Jumpin' Jehosaphat JumpFest, Salisbury February 2022 When I planned to hit up Jumpfest in Salisbury, I went to Google Maps to plot out my route via whatever confusing and twisty backroads I'd be driving on. Having experienced the backroads in the mountains there for various hikes, I knew what to expect. … [Read more...]
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Veracious Brewing Company (Closed)
Pew-Pew Veracious Brewing Company, Monroe April 2016 Veracious Brewing closed at the end of May 2022. I'm going to be as veracious as possible on this page. Not that that's anything new here, but I thought I'd mention it. I'm writing about my one and only 2016 visit to Veracious in... 2022. It has been six … [Read more...]
New England Accordion Museum
Accordion To My Notes... North Canaan (Google Maps location) February 2022 The accordion was invented some 200 years ago, and its American heyday stretched from 1925 to 1960. The instrument is heavy and unwieldy. It cannot play quietly and it can be as piercing as a garbage truck's squealing brakes. The accordion … [Read more...]
Staffordville Post Office
The Whole Package Staffordville Post Office, Stafford If you ever find yourself driving around Staffordville and western Union and become lost in the thought that you've somehow driven off the grid to somewhere in, oh I don't know, Michigan's upper peninsula somehow, this creepy post office may wind up being your … [Read more...]
Stubborn Beauty Brewing Company (Closed)
Humble Rodent Stubborn Beauty Brewing Company, Middletown First Visit January 2015, several subsequent visits The brewery closed in February 2025 after their canning line broke and a contract with Twelve Percent wasn't making financial sense. Call it education It was somewhere in between You gave me some … [Read more...]
Earthplace
"Hi. I’m Mike. Mike the Mockingbird. I'm Here to Mock You.” Westport (Google Maps location) March 26, 2016 Earthplace, "Where science, conservation, and education meet." Load up the minivan honey, we're taking the boys to... school? The way Earthplace sells itself, it almost sounds like that. But I'm here … [Read more...]
Long Meadow Falls
Just Go With Me Here Long Meadow Falls, Oxford April 2016 Yeah, I know. This page is ridiculous. These falls don't appear in any guidebook and I may be the first person in history to hop out of his or her car to take not one, but two bad pictures of the unnamed falls on the unnamed stream. The stream comes … [Read more...]
River Park
Bonfire of the Inanities River Park, Avon February 2022 A funny thing happens when you're the guy who claims to hike all the hikes there is to hike in all the towns in all of Connecticut. People tell you that you have not hiked all the hikes there are to hike in all the towns. Like this: Across the river from … [Read more...]
Six Spoons Chocolatier (Closed)
Six-Six-Six Spoons Six Spoons Chocolatier, New Hartford February 2022 Six Spoons closed in May 2023. The chocolate landscape in Connecticut is in constant flux. Some players hang it up and some new players enter. Six Spoons in New Hartford opened in early 2017, but the chocolatier and owner has been in the game … [Read more...]
Litchfield Distillery
The Other Fabulous Baker Boys Litchfield Distillery, Litchfield March 2016 The Spirit of Hard Work® The three brothers behind Litchfield Distillery actually registered that phrase as their trademark. It's their thing. And that's not a bad thing. In fact, David, Jack, and Peter Baker are pretty much all near or … [Read more...]
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