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Metacomet Trail: Section 6

September 5, 2007 by Steve 6 Comments

Section 6: Running Ragged Southington Road to Andrews Street, 7.3 miles July 4, 2007 Note: This page was written in 2007, so please forgive the tiny pictures. This section deserves better. If you want to start at the beginning of the trail, go the Metacomet Intro here. So far along the Metacomet Trail, Hoang … [Read more...]

Pardee-Morris House Museum

September 2, 2007 by Steve 16 Comments

Pardee Like It's 1699 New Haven Location July 21, 2007 Summer 2010 Update: The house has re-opened! This is the very rare Zombie Museum here on CTMQ; one that rose from the dead. And in fact, I'm writing this sentence in 2020 and can report that it is still open. I will, of course, revisit and re-do this page, … [Read more...]

Canton Historical Museum

September 2, 2007 by Steve 8 Comments

Let Me Axe You a Question... Collinsville Section of Canton (Google Maps Location) June 28, 2007 "...Can we get in to see the museum? No? Why not? Oh, we can? Good. Let me axe you another question - Can we take pictures here? No? Why not?" And so began one of the stranger introductions to any … [Read more...]

Everything Else

August 29, 2007 by Steve 8 Comments

Miscellanea, Curiosities and... Everything Else Welcome to the most difficult section of CTMQ to curate. It has been incorrectly titled Ephemera. It has been called Miscellanea. Then it was Curiosities. Now it's "Everything Else." The most frustrating part of this whole massive section, to me, is that there's too … [Read more...]

Metacomet Trail: Section 5

August 22, 2007 by Steve Leave a Comment

Section 5: This Hike Was All Business Edgewood Road Roadwalk, 1.4 miles June 14, 2007 Note: This page and “section” is totally ridiculous, however, the trail description is accurate. This was written in 2007, so please forgive me. If you want to start at the beginning of the trail, go the Metacomet Intro … [Read more...]

East Haddam Historical Society Museum

August 18, 2007 by Steve 7 Comments

I Haddam at Hello East Haddam (Google Maps Location) June 9, 2007 A couple years after this visit, the museum added a fairly large new wing. Perhaps I'll revisit someday when I have all my faculties. To catch y'all up, I had just visited East Haddam's Nathan Hale Schoolhouse. On the drive down to this part of … [Read more...]

Nathan Hale Schoolhouse (E. Haddam)

August 15, 2007 by Steve 7 Comments

Hale, Hale, The Gang's All Here East Haddam (Google Maps Location) June 9, 2007 There are at least four, yes four, separate and distinct museums in Connecticut honoring Nathan Hale. Two schoolhouses in which he taught (New London and East Haddam), one homestead (Coventry), and one fort (New Haven). This is all … [Read more...]

Cedar Hill Cemetery

August 14, 2007 by Steve 3 Comments

I Got My Thrill, at Cedar Hill Cedar Hill Cemetery, Hartford & Wethersfield June 9, 2007 This page does not do Cedar Hill justice. There are so many luminaries buried here and so many stunning monuments, but in 2007 I just didn't have the ability to capture it properly. Still, it's worth reading. The … [Read more...]

Pratt House Museum

July 29, 2007 by Steve 3 Comments

Another Museum To Prattle On About Essex (Google Maps Location) June 2, 2007 Flashback to October 20, 2006: Essex, CT on our way to the Connecticut River Museum; "We also passed the Pratt House, another museum in town - but it was closed." Flashback to December 10, 2006: Essex, CT on our way back to the … [Read more...]

Hawaii: Mauna Kea

July 29, 2007 by Steve Leave a Comment

Highpoint # 6 Mauna Kea, 13,796 Feet June 4, 2003 After bagging 5 northeastern highpoints in 2002, it was time for us to get a big one. I needed a good excuse to convince Hoang to go to Hawaii (let alone to a desolate, cold, Martian-like mountain top), so I started planning way back in the summer of 2001 and … [Read more...]