Just a Thimbleful Thimble Islands Cruise, Branford October 2025 I must apologize up front. My wife Hoang and I took the Sea Mist Thimble Islands cruise in the middle of my self-imposed (and much enjoyed) hiatus from CTMQ. As such, I didn't approach this excursion as an "assignment" for this website but instead … [Read more...]
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National Humane Alliance Fountain
Derby and Horses... Not in Kentucky National Humane Alliance Fountain, Derby December 2024 There are websites dedicated to locating and writing about all the statuary and memorials and plaques in Connecticut. I love those sites! This is not one of those sites. There is one website dedicated to locating and … [Read more...]
Book Review: A Reverence for Wood
All Things Wood are Good A Reverence for Wood, Eric Sloane (1965) Look, man, I'm going to keep this review very short. If you're familiar with Eric Sloane's books, you almost surely love Eric Sloane books. If you're not, you can go read my longer review of his A Museum of Early American Tools published a year … [Read more...]
Devil’s Jump
Might as Well Jump! Jump! Devil's Jump, Derby December 2024 Here I am again... the guy slowly driving through a cemetery, past a burial service, looking for a place called Devil's Jump. Cemetery roads are notoriously maze-like, perhaps I'll just stop to ask someone directions to the place where Satan hangs … [Read more...]
King Philip’s Caves
King Fillup the Life Star King Philip's Caves, Simsbury November 2024 Don't do this. Seriously, local search and rescue teams are tired of dragging broken bodies from this area. So many broken bodies over the years that they have put a Life Star landing pad as close to future broken bodies as … [Read more...]
The Colebrook Store (Closed)
Colesing the Brook The Colebrook Store, Colebrook July 2024 The store closed at the end of 2024... but has closed and re-opened a few times this century. Keep me updated. Not familiar with Colebrook, Connecticut? Let me introduce you to the town's bustling center: You've got your historical society museum … [Read more...]
Simsbury Free Library
Eno's Traffic Simsbury Free Library, Simsbury November 2024 Connecticut museum visit #540. Funny story: I visited this library within a week or two of visiting another unique library in New Haven. There was no question in my brain that that library can be called a museum. But this one in Simsbury? I waffled. I … [Read more...]
Book Review: A Museum of Early American Tools
Toolin' Along A Museum of Early American Tools, Eric Sloane (1964) Connecticut museum visit #541. This is a first. 541 Connecticut museums into this decades-long project and I'm calling a book I just read a museum. Which is ridiculous. Absurd. Ludicrous. The book was written by Eric Sloane, one of … [Read more...]
Meadowood
I, Too, Have a Dream... But No Answers Meadowood, Simsbury November 2024 I try, with varied success, to be fairly politically neutral on this site. And I will continue to try on this page about some old tobacco barns in a farmed field in northern Simsbury as well. Mostly because I honestly don't know where I'd … [Read more...]
Hell Hole
Aw. I Think Simsbury is Nice! Hell Hole, Simsbury This page is a great example of who I am at my deepest core... for better or for worse. And I won't even burden you with how far down the Satanic rabbit hole I went just now either. Okay, so, yeah. I try to find all these places around the state named for the … [Read more...]