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Argia Mystic Cruise

May 3, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Some Argle-Bargle Argia Mystic Cruise, Groton & Stonington October 2014 The Argia Cruise no longer travels under the Mystic River Bascule Bridge. I owe this experience entirely to my friend Julie who arranged an Argia Mystic Cruise for her husband Tim and some friends for his 40th birthday. Tim and I have been … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, New Post, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events Tagged With: boating & sailing, cruises, Groton, Hoang, Mystic, Ships & Boats & Submarines, Stonington

Book Review: Hidden Corners of New England

April 30, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Another Dark Entry Hidden Corners of New England, David Yeadon (1976) What's the point of reading through and writing about a travel guide almost as old as I am? I'll tell you what the point of it is: because it's a travel guide almost as old as I am about a state that I think I know as much about as anyone. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Movies, People, & Stories, Everything Else, New Post Tagged With: Connecticut Books, Connecticut Travel Guides & Cookbooks

Barnes Nature Center & Pigeon Hill Preserve Trails

April 29, 2021 by Steve 1 Comment

A Baby Pigeon! Barnes Nature Center & Pigeon Hill Preserve Trails, Bristol & Burlington November 2020 The super fun thing about pursuing my ridiculous goals for this website is keeping on top of things in towns which I've "completed" previously. Take Burlington. I "completed" Burlington in 2018 and it's … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post, Town Land Hikes

Gasoline Alley Automotive/Ford Museum

April 29, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Full Gas Stafford (Google Maps location) October 2017 I do not know if Donald Passardi still opens his private museum to visitors. Information on this place is very hard to come by these days - not that it was ever easy. Heck, I've never been sure what the name of this place is. I've seen it as Gasoline Alley … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Appointment Only, Cars and Trucks, Damian, Free Museums, private museum, Rarely Open, Stafford

Lakes Leakalot and Leakalot More

April 28, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Lakes Leakalot and Leakalot More Eastford If you happen to be reading this and haven't read much else on this website, I promise you that this page isn't indicative of the typical high quality content on CTMQ. Okay, that's not actually true. Sure, I've been to hundreds of museums and I sometimes use big words, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Geography, New Post Tagged With: Eastford, geo-oddities

RWA: Lake Hammonasset

April 27, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Mad Killing It, Yo Lake Hammonasset, Madison & Killingworth January 2021 All Regional Water Authority (RWA) properties require a purchased permit to access. As with many of these Regional Water Authority properties, there's a white-blazed forest road that circumnavigates a reservoir. Which is perhaps the most … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audubon, Nature Conservancy, RWA, &US Army Corps of Engineers Trails, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post Tagged With: Cool Geology, killingworth, Madison, privately owned trail, RWA Trails

Auntie Mame (1958)

April 24, 2021 by Steve 2 Comments

Auntie Awesome Auntie Mame, 1958 I love this movie. My wife loves this movie. If you don't at least like this movie, you are dead inside. And while it's only peripherally a "Connecticut movie," it's "Connecticutness" is enough to warrant a page on this website. It's a long movie with many twists and turns. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Movies, People, & Stories, Everything Else, New Post Tagged With: connecticut movies, Darien, five star movies, movies

The Barker Character Comic and Cartoon Museum & Art Gallery

April 23, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

This Place Gets Me Quite Animated Cheshire (Google Maps location) September 2014 & January 2017 Most readers know that I rarely visit the same museum twice. That's not a statement on the quality of the museums, but rather a simple function of logistics and my oh-so precious time. I've been to The Barker … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post, Superlatives Tagged With: Calvin, Cheshire, Damian, Hoang, Largests Longests Mosts Smallests and Tallests

Bear Hands Brewing Company

April 22, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

The Right to Bear Hands Bear Hands Brewing Company, Putnam November 2020 My friend Adam and I have an ongoing inside joke between us that isn't suited for this family website. (Although, this page is about a brewery so it's not really a family page.) It involves the baddest of the bad words and the town of Putnam. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Breweries, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: putnam

Ninevah Falls

April 21, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Biblical! Ninevah Falls, Killingworth & Madison January 2021 I just learned that Ninevah was the largest city in the world at one time. From about 660-612 BC. I remember it from my childhood Bible studies, but for those of you without that impossibly fun background, Ninevah was located where modern day Mosul in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Everything Else, New Post Tagged With: Another Freaking Jumping Indian, killingworth, Madison, Waterfalls

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