Swingin' Good Time East Haddam (Google Maps location) June 10, 2017 Iconic. From a national view, there are very few things that are truly iconic in Connecticut. Yale, New Haven pizza, Mark Twain's House, Mystic Seaport maybe... insurance? The Whalers logo for sure. Um, Greenwich wealth? CTMQ? But if … [Read more...]
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Hog River Brewing Company (Closed)
Turning Hartford's Bathroom Into Its Living Room Hog River Brewing Company, Hartford Multiple Visits Hog River's Hartford "Living Room" taproom closed in April 2023. As every Hartford area resident knows, today's Park River used to be called the Hog River. (It also used to be called The Little River, which is … [Read more...]
Military Historians Museum (Closed)
They Lost The Battle and the War Westbrook, (Google Maps location) September 2022 The Military Historians Museum closed in January 2018. Very early on in this whole CTMQ thing I do... way back when the focus really was just museums... I "visited" some recently closed museums. This was back in 2009 or so. It was … [Read more...]
John and Madeline McClean Outdoor Education Preserve
New Trail and It's Grape! John and Madeline McClean Outdoor Education Preserve, Suffield August 2022 The Suffield Land Conservancy seems to have a penchant for long preserve naming conventions. Their newest trailed property (in 2022) follows the pattern. Whereas most organizations would call this the McClean … [Read more...]
Jennifer’s Ice Cream
Jenny From the Choc Jennifer's Ice Cream, East Haven August 2022 "All Products made fresh daily on the premises.Ice cream cakes, ice cream sandwiches, cones, sundaes, milkshakes." That's it. That's all I can tell you about Jennifer's Ice Cream, located in a busy section of East Haven on a corner lot. … [Read more...]
Noden-Reed Museum
Windsor Locks'ed Down Windsor Locks, (Google Maps location) August 2022 On the surface, I live a pretty normal suburban married dad life. Minivan, yardwork, soccer games. But lurking beneath that veneer of normalcy is a weirdo who aims to go to every museum in the state. Many hundreds of them. And not only that, … [Read more...]
Outer Light Brewing Company
Lights Out Outer Light Brewing Company, Groton Multiple Visits In 2025 Outer Light formed a partnership with Rhode Island's Grey Sail Brewing (or were bought by them). They will continue to brew and use the Outer Light name and branding. Outer Light makes really good beer. Outer Light has always made really … [Read more...]
Hanging Hills Brewing Company (Closed)
Hanging in There Hanging Hills Brewing Company, Hartford Multiple Visits Hanging Hills closed in March 2020. Sometimes I am forced to write up a brewery after it closes. And that's never fun. Like right now. This isn't fun. Wait... lemme go grab a fresh Hanging Hills beer out of the fridge to lighten the mood a … [Read more...]
Dom’s Creamery
Dommmm-dom-dom-Domp! Dom's Creamery, Avon July 2022 The way things are trending, Avon might be renamed Dom at some point. Unrelated, but I just remembered that in the 17th century, the area that is now Avon used to be called Nod (and Nod Road still exists along the Farmington River here), so Dom is sort of like … [Read more...]
World’s Tallest Uncle Sam
MAGA World's Tallest Uncle Sam, Danbury August 2022 The funniest thing to me about this incongruous giant Uncle Sam is that it's not the "world's tallest" because there's another 38-foot tall Uncle Sam in Michigan as I write. So what did the showman mayor of Danbury say? When the statue was officially … [Read more...]
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