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Mory’s

July 17, 2020 by Steve 1 Comment

A Rare Bit of CTMQ Mory's, New Haven October 2013 Greetings! You have found your way to another of the very few, very rare CTMQ pages where I write about something I didn't really experience. As you see from the pictures, I was definitely in Mory's at Yale, but I must come clean: I didn't eat or drink anything … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, Historic Restaurants and Bars, New Haven, restaurants, Yale

460. Art Gallery at UConn Stamford

April 14, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

The Kids are Alright Stamford (Google Maps location) February 28, 2020 The state's flagship university has refocused its branch locations in the early 2000's. They closed the Torrington branch, moved the Hartford one, and invested fairly heavily in the Stamford one. (Which, as Connecticut's most modern city, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Colleges & Universities, Damian, Free Museums, Not Really a Museum Museum, Stamford, UConn

267. Josephine A. Dolan Nursing Museum

March 2, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

Will I Nurse This Review, Or Just Milk It? Mansfield (Google Maps location) May 30, 2014 What up, SON? I said, What up, SON?" Oh, hello. That's George, a heart patient simulator at UConn's School of Nursing (SON) program in Storrs. He lies in the Josephine A. Dolan Collection of nursing history and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, Creepy Dolls, Free Museums, Mansfield, Not Really a Museum Museum, Storrs, UConn

Handsome Dan

October 21, 2019 by Steve 1 Comment

Dead Dan First College Mascot in the United States New Haven I toured some buildings on the Yale campus once, including the incredible Payne Whitney Gym. It's such an incredible gym, I called it a museum and wrote about it. And notably, no one called me an idiot for doing so. In the lobby of the massive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, New Post, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events, Superlatives Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, New Haven, Yale

CT Collegiate Football Tour: UConn

October 7, 2019 by Steve 2 Comments

UCan't UConn vs. University of South Florida, East Hartford October 5, 2019 *Sigh* Books will be written about UConn football and its unique place in the history of the ultimate implosion of the NCAA. Chapters will be filled with details about the expensive dream. The rise and precipitous fall of the football … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, New Post, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events Tagged With: college football tour, Colleges & Universities, East Hartford, football, rentschler field, UConn

254. Payne Whitney Gym

September 27, 2019 by Steve 1 Comment

Poola-Poola New Haven (Google Maps location) October 12, 2013 You know what? I’m not going to do what I always do on pages like this and spend two paragraphs weakly explaining why I consider a certain place a museum when it is clearly not a museum. This is a gym on the Yale campus in New Haven that I’m including … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, collegiate sports, New Haven, Not Really a Museum Museum, Yale

Connecticut BioBlitz

March 10, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

"Are you ready Steve? Uh-huh" Multiple Locations (East Hartford for us) (Google Maps location) June 4, 2016 Do you want to know what my favorite part of Sweet's classic "Ballroom Blitz" is? It's how it begins: Are you ready Steve? Uh-huh Andy? Yeah Mick? Okay Alright fellas, let's go! As one named … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Museums, New Post Tagged With: Animals, Calvin, Colleges & Universities, Damian, East Hartford, Free Museums, Natural History, Not Really a Museum Museum, Rarely Open, transient museums, UConn

Holy Apostles College

January 9, 2019 by Steve Leave a Comment

Holy Snappers Holy Apostles College & Seminary Cromwell Y'know... every so often you do something weird. And if by "you" I mean me, it's more than "every so often." Case in point: "Hey boys, let's go check out the fun at Holy Apostles College and Seminary in Cromwell!" The poor dears had no idea what any of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, New Post, Religion, Cemeteries, Monuments, Statuary, Greens, & Outdoor Sculpture & Art, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events Tagged With: Arboreta, Colleges & Universities, cromwell, Fairs and Festivals

Moor’s Charity School Museum

November 4, 2018 by Steve 2 Comments

Give. Me. Moor. Museums. Columbia (Google Maps location) June 7, 2013 Connecticut history superfans are surely aware of the mild controversy regarding the origins of the state's most famous university. There is some argument whether is started in Old Saybrook or Wethersfield... or perhaps Killingworth. Or maybe … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, columbia, Damian, Free Museums, native american history, Rarely Open

339. Widener Gallery

October 20, 2018 by Steve 1 Comment

Jury Duty Hartford (Google Maps location) December 8, 2016 Jury Duty. The bane of everyone's proud duty of all American citizens. After decades of apparent invisibility, I'm now getting called every three years... or whatever the minimum time period in between each is. At least now I know I can show up an hour … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Colleges & Universities, Free Museums, Hartford, Trinity College

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