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CT H4H: Armada Brewing

July 17, 2017 by Steve Leave a Comment

CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 4 Armada Brewing, East Haven As of today, there are 50 commercial breweries in Connecticut. Armada isn’t one you can visit in the normal sense, as owner/brewer John Kraszewski leases space from Overshores Brewing in East Haven to brew his line-up of stellar ales. For many CT Hops for Hope … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Post, Non-CT Tagged With: CT Hops for Hope

CTH4H: Get Baked

July 16, 2017 by Steve Leave a Comment

CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 3 Get Baked, Windsor People often wonder how in the world CT Hops for Hope is able to donate 100% of our ticket sales (etc.) to charity. There are many reasons: We are an all-volunteer organization, we are fully committed to the mission, and we have a bunch of incredibly generous … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Post, Non-CT Tagged With: CT Hops for Hope, sponsor, Windsor

CT H4H: Fat Orange Cat Brew Co.

July 15, 2017 by Steve Leave a Comment

CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 2 Fat Orange Cat Brew Co, East Hampton An amazing thing is happening in unlikely place. In the woods on a residential street in a sparsely populated town at a residence, tiny batches of highly sought-after IPAs (and other styles) are being brewed and sold. It is rustic, homey, funky, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Post, Non-CT Tagged With: CT Hops for Hope, fat orange cat brew co

CT H4H: Back East Brewing

July 14, 2017 by Steve Leave a Comment

CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 1 Back East Brewing, Bloomfield What better way to start this series of short posts on CT Hops for Hope breweries, sponsors, and vendors than with the brewery that just had three of their beers place in DRAFT Magazine’s blindly tasted, expertly paneled “Top 50 IPAs in America.” Back East … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Post, Non-CT Tagged With: Back East Brewing, CT Hops for Hope

CT Hops for Hope is Back!

July 6, 2017 by Steve 5 Comments

Hoping... Saturday September 2nd at Falcon Field New Britain, Connecticut CT Hops for Hope Buy Tickets! Donate! When I started CTMQ almost 11 years ago, I really had no clue as to what it would become. I just liked writing, traveling, and learning weird stuff about the local places we all take for granted. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Post, Non-CT, Smith-Magenis Syndrome Tagged With: Damian, Smith-Magenis Syndrome

Massport to Nachursetts: Wellfleet Bay

September 28, 2016 by Steve Leave a Comment

Passport to Nature, Mass Audubon Wellfleet Bay, Wellfleet August 2016 At this point, I've only been to two Mass Audubon properties (of 21). Regardless, I imagine this one at Wellfleet Bay has to be one of the best. The Nature Center is large, modern, informative, and quite impressive. And the trails out to the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audubon, Nature Conservancy, RWA, &US Army Corps of Engineers Trails, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Non-CT, Travel Tagged With: Animals, Birds, Calvin, cape cod, Damian, Hoang, Massachusetts, Nature Centers, passport to nature

Massport to Nachursetts: Long Pasture

September 27, 2016 by Steve Leave a Comment

Passport to Nature, Mass Audubon Long Pasture, Barnstable August 2016 The little center in Barnstable on the western end of Cape Cod is, I think, the newest of the Mass Audubon Centers. It's in a house that has been converted to... well, most of it appears to still be a house, but the living room is now a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audubon, Nature Conservancy, RWA, &US Army Corps of Engineers Trails, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Non-CT, Travel Tagged With: Animals, Beach, Calvin, cape cod, Damian, Giant Goofy Things, Hoang, Massachusetts, Nature Centers, passport to nature

Mass Audubon Passport to Nature

September 27, 2016 by Steve Leave a Comment

Mass Exodus? Mass Audubon Passport to Nature Warning: This page/challenge is absurd for me to even consider. It’s in Massachusetts. I don’t “do” Massachusetts on this website. Yet, here I am. “Doing” Massachusetts. Sigh. Though, if you sully yourselves and click on the links or tags, please know I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Audubon, Nature Conservancy, RWA, &US Army Corps of Engineers Trails, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Non-CT, Travel Tagged With: Animals, Birds, Massachusetts, passport to nature

You Won’t Believe How Crappy This One Website Is!

September 24, 2016 by Steve 17 Comments

Do you know what an aggregator/content farm is? They are hugely successful and tons of people still give traffic to this garbage! One in particular is "Only in Your State!" Almost every state has a dedicated site, and each one is as horrible as the next! How they work is really interesting! Let's focus on just … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Post, Non-CT Tagged With: Blog, oiys

ML60. The Moviegoer

September 22, 2016 by Steve Leave a Comment

”I Still Haven’t Found What I’m Looking For.” “U2?” Modern Library # 60 1961, Walker Percy This is another one of those books that is more than it appears to be at first blush. Of course, as per usual, I’m not smart or literary enough to have picked up on all the existential stuff and nods to Kierkegaard and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Movies, People, & Stories, New Post, Non-CT Tagged With: Modern Library Top 100 Novels

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