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CTMQ > Articles by: Steve

266. Tourtellotte Memorial Room Museum

March 9, 2020 by Steve 2 Comments

Nice $&^$! Museum... #$&$! Thompson (Google Maps location) May 28, 2014 I apologize for my crude title, but it's just very hard for me to say "Tourtellote" without thinking of Tourettes Syndrome. As a parent of a special needs child with very different, but similarly debilitating behaviors, I'm not making fun of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: Appointment Only, Dubious Claims, Free Museums, Largests Longests Mosts Smallests and Tallests, Thompson

CTMQ’s Guide to New Haven

March 8, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

Everything New Haven I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” New Haven CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. If … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CTMQ Town Guides, New Post Tagged With: New Haven

CT Books, Movies, People, & Stories

March 6, 2020 by Steve 3 Comments

Connecticut Books, People, & Essays I probably shouldn’t have ever begun reading and writing about Connecticut books. It’s just one of those lists that I can’t possibly “finish” in any meaningful way. But that’s fine, I don’t mind. If you’re is into books, I also review non-Connecticut hiking books and the Modern … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Movies, People, & Stories, Everything Else Tagged With: books, Brushes with fame, Connecticut Books, Connecticut children's books, Connecticut Fiction books, Connecticut Hiking & Outdoors Books, Connecticut History Books, Connecticut memoir books, connecticut movies, connecticut photography books, Connecticut Travel Guides & Cookbooks, ctmq&a, movies, town essays

Oil City Dam

March 5, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

Snake Oil Oil City at Rainbow Reservoir, Windsor There is a lot going on at Northwest Park in Windsor. Today, you can find all sorts of stuff from a little nature museum to a tobacco history museum to a dozen miles of trails and more. And stuff has been happening here for a long time. I don’t typically … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, New Post, Superlatives, Towers, Bridges, Forts, Tunnels, Roads, Canals, Dams, Fishways, Airports, & Ferries Tagged With: Canals and Dams, Dubious Claims, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Northwest Park, Windsor

Book Review: Connecticut River From the Air

March 4, 2020 by Steve 1 Comment

The Connecticut River from the Air: An Intimate Perspective of New England by Jerry Roberts (Author), Tom Walsh (Photographer) This is a beautiful book. As your friendly expert on Connecticut coffee table books, I’m pleased to report that this is one of the best. Not only are the many hundreds of photographs … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Movies, People, & Stories, Everything Else, New Post Tagged With: Connecticut Books, connecticut photography books

267. Josephine A. Dolan Nursing Museum

March 2, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

Will I Nurse This Review, Or Just Milk It? Mansfield (Google Maps location) May 30, 2014 What up, SON? I said, What up, SON?" Oh, hello. That's George, a heart patient simulator at UConn's School of Nursing (SON) program in Storrs. He lies in the Josephine A. Dolan Collection of nursing history and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, Creepy Dolls, Free Museums, Mansfield, Not Really a Museum Museum, Storrs, UConn

FLT: Hetzel Refuge

March 1, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

Hike the Hetzel Pretzel Flanders Land Trust: Hetzel Refuge ~1.5 Mile, May 2019 The trail system at the Hetzel Refuge isn’t remotely pretzel-shaped, but I’m sticking with my title. I did, in fact, hike a couple loops that – oh never mind. No use in trying to invent some sort of Hetzel Pretzel logic here. The … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: flanders land trust, Middlebury

The Stepford Wives (1975)

February 28, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

How Dar-ien You The Stepford Wives, 1975 Rare is the movie or book (both, in this case) that creates a new, universally used way to describe something. Sophie’s Choice was certainly one. The Stepford Wives is another. I remember listening to Howard Stern in the 1980’s and 90’s talking about his ex-wife’s circle of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Movies, People, & Stories, Everything Else, New Post Tagged With: connecticut movies, Darien, movies, The Stepford Universe, Wilton

CTMQ’s Guide to Deep River

February 27, 2020 by Steve 1 Comment

Everything Deep River I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Deep River CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CTMQ Town Guides, New Post Tagged With: Deep River

Deep River Land Trust Trails Intro

February 27, 2020 by Steve 1 Comment

Deep River Land Trust Deep River Shout out to our friends at the Deep River Land Trust. No, not for the fact that "Deep River Land Trust" probably sounds funny to people who don't immediately know that Deep River is a Connecticut town with earthen land... shout out to them for have a website, with a modicum of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes Tagged With: Deep River, deep river land trust

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