Not Rad Radium Girls Memorial Way Waterbury If you're ever sitting at the light at Mill and Union Streets in Waterbury - the intersection next to I-84 and the now-closed TimExpo Museum... the Easter Island Moai - you know the place. Yes. There. If you're sitting there, you may notice this small sign: And if … [Read more...]
American Crossword Puzzle Tournament
[Biblically Great (7)] AWESOME American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, Stamford April 2022 There aren't too many national championship events that happen in Connecticut. Sure, we have our UConn Huskies, but those games are never played here. I'm sure Trinity College's squash teams have won a few in Hartford, and … [Read more...]
The Battle of the Frogs
Taking a Good Ribb(itt)ing The Battle of the Frogs Windham Every so often I delve into one of Connecticut's urban legends. It must be said that when I do so, I heavily rely on those who have written about these things previously. They are often the rare pages on here where 100% of the words and thoughts aren't … [Read more...]
Dr. Chester Hunt Office
Imagine Hunting For Your Appointment Here Dr. Chester Hunt Office Windham I'd been holding onto my pictures and "story" of this building for at least a decade. I'm tired of waiting, so here we are: on the Windham Green and the cute little Dr. Chester Hunt Office building. What was I waiting for? At some … [Read more...]
Hamilton Park
Hub of Waterbury Hamilton Park, Waterbury There is a lot of history at Hamilton Park in Waterbury. History I'm not going to get too deep into at all. It's just an old town park. It doesn't really rise to the level necessary to get the full CTMQ treatment. And you won't believe this, but it also doesn't even … [Read more...]
Bartlett Arboretum & Gardens
Bart Lett's Go! Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford April 2022 One of my good friends grew up in North Stamford and over the many years of writing CTMQ, she has asked once or twice if I'd been to Bartlett Aboretum yet. She hasn't lived in the US for over a decade but this place was very close to her childhood home and I … [Read more...]
Ivoryton Playhouse
Please Tell Me They've Done "The Elephant Man" Here Essex (Google Maps location) June 2016 Connecticut is home to a slew of historic theaters. Many of them offer tours that present the buildings almost as museums - as they should. The idiom "if these walls could talk" applies to every one of these places as much … [Read more...]
ASME: Pratt & Whitney Single Crystal Turbine Blade
ASME Landmark #265 (1970) Pratt & Whitney Single Crystal Turbine Blade New England Air Museum Windsor Locks Years ago I began my page about a different American Society of Mechanical Engineers National Landmark located at The New England Air Museum thusly: In a way, this might be the hardest of the CT ASME … [Read more...]
Book Review: Those Guys Have All the Fun
Fun and Games Those Guys Have All the Fun: Inside the World of ESPN, James Andrew Miller & Tom Shales (2011) I'm exceedingly upset with myself. I read this book several years ago and because it's so long and so dense and so chock full of great Connecticut-centric nuggets, I kept putting off reviewing it. So now … [Read more...]
Hobart Welton Carriage Shed
Fictus Dolium Nullus Hobart Victory Welton Carriage Shed, Waterbury If you're the type of person that cares about the brilliant hierarchical structuring of CTMQ, you'll notice that this page falls into the "Roads and Tunnels" section of the "Towers, Bridges, Forts, Tunnels, Roads, Canals, Dams, Fishways, Airports, … [Read more...]
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