"De Train, De Train!" First Emergency Phone Call in US, Simsbury & Hartford Beyond the dubious nature of this claim, it bothers me that Simsbury claims it at all. There's a very good chance this happened in what is now Bloomfield (but was Simsbury back then) and more importantly, the phone call in question actually … [Read more...]
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Muhammad Ali Museum of Bethany
The Epiphany in Bethany Bethany (Private home) December 2022 CT museum visit #489 If you're unaware, Muhammad Ali was born Cassius Clay. The three-time world heavyweight champion, wordsmith, advocate, and showman died in 2016. I don't know how to begin this page. I don't know how to end this page. And … [Read more...]
Dead Language Beer Project
Magna Cervisia Dead Language Beer Project, Hartford May 2024 Yo. Get yourself to Hartford. Parkville, specifically. Don't be scared. And don't act like you don't know that there are plenty of suburbanites who are scared. I read their ignorant comments all the time on various outlets. There are good reasons … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Diane Smith Canon (Books 1-3)
Positive I've Read Them All? Positive The Diane Smith Canon Diane Smith is one of those ever-present Connecticut people. I've lived in this state since 1991 and she's always been somewhere on television or radio - or on the book racks. She is a consummate media professional and champion for Connecticut. She's a New … [Read more...]
Firefly Hollow Brewing (Closed)
Lights Out Firefly Hollow Brewing, Bristol The brewery announced its abrupt closure in February 2023, but The New Cambridge Project opened in its place and own all the Firefly recipes. In 2011 there were only a few standalone non-brewpub breweries in Connecticut... in Stonington, East Hartford, Woodbridge, … [Read more...]
Mortensen’s Ice Cream
Stick to Ice Cream, Leave the Puns to Me Mortensen's Ice Cream, Newington January 2023 I'm 50 as I write this. I've lived within 10 miles of Mortensen's for decades. And I rather like good ice cream. Which is why it's really weird that this is the first time I'd ever had Mortensen's ice cream in my life. In … [Read more...]
Dockside Brewery
Dockers and Docksiders Fit Right In Dockside Brewery, Milford August 2021 Tales From The Dockside? Dockside of the Moon? Sittin' On the Dockside of the Bay? Nah, I went with making fun of bad dad fashion instead. Dockside Brewery, located on the banks of the Housatonic River in Milford, was all set to open on … [Read more...]
Stony Creek Brewery (Closed)
From Heron Out... Stony Creek Brewery, Branford October 2015 & August 2022 At the end of 2024, Stony Creek stopped brewing and became a bar. Rumors of lawsuits and creditors calling led to rumors of purchase... which happened in July 2025. This nice building and site is now home to New England Brewing. Stony … [Read more...]
The Museum of Fife and Drum
I'm a Yankee Doodle Ding-Dong Essex (Google Maps location) June 2016 Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum... Come to the Museum of Fife and Drum. So I did on Connecticut Open House Day 2016. I knew that one of the oldest, and supposedly the largest, musters occurs each year in Deep River, right next door to … [Read more...]
Onion Mountain
"L'il Bit O' On-yon" Canton Land Conservation Trust, Canton December 2021 Who among you remembers Justin Wilson, the Cajun Chef, from his old PBS cooking shows? Man, that guy was great. Between his accent and Julia Child's accent (and the foods they made), watching PBS cooking shows was great. Those shows with … [Read more...]
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