There Oughtta Be a Law: Visit Museums Hartford (Google Maps Location) May 12, 2008 First, an aside regarding my awkward title. I have received more then a few emails pointing me to various articles about the impending demise of the Mark Twain House Museum - one of CT's most popular and important sites. While I'm … [Read more...]
51. Housatonic Museum of Art
Bring Some Gin For This Housatonic Bridgeport (Google Maps Location) May 17, 2008 Housatonic Museum of Art is a Connecticut Art Trail site. My first art museum! Finally! After only 50 other Connecticut museum visits! It's not that I've been purposely avoiding them... I did try to go to at least one other art … [Read more...]
The Frank Chiarenza Museum of Glass (Closed)
Shattered Dreams Meriden RIP, mid-00's I have seen Mr. Desquaine’s name spelled Dequaine equally. A commenter elsewhere yelled at me and wrote “Dequaine” so I’ll go with that. Astute readers and Connecticut museum-goers know that the Frank Chiarenza Museum of Glass closed along with it's sister Lester Dequaine … [Read more...]
Snake/Turtle Rock (Marlborough)
I Like Turtles Turtle Rock, Marlborough February 2, 2008 This page came about simply because I convinced EdHill to get out of the car along the busy route 66 and stand on a painted roadside rock. I can't pretend that I expected him to actually do it, but he did, so here we are. Perhaps he was willing … [Read more...]
Frog Rock (Eastford)
"Well, You Can Rock It You Can Roll It You Can Stop And You Can Stroll It At The Hop" Frog Rock, Eastford February 2, 2008 This is one of those pages that still surprises me 10 years after I originally wrote it. It gets lots of traffic to this day - and that's great! Frog Rock is the state's largest roadside … [Read more...]
23. New Haven History Museum
A Safe, Good, and New Haven New Haven (Google Maps Location) July 21, 2007 My friend Rob and I arrived at the New Haven Colony History Museum still full of energy - despite having already been to five places already on our full CTMQ New Haven day. This would be our final museum of the day and the large banner out … [Read more...]
20. Knights of Columbus Museum
KFC: We Do Insurance Right! New Haven (Google Maps Location) July 21, 2007 On my massive list of Connecticut museums, there have always been a few that have stuck out in my mind as being oddly fascinating to me. The KFC Museum in New Haven was one - for no reason that I can explain. I suppose I was just sort of … [Read more...]
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