Connecticut's Superlatives Connecticut has an amazing array of superlatives (firsts, oldests, tallests, largest, longests, onlies, and smallests) to its credit. You'll find these all over the site in the museum reports and elsewhere. Capturing them all on this page is an impossible task, so bear with me. Some … [Read more...]
Italian Chicken Cutlet Grinder at Wethersfield Pizza House
Ridiculous. Just Ridiculous. Wethersfield Pizza House, Wethersfield September 2021 A couple years ago I was talking with my friend about life and parenting and kids and sports. My young son Calvin was beginning to show a greater interest in soccer and I was looking ahead at what that would me for my own selfish … [Read more...]
The Kensington Soldiers’ Monument
The Berlin Tall The Oldest US Civil War Monument, Berlin Here we are again, at another "oldest in the US" that isn't truly totally verifiable. Although in the case of the Kensington Soldiers' Monument in Berlin, the locals did convince the federal whomevers at the National Register of Historic Places that the claim … [Read more...]
NHL: USS Nautilus
CT National Historic Landmark USS Nautilus Groton Naming ships Nautilus goes back to Jules Verne's Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Sea. I loved that story as a kid and loved reading it with my son again a few years ago. Even so, when I hear Nautilus, I now think of Connecticut's own special naval submarine, … [Read more...]
The Blue Oar
Eat Here... Oar Else The Blue Oar, Haddam July 2021 Lists and listicles are as much of an epidemic as the COVID pandemic. These lazy lists are endemic across online publications these days. I mostly ignore all of them - especially any about "Best Connecticut bloggers" or whatever. CTMQ has never even been … [Read more...]
It Adventure Ropes Course
Bop It It at Jordan's Furniture, New Haven June 2019 The first thing you need to know here is that you're not allowed to have your camera (phone) with you on the course. However, I do see in the FAQ that chest-mounted GoPros are permissible. I do not have a chest-mounted GoPro. The second thing to know is … [Read more...]
The Barker Character Comic and Cartoon Museum & Art Gallery
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...]
Cheney Silk Vaults
The Chene Gang The Cheney Silk Vaults Manchester I've written fairly extensively about various buildings within Manchester's Cheney Brothers Historic District and I thought I was done with it. Then Calvin and I rode the full Cheney Rail Trail which took us right into the heart of the historic mills and out to … [Read more...]
Book Review: American Cookery
American Cookery, Amelia Simmons (1796) I can be moderately proud that I've written about many, many hundreds of things for this site that previously had no internet presence. Every so often, though, I'm tasked to write about something that has been described, poked, prodded, and probed dozens of times over many … [Read more...]
O’Reilly’s Irish Gifts (Closed)
O-Oh-No-O’Reilly’s! O’Reilly’s Irish Gifts, Farmington January 2018 O'Reilly's closed in September 2019 after 22 years in business. Aye, lasses and laddies! It's time for another visit to one of my favorite types of things I visit for this website! Surely some of you are wondering, “why is Steve devoting such … [Read more...]
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