Play Well August 2018 I celebrated my 100th Connecticut museum with cake at home with family. 200 was an overnight at Foxwoods. 300? The Upscale Bernard's restaurant in Ridgefield. How would I ever outdo myself at 400? Oh, I know! At work! How exciting. I thought it would be kind of neat. I worked at … [Read more...]
Latest Museum Visits Below...
Palestine Museum US
Can’t We All Just Be Pals? Woodbridge, (Google Maps location) May 2018 I have very proud American Jewish friends and very proud Israeli friends. I know at least a few of them have very, very strong opinions on Palestinian statehood and the decades of violence some have used to try to achieve it. I know … [Read more...]
Leroy Anderson House
LEEROOOOYYY!!!!! anderson Woodbury, (Google Maps location) June 2018 Woodbury is a quirky little town. Home of America's first Episcopal Bishop and... Rob Zombie. Home of Connecticut's Antiques Central and... the modernist Hogpen Hill Farms Sculpture Park. Home of a little pewter museum and... a weirdo little zoo. … [Read more...]
US Coast Guard Museum
No Coasting for Me New London, (Google Maps location) May 2018 Assuming the long-delayed, much debated National Coast Guard Museum will open someday up the road in New London, I'll go ahead and guess this smaller, obviously older museum will close. That's a bit of a bummer, because I rather like this plucky little … [Read more...]
Old Tolland County Jail & Museum
Solitary Refinement Tolland, (Google Maps location) July 15, 2018 Oh man. Here we are again... at another large town history museum! Or should I say "museums?" While the Tolland Historical Society bills this place as the "Old Tolland County Jail & Museum," it really is two distinctly separate entities... under one … [Read more...]
Southington Community Cultural Arts Center
This Place is So... So... SoCCAC! Southington, (Google Maps location) March 24, 2018 Every town in Connecticut with a population over 40,000 should have a place like the Southington Community Cultural Arts Center. Many do, of course, but not enough. The arts are integral to a healthy society, and - what's that? … [Read more...]
Mansfield Historical Society Museum
Another Feather in My Cap Mansfield (Google Maps location) July 22, 2018 This little town little town history museum is quite nice. But I've got to tell you, before visiting, I think the most "exciting" part of it for me was that CFPA's Nipmuck Trail goes right through it. Just like along the Appalachian Trail in … [Read more...]
Hill-Stead Museum
Pretty as a Picture... I assume Farmington (Google Maps location) July 2018 Hill-Stead is... a lot. It is a National Historic Landmark, and is also part of the CT Women's Heritage Trail, the CT Art Trail, and features a CT Historic Garden. It is a museum, of course, and there are also trails to hike around the … [Read more...]
Southington Historical Center
Typical Nuts and Bolts Town History Museum Southington, (Google Maps location) March 24, 2018 Southington is a nice town. Nothing wrong with it at all. It has a nice mix of development and forests and fields. It's famous for its apple orchards. Quick access to interstates. An excellent historical society. But for … [Read more...]
Weir Farm National Historical Park
First Impressions Are Everything Wilton & Ridgefield (Google Maps location) May 25, 2017 Weir Farm is a lot of things beyond being "just" a museum. It was Connecticut's only National Park(ish) for years and years until Coltsville in Hartford got its NHP designation more recently - but that still has a long way to … [Read more...]
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