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The Barker Character Comic and Cartoon Museum & Art Gallery

April 23, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

This Place Gets Me Quite Animated Cheshire (Google Maps location) September 2014 & January 2017 Most readers know that I rarely visit the same museum twice. That's not a statement on the quality of the museums, but rather a simple function of logistics and my oh-so precious time. I've been to The Barker … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: Calvin, Cheshire, Damian, Hoang, Largests Longests Mosts Smallests and Tallests

Ninevah Falls

April 21, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Biblical! Ninevah Falls, Killingworth & Madison January 2021 I just learned that Ninevah was the largest city in the world at one time. From about 660-612 BC. I remember it from my childhood Bible studies, but for those of you without that impossibly fun background, Ninevah was located where modern day Mosul in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Everything Else, New Post Tagged With: Another Freaking Jumping Indian, killingworth, Madison, Waterfalls

Oliver Wolcott Library

April 19, 2021 by Steve 1 Comment

This Library is a Hoot Oliver Wolcott Library Litchfield I'll admit, I'm not your typical "center of Litchfield" photographer. Sure, the main block of businesses is pure New England. Everyone is drawn to the First Congregational Church and its picture book white steeple. The row of historic homes on South Street … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Cool Architecture, eliot noyes, Libraries, Litchfield, litchfield national historic district, Modern Architecture

Old Mystic Post Office

April 12, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Squeee! Ole Mystic Post Office, Stonington I was scrolling through old pictures and came across the one below that I took of the Old Mystic Post Office. I remember thinking at the time I took it, "Oh my gosh, that is just the cutest little post office in Connecticut!" Sure, there are tons of tiny post offices … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: post offices, Stonington

LEGO History Museum (Gone)

April 12, 2021 by Steve 2 Comments

Studly LEGO History Museum, Enfield August 2018 CT museum visit #400, which is cause for a celebration! This museum was dismantled in 2020. By 2026, all Enfield LEGO business and employees will have moved to Boston. Alright, here's the deal. I worked at the LEGO North American headquarters in Enfield for a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Closed/Gone/Former, denmark, Enfield, england, Other Companies and Businesses, private museum

Auerf Arm

April 8, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

"AUER!" Auerf Arm Bloomfield At the time of this writing, I've been publishing stuff on CTMQ for almost 15 years. Pretty impressive if I say so myself. Over the years I've added approximately eleventy-billion things to my pages and lists that I had not originally planned for. I'm not a big user of tags … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: auer farm, Bloomfield, Severed Limbs

Major League Soccer

April 5, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Major League Mess Toronto FC vs. Miami CF at PAWSaRF, East Hartford November 2020 "Soccer is gonna be the next big thing in the US! I swear! For real this time!" We've all been hearing this for decades. It's never going to happen to the degree some people wish, but at least a legitimate professional soccer … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, New Post, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events Tagged With: Calvin, East Hartford, professional sports, rentschler field, soccer

Book Review: The Courage of Sarah Noble

April 2, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

So Noble The Courage of Sarah Noble, Alice Dalgliesh (1952) Not being from Connecticut, I'd never heard of this book until 2021... about 40 years later than would have been the ideal target age for it. And I don't really know if Sarah Noble is very well known outside of western Connecticut - more specifically New … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Movies, People, & Stories, Everything Else, New Post Tagged With: Connecticut Books, Connecticut children's books, Connecticut Fiction books, New Milford

The Ref (1994)

March 27, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

"Mary, Gag Your Grandma" The Ref, 1994 It's a Christmas movie! It's a Connecticut movie! It's a Christmas in Connecticut movie! About... sports? No. "The Ref" has nothing at all to do with athletics unless you include hopeless family infighting as sport. And the family featured here certainly does their best to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Movies, People, & Stories, Everything Else, New Post Tagged With: Christmas, christmas movies, connecticut movies, movies

Over AndOver

March 21, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

I Can't Beat the Original Pun Over AndOver, Andover The only reason this page exists is because the people responsible for this mish-mash used furniture and upcycling artisan store and hangout named their Andover store Over AndOver. It is not a store that sells anything I'm interested in and it's not a hangout … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Andover

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