Ginning Up Excitement, to Cotton Favor Hamden (Google Maps location) December 2014 & November 2017 This museum is located in one of those awesome areas in Connecticut where an invested person could spend a lot of time. Edgerton Park, all the East Rock Trails, East Rock Brewing... Yale is just a few blocks south. … [Read more...]
Smith Tree Farm Trails
I Give a Hoot About These Places Canton Land Conservation Trust, Canton & Barkhamsted August 2021 In case you were unaware, there are some hills in northwest Canton. One of the bigger hills is Ratlum Mountain. There are several hills just to the west of Ratlum: the one where Ski Sundown is located, and the two … [Read more...]
NHL: USS Nautilus
CT National Historic Landmark USS Nautilus Groton Naming ships Nautilus goes back to Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. I loved that story as a kid and loved reading it with my son again a few years ago. Even so, when I hear Nautilus, I now think of Connecticut's own special naval submarine, … [Read more...]
NHL: Litchfield Historic District
CT National Historic Landmark Litchfield Historic District Litchfield Ugh. Another "Historic District." There are six of these bad boys in Connecticut and they are very difficult to pin down and write about in any meaningful way. Litchfield's, as with a few of the others, has several museums swept up into the … [Read more...]
NHL: Harriet Beecher Stowe House
CT National Historic Landmark Harriet Beecher Stowe House Hartford The Harriet Beecher Stowe House is very deserving of its landmark status, but I must mention that it also appears on a few other "trails" and such in Connecticut. It is part of the CT Women's Heritage Trail, The CT Underground Railroad Trail, and … [Read more...]
NHL: Frederic Remington House
CT National Historic Landmark Frederic Remington House Ridgefield Sometimes I have nothing more than an address, a hope, and a dream when I go in search of something for this website. Such was the case when my wife and I spent a day exploring southwestern Connecticut. We went to important things like the Weir Farm … [Read more...]
NHL: Bush-Holley House
CT National Historic Landmark Bush-Holley House Greenwich The Bush-Holley House is very deserving of its landmark status, but I must mention that it also appears on a few other "trails" and such in Connecticut. It is part of the CT Women's Heritage Trail and the CT Art Trail. It is also a museum, of course, and … [Read more...]
NHL: Hill-Stead
CT National Historic Landmark Hill-Stead Farmington Hill-Stead is very deserving of its landmark status, but I must mention that it also appears on a few other "trails" and such in Connecticut. It is part of the CT Women's Heritage Trail, the CT Art Trail, and features a CT Historic Garden. It is a museum, of … [Read more...]
NHL: Sabino
CT National Historic Landmark The Sabino Stonington I believe I'm supposed to italicize Sabino because I think that's how boats are to be written about. However, in my reading, I've seen SABINO and I've seen "Sabino." So I don't really know. What I do know is that the Sabino is a small steamboat that is still … [Read more...]
NHL: Portland Brownstone Quarries
CT National Historic Landmark Portland Brownstone Quarries Portland Many of us Connecticut residents who hit the museum circuit have heard apocryphal stories about Portland brownstone being pretty much the most important building material of the 19th century. Or something like that. While that's not remotely true, … [Read more...]
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