Beauty! History! Granby! Katan-Ensor & Old Messenger Road Preserves, Granby September 2022 I can't pretend to know how active every land trust in Connecticut is. I'm sure there are several protecting new parcels, clearing and blazing new trails as I write. But I swear, the "competition" between the Granby Land … [Read more...]
The Singing Bridge
"Tra LAAA Blah" The Singing Bridge Westbrook A Singing Bridge" is usually any bridge with a steel grid deck. These used to be fairly prevalent, but most have been paved over for health and safety reasons. Surely many of you remember the old Sikorsky Bridge on Route 15 across the Housatonic River down in … [Read more...]
Stony Creek Brewery
From Heron Out... Stony Creek Brewery, Branford October 2015 & August 2022 At the end of 2024, Stony Creek has stopped brewing and is just a bar. Very strong rumors of their demise and a massive lien/lawsuit against them from their creditor tells me they won't last much longer... Stony Creek has existed in some … [Read more...]
Spring Park
Boing-Boing! Spring Park, Windsor Locks September 2022 There I was, smugly proud of myself for "completing" the town of Windsor Locks. All museums and places of interest and trails done and written up. After telling the world, I was almost immediately reminded why I try to always put "completed" in quotation … [Read more...]
Weir Farm National Historical Park
First Impressions Are Everything Wilton & Ridgefield (Google Maps location) May 25, 2017 Weir Farm is a lot of things beyond being "just" a museum. It was Connecticut's only National Park(ish) for years and years until Coltsville in Hartford got its NHP designation more recently - but that still has a long way to … [Read more...]
Ethel Walker Woods and Town Forest
We Can All Be Ethel Walkers Ethel Walker Woods and Town Forest, Simsbury September 2022 This is a weird one for me. I took the boys here several years ago and only have vague recollections of what happened. We didn't get too far, but I don't know if that was because of Damian, Calvin, me, or a combination thereof. … [Read more...]
East Haddam Swing Bridge
Swing Out Sister East Haddam Swing Bridge Haddam & East Haddam The good pictures on this page were stolen from Frank DiNardi's Instagram account. I don't know him. His photography is excellent. I imagine that having to use the East Haddam Swing Bridge on a regular basis could be frustrating. Although I don't … [Read more...]
Windsor Locks: Complete!
Windsor Locks: Complete! Bobby V's Here is the CTMQ Guide to Windsor Locks with my list and stories about everything I’ve done there! After a decade of writing CTMQ, I decided to try to “complete” towns. In that decade of traveling and writing, I had already done a lot of stuff in many of our towns already. … [Read more...]
Castle Hill Chocolate
Sheeran Delights Castle Hill Chocolate, Newtown August 2022 I'm on my way Driving at 90 down those country lanes Singing to Tiny Dancer And I miss the way you make me feel, and it's real When we watched the sunset over the castle on the hill (hill) Over the castle on the hill (hill) Over the castle on the … [Read more...]
Goodspeed Opera House
Swingin' Good Time East Haddam (Google Maps location) June 10, 2017 Iconic. From a national view, there are very few things that are truly iconic in Connecticut. Yale, New Haven pizza, Mark Twain's House, Mystic Seaport maybe... insurance? The Whalers logo for sure. Um, Greenwich wealth? CTMQ? But if … [Read more...]
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