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Simsbury Free Library

January 22, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

Eno's Traffic Simsbury Free Library, Simsbury November 2024 Connecticut museum visit #540. Funny story: I visited this library within a week or two of visiting another unique library in New Haven. There was no question in my brain that that library can be called a museum. But this one in Simsbury? I waffled. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, Museums, New Post Tagged With: Free Museums, Libraries, Not Really a Museum Museum, Simsbury, Tiny Museums

Book Review: A Museum of Early American Tools

January 21, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

Toolin' Along A Museum of Early American Tools, Eric Sloane (1964) Connecticut museum visit #541. This is a first. 541 Connecticut museums into this decades-long project and I'm calling a book I just read a museum. Which is ridiculous. Absurd. Ludicrous. The book was written by Eric Sloane, one of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Movies, People, & Stories, Everything Else, Museums, New Post Tagged With: books, Connecticut Books, eric sloane, Not Really a Museum Museum, Tools

Founders League Private Prep School Museums

January 20, 2025 by Steve 1 Comment

Fahncy Founders League Private Prep School Museums, Various Towns This page is only about the 9 Connecticut schools in The Founders Athletic League. There are many other schools - boarding, prep, and public - around the state with museums. You can blame this page on my very specific, very undiagnosed, very … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Appointment Only, Art, Not Really a Museum Museum, Private Schools

Thimble Island Old Saybrook Brewpub (Closed)

January 18, 2025 by Steve 1 Comment

A Thimble of Time Thimble Island Brewpub, Old Saybrook This Thimble Island location closed in January 2025. I never visited. It's tough out there, folks. While the flagship Thimble Island Brewery is still open in an office park in Branford, this attempt at a second location in Old Saybrook lasted only nine … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Old Saybrook, short stay, Thimble Island BREWING

Ethiopia: Lalibela

January 17, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

Lali, Lali, Lali Get Your Injera Here... CT Food Tour of the World at Lalibela, New Haven November 2024 I'm facing a crisis. And if my wife wrote about places like Lalibela like I do, she'd have the same issue. Is it an ethical issue? An existential one? I'm not sure, but it certainly won't be the first time I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Food Tour of the World, Hoang, New Haven

Meadowood

January 16, 2025 by Steve 2 Comments

I, Too, Have a Dream... But No Answers Meadowood, Simsbury November 2024 I try, with varied success, to be fairly politically neutral on this site. And I will continue to try on this page about some old tobacco barns in a farmed field in northern Simsbury as well. Mostly because I honestly don't know where I'd … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Dubious Claims, Farms, Simsbury

Highlawn Forest

January 15, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

Herbert's Way is the Only Way CFPA's Highlawn Forest, Middlefield & Middletown April 2009 & November 2023 No one would complain if I just ignored my "hike" here in 2009 as it was maybe a third of a mile total. Back then, the trails here weren't trails as much as they were demonstrations of how the CFPA trails … [Read more...]

Filed Under: CFPA Hikes, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post Tagged With: Blue Trails Challenge, Damian, Hikes with my Boys, Middlefield, Middletown

Hell Hole

January 14, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

Aw. I Think Simsbury is Nice! Hell Hole, Simsbury This page is a great example of who I am at my deepest core... for better or for worse. And I won't even burden you with how far down the Satanic rabbit hole I went just now either. Okay, so, yeah. I try to find all these places around the state named for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, New Post, Religion, Cemeteries, Monuments, Statuary, Greens, & Outdoor Sculpture & Art Tagged With: Bushwhack, Satan!, Simsbury

Rimmon School House (Closed)

January 13, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

Rimmon Job Rimmon School House, Beacon Falls November 2024 Y'know, this was never a museum and I'm 99% sure it will never be a museum, but here it is, what I'm calling Connecticut museum visit #531. Look, I get it. You think I'm just padding my museum visit stats. Fine. But do you really think that a guy … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Beacon Falls, Closed/Gone/Former, Not Really a Museum Museum, School Houses

Stappa Vineyard

January 10, 2025 by Steve 1 Comment

Just Stahhpp Stappa Vineyard, Orange November 2024 The tasting room at Stappa Vineyard in Orange is lovely. The grounds are expansive and nice. The people working there were very friendly. Thank you for coming to my page about this winery. I really should stappa there. But you people expect more. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, New Post, Wineries Tagged With: Hoang, Orange

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