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Sherwood Island State Park Intro

October 14, 2010 by Steve Leave a Comment

Sherwood Island State Park Westport I know it says "intro" above, but this page is more of an "intro and long-winded history" of Sherwood Island State Park. And that's fine, right? If you're looking for something specific though, perhaps these other pages I wrote will help: Sherwood Island Trails Sherwood … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Geography, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites Tagged With: Beach, Connecticut Art Trail, Damian, Dubious Claims, Hoang, Islands, Long Island Sound, Sherwood Island State Park, Swimming, Westport

Haystack Mountain State Park

October 14, 2010 by Steve 2 Comments

Haystack Mountain State Park Norfolk October 2010 [There are other Haystack Mountain pages if you're interested in more.] One way in which I may differ from you: After a somewhat difficult hike out in the Catskills and a two-plus hour drive back towards home, I decided on a whim to climb another mountain. Why … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites Tagged With: haystack mountain state park, Norfolk, Observation Towers

The Golden Age of Trucking Museum (Closed)

September 23, 2010 by Steve 8 Comments

The Golden Age… Those Were the Days… Middlebury July 10, 2010 CT Museum Visit #173, just before it closed in July of 2010. This is a terrible writing assignment. What should be a fun museum report is now a eulogy. Worse, I knew I’d be faced with this situation even before I visited the Golden Age of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, Superlatives Tagged With: Cars and Trucks, Closed/Gone/Former, Damian, Defunct Museums, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Hoang, Middlebury

URR Trail: Wilton

September 19, 2010 by Steve Leave a Comment

The Ovals 36 Seeley Road This house is HUGE - but this is the best I could do for a picture, as it's a private residence. From Wilton's town website: During the years prior to the Civil War, the antislavery movement was strong in town, and Wilton served as one of the stops on the Underground Railroad, a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cultural, Heritage, & Historic Trails Tagged With: CT Freedom Trail, Underground Railroad Trail, Wilton

NHL: Grove Street Cemetery

August 17, 2010 by Steve Leave a Comment

CT National Historic Landmark Grove Street Cemetery 227 Grove Street, New Haven If you’re really into National Historic Landmarks of Connecticut and you’re going through all 60+ one-by-one, settle in; for this is merely the first of 9 in New Haven. To put that in perspective, New Haven represents but 0.6% of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, National "Stuff", Religion, Cemeteries, Monuments, Statuary, Greens, & Outdoor Sculpture & Art Tagged With: Amistad Trail, Cemeteries, CT Freedom Trail, National Historic Landmarks, New Haven

NHL: Stephen Mather House

August 16, 2010 by Steve 7 Comments

Stephen Tyng Mather House CT National Historic Landmark 19 Stephen Mather Road, Darien As Hoang knows all too painfully well and many of you probably assume, a drive across Connecticut to a completely non-CTMQ event simply must include at least one quick little CTMQ-something. Otherwise, it just wouldn’t be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, National "Stuff" Tagged With: Darien, Historic Houses, National Historic Landmarks

160. Silverman’s Animal Farm

August 14, 2010 by Steve 1 Comment

Go Easton Young Man Easton (Google Maps location) April 10, 2010 For some unknown reason, I originally had this place written up as a non-museum and filed it away in the hinterlands of CTMQ. I don't know what I was thinking as this place (for our purposes) is a great little zoo (of sorts) to take your kids too. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Museums Tagged With: Animals, Birds, Damian, Easton, Farms, Hoang, Not Really a Museum Museum, Zoos

164. Bruce Museum

August 13, 2010 by Steve 1 Comment

I’m Not Booing, I’m Saying “Bruuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuuce!” Greenwich (Google Maps location) May 8, 2010 2019 Update: The Bruce is undergoing a major renovation, so a revisit is in order. The Bruce Museum is a Connecticut Art Trail site. There’s an old comment on some page here on CTMQ where someone named … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cultural, Heritage, & Historic Trails, Museums Tagged With: "See Before you die" list, Art, Connecticut Art Trail, CT Dino Trail, Dinosaurs, Greenwich, Natural History

Cushman Farms

August 12, 2010 by Steve Leave a Comment

Not the Cushiest Job in the World Cushman Farm, North Franklin August 7, 2010 Cushman Farm is part of the wonderful Farmer’s Cow. The Farmer’s Cow is a group of six Connecticut family dairy farms working for the future of our families and dairy businesses. They produce milk, half and half, eggs and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Everything Else Tagged With: Animals, Damian, Farmers Cow, Farms, Franklin, Hoang

Dog Rock v.Preston

August 10, 2010 by Steve 5 Comments

My Dogged Pursuit Continues Dog Rock, Preston August 7, 2010 While tooling down Route 165 into Preston City, Hoang noted how cute this painted rock was. Hoang likes dogs. Her family Chihuahua had just died a couple days ago. Don’t feel too badly; BeauBeau was N-I-N-E-T-E-E-N years old and quite frankly, looked … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Everything Else Tagged With: Animals, Art, Painted Rocks, Preston

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