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CTMQ's Guide to Suffield

Leatherman’s Cave via Park Road

December 15, 2014 by Steve 1 Comment

"'Leathahman' Slept in Here, WHAT?!” Leatherman's Cave via Park Road, Watertown December 13, 2014 This page will not spend too much time getting into the whole Leatherman thing. That was done over here, on a page about another nearby Leatherman’s Cave. I have no idea which cave was used more by the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Everything Else, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Caves & Dens, Cool Rocks, Damian, Dubious Claims, Hikes with my Boys, Leatherman, video, Watertown

Connecticut Cellar Savers Fire Museum (Closed)

December 5, 2014 by Steve 1 Comment

”Oh Fireman, There’s Somethin’ Smoking Hot On the Beach!” Portland (Google Maps location) November 29, 2014 2019 Update: This museum has closed. I’m the rare writer who starts pages with an aside. I'm pretty sure that makes me a bad writer, but don’t tell anyone. Anyway, if you live in Connecticut and have … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Cars and Trucks, Closed/Gone/Former, Damian, Fire Museum, Free Museums, Hoang, Model Trains, Nudity, Portland

1st Company Governor’s Horse Guards Cavalry Museum (Closed)

February 22, 2008 by Steve 4 Comments

It's Closed?! Neigh! Avon RIP, Late 1990's (?) Avon, Connecticut: Voted one of the "preppiest" places in the United States in the 1980s best-seller "The Official Preppy Handbook." Avon: home of a school that looks as though it is from a Harry Potter movie. And Avon, where just a couple minutes from … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Museums, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: Animals, Avon, Closed/Gone/Former, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Military History

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