What a Long Strange Trip It's Been Coles Road Brewing Company, Berlin June 2021 The married couple who own and brew at Coles Road Brewing in Berlin, Paul and Lea Marchinkoski have slowly built up and improved upon a pretty well respected little central Connecticut brewery. Sure, we have other husband and wife … [Read more...]
The Radium Girls
Not Rad Radium Girls Memorial Way Waterbury If you're ever sitting at the light at Mill and Union Streets in Waterbury - the intersection next to I-84 and the now-closed TimExpo Museum... the Easter Island Moai - you know the place. Yes. There. If you're sitting there, you may notice this small sign: And if … [Read more...]
Mortensen Sanctuary at Riverbound Farm
Horse Chestnutting Around Mortensen Sanctuary at Riverbound Farm, Cheshire September 2016 For our visit to the adjacent nature center, go here. I'm writing up these trails six or so years after walking them with Damian. I'm starting it while listening in to his annual PPT meeting. (The Planning and Placement … [Read more...]
Mystic River Historical Society & Portersville Academy
Skeletons in the Closet Groton (Google Maps location) June 2016 I know you all just love when I insist on geolocating things in either Groton or Stonington and refuse to say "Mystic." Even now, with the Mystic River Historical Society of... Mystic. Look, it's in Groton. Groton, Groton, Groton. Of course … [Read more...]
Modern Library Top 100 Books 81-90
Because They Made a List... Modern Library Top 100 Books of the 20th Century (Books 81-90) I used to think I was qualified to write actual reviews of these books. I am not. So 20 years into this effort, I've dumbed it down for the good of us all and now just write a few sentences. 90. Midnight’s Children … [Read more...]
Sichuan: Song
Sing It! Song, West Hartford April 2021 I am wholly unqualified to write this page. I know, I know... I've said this many times before on this website, and especially when it comes to writing about restaurants, and especially about cuisines about which I know nothing. I am a white man. I grew up mostly in Delaware … [Read more...]
American Crossword Puzzle Tournament
[Biblically Great (7)] AWESOME American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, Stamford April 2022 There aren't too many national championship events that happen in Connecticut. Sure, we have our UConn Huskies, but those games are never played here. I'm sure Trinity College's squash teams have won a few in Hartford, and … [Read more...]
Modern Library Top 100 Book Reviews 91-100
Because They Made a List... Modern Library Top 100 Books of the 20th Century (Books 91-100) I used to think I was qualified to write actual reviews of these books. I am not. So 20 years into this effort, I've dumbed it down for the good of us all and now just write a few sentences. 100. The Magnificent … [Read more...]
Hyland House Museum
Hy-Ho, Hy-Ho, It¹s Off to Another Museum I Go... Guilford (Google Maps location) June 2016 Any reader of this website knows that there are a lot of historic house museums in Connecticut. (And, presumably, other surrounding states as well.) When I began visiting them and writing about then long ago, I often … [Read more...]
Books & Reading Challenges
2,400 Books Note: If you found this page via a stamp from a book you grabbed from a Little Free Library, say hello in a comment or via email! Especially if you found the book outside of Connecticut! I love lists and when I turned 50 in 2022, I began more seriously reading book lists that interest me. (My wife … [Read more...]
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