This Land Has Hart & Merritt Alice Merritt Recreation Area & Berg Field, Hartland November 2022 & June 2024 Hartland is a beautiful town. If I was a motorcycle rider, I'd go to Hartland every nice day I could. I would ride up Route 20... and keep riding right on past these two adjacent properties and enjoy the … [Read more...]
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Three Sisters Preserve
Three Sisters... Three Disappointments Bethany Land Trust's Three Sisters Preserve, Bethany & Naugatuck May 2024 Hiking newly acquired, newly trailed properties is great. You get to be one of the first people to see and experience something new. Hiking newly acquired, newly trailed properties is terrible. You … [Read more...]
Somers: Complete!
Somers: Complete! Somers Pizza and Family Restaurant Here is the CTMQ Guide to Somers with my list and stories about everything I’ve done there! After a decade of writing CTMQ, I decided to try to “complete” towns. In that decade of traveling and writing, I had already done a lot of stuff in many of our … [Read more...]
Donovan Family Confections
Family Matters Donovan Family Confections, Wallingford May 2024 Family. There are certain days throughout the year that we take time to recognize family and what our unique dynamics mean to each of us. Mother's Day, obviously, is one such day. Arguably the most important one of all. And my wife, who is … [Read more...]
Whitaker Woods
I Do Care a Whit Northern Connecticut Land Trust: McCann Farm Nature Preserve, Somers August 2023 & May 2024 The Whitaker Woods Trails are contiguous with McCann Family Farm Trails... and are also contiguous with the Forest View Trails... which are contiguous with Shenipsit State Forest and Soapstone Mountain … [Read more...]
Dead Language Beer Project
Magna Cervisia Dead Language Beer Project, Hartford May 2024 Yo. Get yourself to Hartford. Parkville, specifically. Don't be scared. And don't act like you don't know that there are plenty of suburbanites who are scared. I read their ignorant comments all the time on various outlets. There are good reasons … [Read more...]
Forest View North & South Trails
Hike, Forest, Hike Forest View North & South Trails, Somers May 2024 Firstly, how cool is this? I'm not sure I've seen this signage anywhere else in Connecticut other than on Routes 341 in Kent and 7 in Salisbury for the Appalachian Trail. Of course there are many others around the state... I'm just not … [Read more...]
Bethany Center School
On The Outside, Looking In Bethany (Google Maps location) May 2024 CT museum visit #516. The other day an article about me and this very website was published across a slew of Connecticut online outlets. The "Hearst Media" ones. It was about a guy (me) who claims to have visited 515 (now 516) museums across the … [Read more...]
Plasko’s Farm Creamery
Flat Farm, not Fat Farm! Plasko's Farm Creamery, Trumbull April 2024 Contrary to what their website says, you'll be welcome here no matter where you're from. What do I mean? I mean that every subsection ends with the same "welcome" to Trumbull and nearby towns. Heck, this is a header on a few … [Read more...]
Edna L. Delano Nature Sanctuary & Rodell’s Roost for Robins
The Name of This Place is Longer Than The Trails Here Edna L. Delano Nature Sanctuary & Rodell’s Roost for Robins, Bethany May 2024 I had an hour to kill. About as long as it took me to type the title above. I kid, I kid. I had a couple shorter Bethany Land Trust hikes on my mind, so off I went to do just … [Read more...]
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