avery, Smith and Harris, 1845-1955," in a … [Read more...]
62. Somers Historical Society Museum
Somerstime, and the Livin' is Easy Somers (Google Maps Location) June 28, 2008 My visit up to Somers was perhaps one of my most random forays ever done for this website. One fine Saturday I remember just putting Damian down to nap and telling Hoang I had to just "go." When you have a special needs child and … [Read more...]
72. New Britain Youth Museum
Youth of Today New Britain (Google Maps Location) September 27, 2008 Growing up, I was mostly influenced by my older brother. In the early to mid-eighties, he (and therefore, I) started getting into punk and hardcore music. I was never a social outcast or anything, I was simply drawn to the hard, fast, … [Read more...]
58. Thomas Lee House Museum
Nice, But Where's the Stripper Pole? East Lyme (Google Maps Location) June 14, 2008 No stripper pole? No weird swing above the bed? No music studio? It stands to reason that ol' Thomas Lee was called Tommy by his mates. So you can't blame me for thinking I was going to a museum built in honor of Mr. Pam … [Read more...]
73. New Britain Local History Room
Fafnir for the Common New Britain Man New Britain (Google Maps Location) October 1, 2008 Update: I likely wouldn't include this place in my list of museums now, but I did in 2008, so here we are. Being married to a woman who grew up in New Britain from the tender age of two until I married her 29 years … [Read more...]
71. The Lewis Walpole Library
Shhh! It's a Secret Library Museum! Farmington (Google Maps Location) September 24, 2008 My 71st museum marks a milestone: My first "private tours given by appointment only" visit. How exciting! At least now I know I can handle them, as there are many others or so that require such TLC. And such tours are to … [Read more...]
59. Little Boston School House Museum
Err-ah, Lahhn Ya Three Ahhhhs East Lyme ((Google Maps Location) June 14, 2008 Bostonese-to-English title translation: "Hello, Learn Your Three R's." Nestled next to the far more expansive and interesting Thomas Lee House (CTMQ visit here!) in East Lyme is this little one-room schoolhouse museum. I won't lie … [Read more...]
54. Merritt Parkway Museum
A Museum Not Without Merritt Stratford (Google Maps Location) June 2, 2008 2019 update: Since writing this, there have been widening, tree-clearing, and off/on-ramp improvements to the Merritt. It's still mildly charming and dangerous however. What is a museum? According to Webster's (and since Noah Webster … [Read more...]
55. Museum on the Green
Come and Drink the Green Kool-Aid Glastonbury (Google Maps Location) June 14, 2008 This is the greatest museum not only in Connecticut, but in the world. I love Glastonbury's Museum on the Green and all my readers must flock to it in droves and genuflect before the great brick building. Come... Drink the Green … [Read more...]
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