Eno's Traffic Simsbury Free Library, Simsbury November 2024 Connecticut museum visit #540. Funny story: I visited this library within a week or two of visiting another unique library in New Haven. There was no question in my brain that that library can be called a museum. But this one in Simsbury? I waffled. I … [Read more...]
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Book Review: A Museum of Early American Tools
Toolin' Along A Museum of Early American Tools, Eric Sloane (1964) Connecticut museum visit #541. This is a first. 541 Connecticut museums into this decades-long project and I'm calling a book I just read a museum. Which is ridiculous. Absurd. Ludicrous. The book was written by Eric Sloane, one of … [Read more...]
Founders League Private Prep School Museums
Fahncy Founders League Private Prep School Museums, Various Towns This page is only about the 9 Connecticut schools in The Founders Athletic League. There are many other schools - boarding, prep, and public - around the state with museums. You can blame this page on my very specific, very undiagnosed, very … [Read more...]
Rimmon School House (Closed)
Rimmon Job Rimmon School House, Beacon Falls November 2024 Y'know, this was never a museum and I'm 99% sure it will never be a museum, but here it is, what I'm calling Connecticut museum visit #531. Look, I get it. You think I'm just padding my museum visit stats. Fine. But do you really think that a guy … [Read more...]
The Ethel Walker School Interactive Museum
Community Standards The Ethel Walker School Interactive Museum, Simsbury November 2024 Connecticut museum visit #537. Long time readers know of my fascination with Connecticut's boarding school scene. (This is currently even more fascinating to me as my 8th grader is getting looks from some because of the … [Read more...]
Phelps Tavern Museum & Homestead
I Got Phelps'd Up Simsbury Historical Society, Simsbury November 2024 Connecticut museum visit #536. If you're wanting to read about all of the Simsbury Historical Society buildings and exhibits, you've landed on the fourth of four pages about them, but the ordering doesn't matter. The Simsbury Historical Society … [Read more...]
Meeting House, Phelps Barn, Carriage House & Ice House
It's 1993 and You're Having an Ice House at Carriage House... Simsbury Historical Society, Simsbury November 2024 Connecticut museum visit #535. If you're wanting to read about all of the Simsbury Historical Society buildings and exhibits, you've landed on the third of four pages about them, but the ordering … [Read more...]
1790 School House, Probate Court, Blacksmith Shop, & Hendrick Cottage
"House, Court, Shop, Cottage" Simsbury Historical Society, Simsbury November 2024 Connecticut museum visit #534. If you're wanting to read about all of the Simsbury Historical Society buildings and exhibits, you've landed on the second of four pages about them, but the ordering doesn't matter. The Simsbury … [Read more...]
Ellsworth Visitor’s Center, Ensign-Bickford Exhibition, & Wigwam
An Explosive Start... Simsbury Historical Society, Simsbury November 2024 Connecticut museum visit #533. If you're wanting to read about all of the Simsbury Historical Society buildings and exhibits, you've landed on the first of four pages about them, but the ordering doesn't matter. The Simsbury Historical … [Read more...]
Quinnipiac Dawnland Museum
It Just Dawned on Me... Quinnipiac Dawnland Museum, Guilford (Google Maps location) September 2012 & October 2024 I revisited the Dawnland Collection in 2024 as it is now part of the Dudley Farm Museum complex. Update at bottom. I still consider it Connecticut museum visit #238. 2012 At the time of my … [Read more...]
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