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CTMQ > Christmas

St. George’s Gingerbread Village

February 25, 2011 by Steve 3 Comments

“Take, and Eat, for this is the body of Gingerbreadman” Gingerbread Village & Christmas Bazaar St. George’s Episcopal Church, Middlebury I’m not going to suggest you pack up your brood in December and drive across the state to check out this gingerbread village. Even if that’s exactly what we did. But if you are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Religious, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events Tagged With: Christmas, Damian, Hoang, Middlebury

198. Governor’s Residence

December 8, 2010 by Steve 2 Comments

One Rell of a Good Time Hartford (Google Maps location) December 4, 2010 I’ve made mention before about how I get a little thrill out of getting to visit rarely open museums (or in this case, museum-like things). Each time I do feels like a big win for me. I’ve had the Governor’s Residence on my CTMQ radar for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, Museums, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events Tagged With: Christmas, Damian, Free Museums, Hartford, Hoang, Not Really a Museum Museum, Rarely Open

Christmas Town: Bethlehem

December 12, 2009 by Steve Leave a Comment

O (My) Little Town of Bethlehem A visit to Christmas Town December 2009 Crazy. Plum crazy I says. I had heard about Bethlehem from a trusted source who used to write for a local paper out this way that Bethlehem was a “very conservative, very unique” place. I had read that they celebrate their name through … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Books, Movies, People, & Stories, Everything Else, Religion, Cemeteries, Monuments, Statuary, Greens, & Outdoor Sculpture & Art, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events Tagged With: Abandoned and/or Unique Communities, Bethlehem, Christmas, Damian, town essays

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