Purple Martins Majesty Smith-Hubbell Wildlife Refuge and Bird Sanctuary and Tower, Milford August 2021 As most readers know, every hike (and "hike") I feature on CTMQ isn't great. Sometimes my hiking partner is a drag, sometimes the weather is a bummer, and sometimes the hike itself isn't impressive. … [Read more...]
Pumpkin Delight Road & School
Pump(kin) Up The Jam! Pumpkin Delight Road & School, Milford Please be assured that I've scoured the internet for a whole two minutes trying to find out why this road is called Pumpkin Delight Road. I must assume the road was named before the school and that the school was named because of the road it's near. … [Read more...]
CT Roadside Sign Gallery
Signs, Signs, Everywhere is signs Connecticut Roadside Sign Gallery I'm not sure how far I'll take this page, especially seeing as I didn't begin it until late 2021. That's 15 years of passing by dopey signs and not thinking to capture them for posterity. Note: I certainly have been capturing all the ET Progressive … [Read more...]
Sub Way
Underwater Franchisees? Sub Way and Subway, Milford For whatever reason, people are often surprised that Subway is a Connecticut Company. Why? Every company has to start somewhere. Maybe because in Connecticut sub sandwiches on sub rolls are called grinders on grinder rolls. (And where I grew up, they're hoagies on … [Read more...]
Ratlum Mountain Fire Tower (Private)
Awww, Rats(lums)! Ratlum Mountain Fire Tower (Private), Canton August 2021 Like everyone, I'm sure, I've wistfully stared up at the Ratlum Mountain tower from the red light on Route 44 in the center of New Hartford for decades. So tall! So visible! So exciting! So... private. Always one to respect privacy … [Read more...]
Stevenson Dam & Bridge
Bridge Over Troubled... Dam? Route 34 and The Stevenson Dam Monroe & Oxford Stop me if you've heard this one before: "the Stevenson Dam is one of only two dams in the country that has a public road over the top." Wait. That's ridiculous, even if I've seen it in print. The actual claim is more specific: "the … [Read more...]
Klan Drive
OKKKaaaayyy... Klan Drive, Wolcott I'm sure there's a perfectly benign explanation for Klan Drive in Wolcott. Googling "Klan" does not provide this, however. In fact, deep Googling only makes the case that "Klan" is and always was what you associate the word with. So maybe Wolcott's Klan Drive is named … [Read more...]
Nepaug Dam & Reservoir Trails
Damn! Nepaug Dam & Reservoir Trails, Burlington, Canton, & New Hartford December 2020 My favorite fact about this property is that the main paved path here used to be a road open to vehicular traffic. I don't know when this was changed, but I'm pretty sure it was in my lifetime. Yes, Torrington Avenue used to veer … [Read more...]
Mystic River Bascule Bridge
BasCOOL Bridge, Am I Right? Mystic River Bascule Bridge, Stonington/Groton The Argia Cruise no longer travels under the bridge. Who among us hasn't been delayed and annoyed by the Mystic River Bridge? Anyone? Didn't think so. Who among us hasn't been fascinated by watching the massive concrete blocks force … [Read more...]
R. Suttmiller Drive
Should be R. Buttmiller Drive R. Suttmiller Drive, Canton I don't know how many other "water pollution control" facilities have named roads for the very short, very specific stretch of asphalt that allows vehicles to access what I like to call "the doody tanks." Is Canton's R. Suttmiller Drive unique? Probably. … [Read more...]
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