Everything Brookfield I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Brookfield CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. … [Read more...]
Brookfield’s Town Trails
Brookfield's Town Trails Ah, Brookfield. Fairfield County's finest town. Checks notes What? It's not the ultimate Gold Coast hedgefund enclave? It's a rather sleepy little town squished between Lake Candlewood and the Housatonic River? With a bunch of trailed properties, several of which criss-cross farmed hay … [Read more...]
Weantinoge Heritage Land Trust Intro
Weantinoge Heritage Land Trust Brookfield, New Milford, Sharon, Kent, Newtown, Litchfield, & Roxbury I'm about to BLOW YOUR MIND. "The Weantinoge Heritage Land Trust is the largest land trust in Connecticut and the 18th largest land trust in the United States..." Which sounds positively bonkers to me. Ah, the … [Read more...]
128. Brookfield Nature Center and Rock Museum
Hellooooo Broooookfield! Brookfield (Google Maps Location) July 20, 2009 I'd recently been doing some hikes out in western Connecticut in the New Milford-Brookfield-Bridgewater area. I'd stumbled upon a few heretofore unknown museums on my forays back home in Roxbury and Woodbury - pretty much the most exciting … [Read more...]
DiGrazia Vineyards
Grazie mille! DiGrazia Vineyards, Brookfield November 2, 2008 Our day of visiting four western wineries was still going along swimmingly. We had to knock out four of them on this day, as we “had” to visit the required 14 to fulfill the Passport Program to be prize-eligible. I’m not complaining; I can think of … [Read more...]