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CTMQ's Guide to Suffield

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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