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CTMQ > Articles by: Steve

Concept of Freedom Trail: Stonington

October 30, 2008 by Steve 2 Comments

Charles W. Morgan, Mystic Seaport, 75 Greenmanville Avenue I will certainly be revisiting Mystic Seaport and will have real pictures on this page at some point. Among the many displays at Mystic Seaport, renowned for its maritime village and working craftspeople, is the ship Charles W. Morgan, last of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cultural, Heritage, & Historic Trails Tagged With: Concept of Freedom Trail, CT Freedom Trail, Mystic, Nautical History, Stonington

Concept of Freedom Trail: Hartford (14 of 16)

October 30, 2008 by Steve 4 Comments

Most of the other sites are in the north end and while Main Street is safe, some of the side streets are not. Not that anyone is going to go on a walking tour of these sites, other than me. Let's get to it. 1. Soldiers and Sailors Monument, Hartford Bushnell Park/State Capitol The Soldiers and Sailors … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cultural, Heritage, & Historic Trails Tagged With: Cemeteries, Concept of Freedom Trail, CT Freedom Trail, Hartford, Remembrances

Concept of Freedom Trail: Plainville

October 30, 2008 by Steve 1 Comment

The Freedom Trail folks updated and released a great new website in February 2011. They cleared up a bunch of confusing entries and added info where info needed to be added. But they dropped the ball here, and I don't know why. They combined this first entry (the house) and the third one (the cemetery) even … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cultural, Heritage, & Historic Trails Tagged With: Concept of Freedom Trail, CT Freedom Trail, Plainville

Concept of Freedom Trail: Waterbury

October 30, 2008 by Steve 2 Comments

Hopkins Street Center, Waterbury 34 Hopkins Street Located at the corner of Hopkins and Pearl Streets, this building was once known as the Pearl Street Neighborhood House. It served as a settlement house for Waterbury's African American community, particularly migrants arriving from the South after the First World … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cultural, Heritage, & Historic Trails Tagged With: Concept of Freedom Trail, CT Freedom Trail, Waterbury

Brookside Farm Museum

October 23, 2008 by Steve 2 Comments

You'll Always Be the Thomas Avery House To Me... You'll Always Be the Smith-Harris House To Me... You'll Always Be The Brookside Farm Museum To Me East Lyme (Google Maps Location) June 2008 In 2018, The Smith-Harris House became the Brookside Farm Museum, with the tagline "Cultivating the Story: Avery, Smith and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: East Lyme, historic house museums, Historic Houses, Town History

Wolcott/Walcott Trail

October 22, 2008 by Steve 3 Comments

But I'm nowhere near Wolcott! Torrington, 2.5 Miles (plus .5 mile connector trail), solo September 13, 2008 I revisited half of this trail with my sons in March of 2016 as part of the DEEP's Sky's the Limit Challenge. Totally different trail experience here. Let's talk about the incongruously named Wolcott … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CFPA Hikes, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites Tagged With: Blue Trails Challenge, burr pond state park, paugnut state forest, Torrington

Somers Historical Society Museum

October 21, 2008 by Steve 7 Comments

Somerstime, and the Livin' is Easy Somers (Google Maps Location) June 2008 CT Museum visit #62. 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 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Free Museums, Somers, Town History

Priam Vineyards

October 20, 2008 by Steve 1 Comment

Priam and Proper Priam Vineyards, Colchester October 18, 2008 After two stops at South Glastonbury sites, Damian was being so good we decided to continue down Route 2 and press our luck. (As you can imagine, I always have a contingency and/or extra side trip plan in my back pocket on all of our adventures.) … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Wineries Tagged With: Colchester, Hoang

McLean Game Refuge (Western Region)

October 20, 2008 by Steve 13 Comments

Great Hike? Or Greatest Hike? McLean Game Refuge (West), Simsbury & Granby October 2008 Note that this was written in 2008 and you're only getting tiny picture formats. Also, much has changed at McLean since that time. New Trails, retired trails, new trail blazing, and new attitude towards connecting trails. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CFPA Hikes, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles Tagged With: BEARS!, Blue Trails Challenge, Granby, McLean Game Refuge, National Natural Landmarks, Simsbury

The Old Cider Mill

October 19, 2008 by Steve 16 Comments

Damian Sat Down Be-Cider and Drank The Old Cider Mill, Glastonbury October 18, 2008 I wondered whether this was a CTMQ-worthy site for a day and then hesitantly decided it was. Information on not-so-creatively named The Old Cider Mill is lacking. There's this, from the Glastonbury town website: The oldest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Superlatives Tagged With: Animals, Damian, Dubious Claims, Farms, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Glastonbury

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