I’ve Got Lyme Art Association Disease Old Lyme (Google Maps location) May 18, 2011 It’s unfortunate that the Lymes of Connecticut (Old Lyme, Lyme and East Lyme are real towns, Hadlyme is not and is actually not even part of one of them. And while I’m stuck in this parenthetical, I might as well mention that Lyme … [Read more...]
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211. Norwich Arts Center Gallery
EnABLING Forgery Norwich (Google Maps location) May 28, 2011 Have you ever driven around downtown Norwich? Of course you have if you've ever tried the "short cut" to the casinos thinking you'd just follow route 2 through town. Ha. It's a mess - a very oddly laid out mess. As we circled to and fro around the … [Read more...]
159. Weston Woods (RIP)
How the Weston Woods Was Won Weston (Google Maps location) March 13, 2010 Update: Morton Schindel passed away in 2016 at the age of 98. This place no longer exists as we visited it, and that makes my wife and I very, very sad. We both loved meeting Mort and could have spent a week with him in Weston. His house and … [Read more...]
179. Marsh Botanical Garden Greenhouses
Not Just Marsh Plants New Haven (Google Maps location) August 4, 2010 I went to a lot of places on August 4, 2010. It was my one day per year I purposely take off from work in order to visit as many weekday-only joints and I was on the go all day. I went to a few places you wouldn't necessarily call museums, … [Read more...]
158. Stepping Stones Museum for Children
Get to Stepping! Norwalk (Google Maps location) March 13, 2010 Go to enough children's museums and they all start running together in your memory. Of course, I can’t imagine many people would go to every children's museum in the state, so in reality, there’s nothing wrong with that. Especially if they are all … [Read more...]
146. Bellamy-Ferriday House & Garden
Merry Christmas in July Bethlehem (Google Maps location) December 5, 2009 Here’s the deal: The Bellamy-Ferriday House is only open from May until October like most Connecticut Landmarks properties. But, you ask, you’re obviously there during Christmas! Yup… The house is open during Bethlehem’s Christmas … [Read more...]
The Peters Railroad Museum
Dave Peters: CTMQ Hero Wallingford (Private Home) November 25, 2009 All aboarrrrd! All aboard the Peters Rail Road Museum bandwagon. There’s plenty of room right now, but once this page gets read and zipped around, it may be too late. Why? Because the Peters Rail Road Museum is just plain awesome. … [Read more...]
Connecticut Science Center
Too Big to Fail Hartford (Google Maps location) October 2009 Connecticut Museum Visit #142. Hm. Um. Uh-huh. Here in Connecticut there are only a few gigantor museums, so my experience thus far in blogging about them is scant. And I’m scared. Scared for a couple reasons, really… One, the sheer size and … [Read more...]
140. White Memorial Conservation Center Nature Museum
Stuff White People Like Litchfield (Google Maps location) October 3, 2009 Yet again, I’m forced to remind anyone reading this that there are plenty of things to do in Connecticut, year-round - and with kids. When people think of Litchfield, they almost universally think of the town green, the beautiful church … [Read more...]
PhotoSynthesis Gallery
Down the Dark Alleys of Manchester* Manchester (Google Maps location) November 20, 2010 *Photosynthesis moved to East Hartford in 2018. See update at bottom! What a day. A surprise visit from EdHill, a hastily thrown together itinerary, A fairly well-behaved Damian, the largest serviceberry tree in America, … [Read more...]
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