Eno's Traffic Simsbury Free Library, Simsbury November 2024 Connecticut museum visit #540. Funny story: I visited this library within a week or two of visiting another unique library in New Haven. There was no question in my brain that that library can be called a museum. But this one in Simsbury? I waffled. I … [Read more...]
Book Review: A Museum of Early American Tools
Toolin' Along A Museum of Early American Tools, Eric Sloane (1964) Connecticut museum visit #541. This is a first. 541 Connecticut museums into this decades-long project and I'm calling a book I just read a museum. Which is ridiculous. Absurd. Ludicrous. The book was written by Eric Sloane, one of … [Read more...]
Founders League Private Prep School Museums
Fahncy Founders League Private Prep School Museums, Various Towns This page is only about the 9 Connecticut schools in The Founders Athletic League. There are many other schools - boarding, prep, and public - around the state with museums. You can blame this page on my very specific, very undiagnosed, very … [Read more...]
Thimble Island Old Saybrook Brewpub (Closed)
A Thimble of Time Thimble Island Brewpub, Old Saybrook This Thimble Island location closed in January 2025. I never visited. It's tough out there, folks. While the flagship Thimble Island Brewery is still open in an office park in Branford, this attempt at a second location in Old Saybrook lasted only nine … [Read more...]
Ethiopia: Lalibela
Lali, Lali, Lali Get Your Injera Here... CT Food Tour of the World at Lalibela, New Haven November 2024 I'm facing a crisis. And if my wife wrote about places like Lalibela like I do, she'd have the same issue. Is it an ethical issue? An existential one? I'm not sure, but it certainly won't be the first time I … [Read more...]
Meadowood
I, Too, Have a Dream... But No Answers Meadowood, Simsbury November 2024 I try, with varied success, to be fairly politically neutral on this site. And I will continue to try on this page about some old tobacco barns in a farmed field in northern Simsbury as well. Mostly because I honestly don't know where I'd … [Read more...]
Highlawn Forest
Herbert's Way is the Only Way CFPA's Highlawn Forest, Middlefield & Middletown April 2009 & November 2023 No one would complain if I just ignored my "hike" here in 2009 as it was maybe a third of a mile total. Back then, the trails here weren't trails as much as they were demonstrations of how the CFPA trails … [Read more...]
Hell Hole
Aw. I Think Simsbury is Nice! Hell Hole, Simsbury This page is a great example of who I am at my deepest core... for better or for worse. And I won't even burden you with how far down the Satanic rabbit hole I went just now either. Okay, so, yeah. I try to find all these places around the state named for the … [Read more...]
Rimmon School House (Closed)
Rimmon Job Rimmon School House, Beacon Falls November 2024 Y'know, this was never a museum and I'm 99% sure it will never be a museum, but here it is, what I'm calling Connecticut museum visit #531. Look, I get it. You think I'm just padding my museum visit stats. Fine. But do you really think that a guy … [Read more...]
Stappa Vineyard
Just Stahhpp Stappa Vineyard, Orange November 2024 The tasting room at Stappa Vineyard in Orange is lovely. The grounds are expansive and nice. The people working there were very friendly. Thank you for coming to my page about this winery. I really should stappa there. But you people expect more. I … [Read more...]
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