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CTMQ > Articles by: Steve

Liuzzi’s Cheese

March 17, 2011 by Steve 3 Comments

Mama Mia! Liuzzi’s Cheese, North Haven December 2010 North Haven doesn’t have a huge representation on CTMQ. A few little museums and some trails here and there. And there’s this: Liuzzi’s Cheese – which is really much, much more than just cheese – tucked away amidst some ugly industrial and office buildings … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails Tagged With: CT Cheese Trail, North Haven, Other Companies and Businesses

Sweet Pea Farm

March 16, 2011 by Steve 5 Comments

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! Sweet Pea Farm Cheese at House of Hayes Farm, North Granby November 21, 2010 Sometimes Hoang just wants to go for a ride. Since gas costs money and it’s really never a good idea to “just drive,” I take the time to plot a route and hit some CTMQ-worthy spots along the way. It had been a while … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails Tagged With: CT Cheese Trail, Damian, Farms, Granby, Hoang

M&K Dairy – Ladies of Levita Road (Closed)

March 15, 2011 by Steve 2 Comments

A Hard Cheese is Good to Find… M&K Dairy, Ladies of Levita Road, Lebanon March 12, 2011 This place closed in... I have no idea. Let's guess 2015. … Oh, LeviTA Road, not LeviTRA Road. Oh well. I found this tucked away dairy purveyor on only my second try. Quite frankly, if they didn’t have the name of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, CT Cheese Trail, Farms, Lebanon

Mount Tom Tower

March 7, 2011 by Steve 3 Comments

Mt. Tom Lookout Tower Morris (via Litchfield & Washington) Stone Tower (34 feet) on Mt. Tom summit (1325 feet) Since I've visited Mt. Tom for different reasons over the years, there are multiple pages... For a 2015 hike up with my sons with better pictures, go here. For a 2010 visit to the beach as well as the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites, Towers, Bridges, Forts, Tunnels, Roads, Canals, Dams, Fishways, Airports, & Ferries Tagged With: Great Views, Litchfield, Morris, Mt Tom State Park, Observation Towers, Washington

Haystack Mountain Tower

March 7, 2011 by Steve Leave a Comment

Haystack Mountain Lookout Tower Norfolk Stone Tower (34 feet) on Haystack Mountain summit (1716 feet) (For more on the hike up and the state park, Go here. This page is only about the tower.) The 34 foot high stone tower at the summit of Haystack Mountain (1716 feet above sea level) allows visitors to see Long … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites, Towers, Bridges, Forts, Tunnels, Roads, Canals, Dams, Fishways, Airports, & Ferries Tagged With: Great Views, haystack mountain state park, Norfolk, Observation Towers

Trinity College Squash

February 28, 2011 by Steve 1 Comment

Squashing! A Day with the Trinity Squash Men's Team Hartford Simply put, squash is the worst name for a sport. Worse than ping-pong, worse than cricket and worse than cock-fighting. A squash is a vegetable. To squash something is to smoosh it. Why in the world it’s also the name of a fast-paced enclosed racket … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, collegiate sports, Damian, Hartford, Hoang, national Champions, Trinity College, wacky sports & games

Ominous Turkey Vultures

February 28, 2011 by Steve 4 Comments

Nothing to See Here, Carrion... West Hartford Just a couple pictures of the house across the street from mine. Our neighbor is not the youngest of widows, so when I happened to see a whole bunch of turkey vultures roosting on her roof (with many more in the trees next to the house), it was hard for my fears to not … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Everything Else Tagged With: Animals, Birds, West Hartford, Wild Animals

146. Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden

February 26, 2011 by Steve 1 Comment

Merry Christmas in July Bethlehem (Google Maps location) December 5, 2009 Here’s the deal: The Bellamy-Ferriday House is only open from May until October like most Connecticut Landmarks properties. But, you ask, you’re obviously there during Christmas! Yup… The house is open during Bethlehem’s Christmas … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Bethlehem, Connecticut Landmarks, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Historic Gardens, Historic Houses

St. George’s Gingerbread Village

February 25, 2011 by Steve 3 Comments

“Take, and Eat, for this is the body of Gingerbreadman” Gingerbread Village & Christmas Bazaar St. George’s Episcopal Church, Middlebury I’m not going to suggest you pack up your brood in December and drive across the state to check out this gingerbread village. Even if that’s exactly what we did. But if you are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Religious, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events Tagged With: Christmas, Damian, Hoang, Middlebury

The Peters Railroad Museum

February 23, 2011 by Steve 12 Comments

Dave Peters: CTMQ Hero Wallingford (Private Home) November 25, 2009 All aboarrrrd! All aboard the Peters Rail Road Museum bandwagon. There’s plenty of room right now, but once this page gets read and zipped around, it may be too late. Why? Because the Peters Rail Road Museum is just plain awesome. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Appointment Only, basement museums, Calvin, Damian, Free Museums, Hoang, Model Trains, private museum, Trains and Trolleys, Wallingford

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