GMMMorning Middletown! Greater Middletown Military Museum, Middletown December 2023 Connecticut museum visit #515. As you read this page, keep in mind that this large museum has plans to expand quite a bit. Once funding is secured - largely through private donations and not just grants like the more well known … [Read more...]
Mystic River Chocolate Cafe
Cacao Ka-Ching! Mystic River Chocolate Cafe, Groton August 2024 Do you like chocolate? Do you like really expensive high-quality chocolate? The kind where you talk about single-sourcing and Ecuadorian vs. Nicaraguan cacao? Well, then hit up my man Fernando at Chokaico at one of his pop-up events. Or, … [Read more...]
Mill Woods Park
Run of the Mill Stuff? Mill Woods Park, Wethersfield October 2024 Several years ago I found myself at Mill Woods Park to watch my son's mighty West Hartford travel soccer team crush the Wethersfield boys. I remember that day not for the soccer game, but because it was the first time I had an Italian chicken cutlet … [Read more...]
Dividend Pond Falls
Pays Dividends Dividend Pond Falls, Rocky Hill December 2023 Everyone loves a nice waterfall that doesn't require effort to enjoy, right? We have several in Connecticut, and some are near interstate highways in the center of the state. Dividend Pond Falls in Rocky Hill checks all those boxes. You just park, … [Read more...]
Hilltop Farm Creamery
This Page Amounts to a Hilltop o'Beans Hilltop Farm Creamery, Suffield October 2024 It wasn't until after I visited and written half this page that I learned this place does not make its own ice cream. Sad face emoji. Hilltop Farm was built by Indian Motorcycle co-founder, George Hendee, starting in 1913, as a … [Read more...]
Sandy Brook Trail
That Colebrook Magic Colebrook Land Conservancy's Sandy Brook Trail, Colebrook September 2024 Man, Colebrook is a pretty town. And making the drive from Peoples State Forest in Barkhamsted to this parcel of woods in Colebrook is quite the drive. Skinny roads that wind along mountain streams for miles... I know a … [Read more...]
Rocky Hill Fire Museum
A Rocky Future? Rocky Hill Fire Museum, Rocky Hill (Google Maps location) October 2024 Connecticut museum visit #525. There it is. Prominently standing tall in front of Rocky Hill's library, Congregational church, senior center, Academy Hall Museum, and town hall. Everyone who passes nearby sees it: The Rocky … [Read more...]
Pleasant Valley Drive-In (Closed)
Pleasant Valley Drive Right On By Pleasant Valley Drive-In, Barkhamsted October 2024 The drive-in closed in 2022. I listed Connecticut's few drive-ins years ago. This was the one that most interested me simply because it's nowhere near any sort of population center. It's in Pleasant Valley. Where's Pleasant … [Read more...]
Pleasant Valley Post Office
So Pleasant (Valley) Pleasant Valley Post Office, Barkhamsted Of all the place names in Connecticut, Pleasant Valley may be one of my favorites. It's just so... so accurate. The southern section of Barkhamsted along the Farmington River is not only a valley, it is very pleasant. It's sylvan and quaint. A large … [Read more...]
Riverton Field Baby Green Monster
Baby Green Monster Riverton Little League Field, Barkhamsted I can find nothing online about this, but I thought it was just the cutest thing. I'm not a Red Sox fan - heck, I've never even watched a full baseball game in my life - but I can appreciate what some fan/dad has done here in the beautiful Riverton … [Read more...]
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