"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...]
Holy Apostles College
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...]
251. Moor’s Charity School Museum
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...]
339. Widener Gallery
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...]
Avery Point Lighthouse
Avery Point Lighthouse Groton What a charming li’l lighthouse. When you think about lighthouses, you realized they pretty much only exist for nostalgia’s sake anymore. Ships no longer need warning lights to tell them of rocky bottoms and approaching shorelines... so why do we keep them? Because they’re … [Read more...]
328. Alexey von Schlippe Art Gallery
What's the (Avery) Point? Groton (Google Maps location) June 14, 2016 The Gallery was closed "for good" in 2016 but is now open again, so the below may be confusing. However, I don't feel like rewriting it. Here I am, skimming through my mail in May of 2018. "Oh! A new issue of Connecticut Woodlands!" I say, … [Read more...]
Gilder Boathouse
Gilder... Or Gilded? Gilder Boathouse, Derby I'm not sure why I'm writing about this place other than it's a cool building. Wait, I think I'm writing about this place simply because it's a cool building. A building I haven't been inside and don't really have a particular need to ever be inside. But here we … [Read more...]
JT: Church Farm Preserve
Hozier is the Worst Church Farm Preserve, Ashford & Mansfield April 30, 2017 About that title just above... Sorry. I can’t help it. Hozier’s “Take Me to Church” is just awful. I hate that song with a seething passion. How in the world did that dirge become so popular? Seriously, can someone please explain that … [Read more...]
340. Dehn Gallery (Closed)
DEHN-DEH-DEHHHHHNNNN! Manchester (Google Maps location) December 10, 2016 MCC's Dehn Gallery closed in 2019. The space is now Work_Space, a co-working and meeting space which also contains three art galleries. Upon reflection, I should have saved the Dehn Gallery on Manchester's suddenly modestly Main Street … [Read more...]
242. Yale Center for British Art
Right, Then. Jolly Good. New Haven (Google Maps location) November 9, 2012 The Yale Center for British Art is a Connecticut Art Trail site. Spoiler Alert: When coupled with the neighboring Yale University Art Gallery, you simply can’t find a better day of art in Connecticut. Oh yeah, both are F-R-E-E, free, … [Read more...]
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