"Completing" Harwinton... Again Harwinton Land Trust: Indian Meadow November 2020 Ah, Indian Meadow. Back in 2018 when I "completed" Harwinton, this property was my bugaboo. I knew at the time that a trail was being developed here, but since it wasn't yet, I called the town "complete." Of course, if you know … [Read more...]
CTMQ’s Guide to Goshen
Everything Goshen I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Goshen CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. If I’ve … [Read more...]
Goshen’s Town Trails
Goshen's Town Trails Putting together Goshen's pages for CTMQ has been enlightening. I learned (via Wikipedia, for what that's worth) that Ivan Llendl lived here in a $25 million mansion. And one of my son's favorite authors (in elementary school), Mary Pope Osbourne lives/lived here. And Madeline L'Engle! In … [Read more...]
CTMQ’s Guide to Chester
Everything Chester I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Chester CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. If … [Read more...]
Cockaponset State Forest Intro
Cockaponset State Forest Haddam, Chester, Deep River, Killingworth, Durham, Guilford, Madison, Clinton, Westbrook, Middletown & Middlefield I listed all the towns above not because there are worthy CTMQ things do within the Cockaponset in each, but just to make the point that this is a disjointed and sprawling … [Read more...]
Grown Ups 2 (2013)
Holy Crap Grown Ups 2, 2013 I know. You have questions. And they are all valid. So I'll try to answer them. I listed this movie as a Connecticut movie because Wikipedia lists it as a "film set in Connecticut". Having suffered through it, there is no mention of the state and there are no identifiable Connecticut … [Read more...]
Hilltop Farm Nature Trail
Topping off Suffield Hilltop Farm Nature Trail, Suffield August 2020 It is perhaps premature to be writing this page now in 2020. But you know what? The glacial pace of everything at Suffield's Hilltop Barn tells me that I might as well now, because no one can be sure if and when things will be clearer. … [Read more...]
Charter Oak Greenway
Not a Showcase Charter Oak Greenway, 15.4 Miles Bolton, Manchester, East Hartford Every other "trail report" for the Charter Oak Greenway is nothing more than some mileage markers and a few comments about its hills or propensity for highway proximity. Not CTMQ. Oh, no. So sit back and prepare for a billion of my … [Read more...]
Book Review: Old Newgate Road
Old, New, and the Gate Between the Two Old Newgate Road, Keith Scribner My list of "Connecticut Books" is a late edition to the CTMQ pantheon. It's one of those lists that will never be completed in any meaningful way - both because I'm not immortal and because I'll never know of all the books that could or should … [Read more...]
Paddle Creek Beer Company (Closed)
Curieux Paddle Creek Beer Company, East Hartford October 2020 The brewery closed in September 2024. There was this weird month in late 2018 when it became clear that East Hartford's venerable Olde Burnside Brewing wasn't going to make it to 2019 and that some other guys were going to start up a new brewery in … [Read more...]
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