Thanks For The Memories Windsor Locks, (Google Maps location) October 29, 2017 Because I couldn't differentiate between Memorial Hall Museum and the Edward Sobatka Civil War Museum, I've combined the two but have published two separate pages. Memorial Hall is a striking building, right in the center of Windsor … [Read more...]
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ARRL Heritage Museum
Go Ahead, Ham it Up Newington (Google Maps location) August 18, 2016 Hoo boy. Here's a museum that I'm afraid I don't know much about. I clearly visited it. I clearly spent a good amount of time there. And I was clearly welcomed by the kind folks in Newington: Awwww *blushing*. That was very sweet. You … [Read more...]
Powder Hollow Brewery Middletown
Hollow Thoughts Powder Hollow Brewing Company, Middletown May 2022 If you want to read a page on this website that shows you that I know nothing, this is the page for you. Or, looking at it differently, if you want to read a page on this website that shows the 21st century "craft beer" consumer focuses on … [Read more...]
Welles-Shipman-Ward House
Welles-Shipman-Wow Glastonbury (Google Maps location) June 2016 Welles, Welles, Welles. Another historic house museum in another Connecticut River town. Welles, Shipman, Ward... Except... except this time I had Damian with me and the docent at the house museum was magical. I wound up taking videos during my … [Read more...]
The Museum of Fife and Drum
I'm a Yankee Doodle Ding-Dong Essex (Google Maps location) June 2016 Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum... Come to the Museum of Fife and Drum. So I did on Connecticut Open House Day 2016. I knew that one of the oldest, and supposedly the largest, musters occurs each year in Deep River, right next door to … [Read more...]
Old Mystic History Center/Indian and Colonial Research Center
That Old Mystic Mystery Stonington (Google Maps location) June 2016 I know I whine about "Mystic" from a geography standpoint too much. I'm sorry. I'm going to do it again because this tiny little building exemplifies the whole Mystic, Old Mystic, Stonington, Groton thing beautifully. It is located at 39 … [Read more...]
West Hartford Art League Galleries
Don't Mind Me, I'm Getting VerKlimpt West Hartford (Google Maps location) April 2017 & 2018 As a resident of West Hartford I've always sort of felt that out arts scene is a bit lacking. For such a "liberal" and "wealthy" town (neither of which holds entirely true), you'd think we'd have a thriving community with a … [Read more...]
The Norfeldt Kindergarten Museum
This is My Site and My Son, So There West Hartford May 4, 2017 Warning: This is a vanity post. I am writing this for me and my family, not any of you. It's not the first and it won't be the last. And I don't care. I deserve to be able to do such things once every five years or so. The Norfeldt Kindergarten … [Read more...]
Mystic River Historical Society & Portersville Academy
Skeletons in the Closet Groton (Google Maps location) June 2016 I know you all just love when I insist on geolocating things in either Groton or Stonington and refuse to say "Mystic." Even now, with the Mystic River Historical Society of... Mystic. Look, it's in Groton. Groton, Groton, Groton. Of course … [Read more...]
Hyland House Museum
Hy-Ho, Hy-Ho, It¹s Off to Another Museum I Go... Guilford (Google Maps location) June 2016 Any reader of this website knows that there are a lot of historic house museums in Connecticut. (And, presumably, other surrounding states as well.) When I began visiting them and writing about then long ago, I often … [Read more...]
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