Canterbury: Complete! D&G Pizza and Pub Here is my list of everything I've done in Canterbury! I’m very excited to write this page. This is the 15th of what may ultimately be 169 town completion celebration pages! Yes, of course I am fully aware of how absurd that is. But I love it. For those of you … [Read more...]
NHL: Prudence Crandall House
CT National Historic Landmark Prudence Crandall House 1 South Canterbury Road (Junction of Routes 14 & 169), Canterbury It took me 13 years of writing this website to visit the Prudence Crandall Museum. Granted, Canterbury isn't exactly down the street from me, but I had driven by it a dozen times probably. And … [Read more...]
Concept of Freedom Trail: Canterbury
Prudence Crandall House 1 South Canterbury Road (Junction of Routes 14 & 169), Canterbury I'm going to flip the Freedom Trail site's ordering of information here and put this first: In 1994, Prudence Crandall was inducted into the Connecticut Women’s Hall of Fame and in 1995, Crandall was designated as … [Read more...]
Prudence Crandall Museum
Prudent and P.C. Canterbury (Google Maps location) June 2019 Yes, I've finally visited the Prudence Crandall Museum. On the face of it, it's "just another" large Georgian historic House museum on a quiet back road in Connecticut. One of a hundred. Heck, travel routes 69 and 14 starting at the Prudence Crandall … [Read more...]
Manship Park & Kinne Preserve
Canterbury Trails Robert Manship Park & Kinne Preserve Canterbury, June 2019 I had to find trails to hike in Canterbury. I just had to. Why? So that I could write the title "Canterbury Trails". I would have cleared, blazed, and walked my own darn trail if I had to. Which was almost the case, but … [Read more...]
Moses Cle(a)veland of Canterbury
Cleaved Moses Cleaveland's Birth and Grave Sites Canterbury Cleveland. The “Mistake by the Lake.” Always the butt of jokes. So much so that Connecticut makes fun of it. That’s when you know you have an identity problem. It goes beyond the Cuyahoga River being on fire and the perennial ineptitude of the Browns and … [Read more...]
Green District Schoolhouse
Canterbury Tales Canterbury (Google Maps location) June 2019 There's a good chance that you are not familiar with Canterbury, Connecticut. And that's fine. I mean, it's not like it's home to one of the most important abolitionist educators that ever lived. Or was the birth - and final resting - place of the … [Read more...]
CTMQ’s Guide to Canterbury
Everything Canterbury 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” Canterbury CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. … [Read more...]
Canterbury’s Town Trails
Canterbury's Town Trails I have a few Canterbury tales, but none yet involve hiking in the rural town. And when all is said and done, I'm not sure how many tales I'll ultimately have. For there is scant hiking here, and what is here... probably isn't all that exciting. But that's why I do what I do. What … [Read more...]
Finnish-American Heritage Society Museum
"Imma Let You Finnish" Canterbury (Google Maps location) February 2013 While there is always a danger in using pop culture references in my titles, as they are fleeting things, I just couldn't resist this one. Don't like it? How about this... You have to use the restroom really badly, so you're Russian. When … [Read more...]