"Don’t Sleep on This Place” Nod Hill Brewery, Ridgefield May 2018 If you foolishly lurk around beer groups on social media, you’ll see the phrase “don’t sleep on this [beer/brewery]” quite often. It’s especially irksome when it’s some well-established brewery or more often, just another New England IPA that tastes … [Read more...]
East Granby’s Town Trails
East Granby’s Town Trails There are some nice natural areas in East Granby – especially up on the Metacomet Ridgeline that cuts the town in two from south to north. So it’s no surprise that lots of trailed properties in town are sited on the hillsides and up to the ridge. Cowles Park has sort of been … [Read more...]
East Granby Land Trust Trails Intro
East Granby Land Trust Trails East Granby is just... East Granby. It's not all fancified like Granby with its "North Granby" and "West Granby" frou-frou. No, East Granby just goes hard by itself. East. Gran. By. Which is cool and all but the East Granby Land Trust doesn't provide maps online (as of mid-2019) … [Read more...]
Huntington State Park Bears!
... And Wolves Too Anna Hyatt Huntington Sculptures Redding For the uninitiated, I have been a big Stephen Colbert fan for many, many years. (I’ll admit, I no longer watch him now that he’s on CBS, but I was a devotee of his Comedy Central show.) He had a lot of recurring jokes, one of which centered around bears. … [Read more...]
Bailey’s Ravine at Ayers Gap
A Gap in My Knowledge Bailey's Ravine at Ayers Gap, Franklin September 2018 If you just want to see the waterfall here, go here. This page is about the whole area and its trails. First things first. Is this still a Nature Conservancy property? Who can tell? As far as I know it is, but the Nature Conservancy's … [Read more...]
Countryside Park & Covered Bridge
Might as Well Cover the Whole Countryside Countryside Park Covered Bridge, Avon July 2016 Little Countryside Park, tucked away in western Avon next to the larger Huckleberry Hill property, deserves its own separate identity. This occurred to me as I was looking for information on the covered bridge here and … [Read more...]
CTMQ’s Guide to Redding
Everything Redding 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” Redding CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. If … [Read more...]
Redding Land Trust Intro
Redding Land Trust Redding & Bethel Hoo boy, Redding has not made this easy on me. In the past, one had to go to Redding and find Redding’s “Book of Trails” in order to have any clue where to hike. In 2019, the town/land trust put the book online, making my life much easier. (This, after driving out there to buy … [Read more...]
Redding’s Town Trails Intro
Redding's Town Trails Hoo boy, Redding has not made this easy on me. In the past, one had to go to Redding and find Redding's "Book of Trails" in order to have any clue where to hike. In 2019, the town/land trust put the book online, making my life much easier. (This, after driving out there to buy one... a few … [Read more...]
389. Elton Tavern Museum
Little Pink Houses, For You and Me Burlington (Google Maps location) June 9, 2018 Very few, if any, of you have stopped to think about all the Connecticut museums you've driven by a million times and have never visited. It's a refrain I hear all the time when people email me or speak with me about CTMQ. And it's … [Read more...]
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