Things are Going Swimmingly Yale Practice Pool, New Haven I spent a wonderful day in New Haven recently doing a few tours of unique and interesting buildings around Yale's campus. There are so many ridiculously cool things of note around Yale that I came away thinking I could do an entirely separate site called YQ … [Read more...]
222. The Cushing Center & Yale Medical Library
Zombie Apocalypse Buffet New Haven (Google Maps location) October 2011 & April 2019 I always promised/threatened to bring my son Calvin here someday. Well, that day finally came during his 2nd grade spring break. And I was right - he loved it. As a result, you'll see a mixture of pictures from my 2011 visit with … [Read more...]
221. Silpe Gallery (UHa)
Slip Silpin’ Away West Hartford (Google Maps location) October 4, 2011 Every time I visit an art gallery for CTMQ purposes, I promise myself to write about it before the exhibition ends. That way, the websites and materials available to help me write the story would still be accessible. (LOL, you didn't think it … [Read more...]
UConn Men’s Soccer When # 1
Doo DooDoo Doo! UConn Men’s Soccer Game, Storrs October 12, 2011 Note that this was written in 2011, and the basketball (and field hockey) teams had some national championships ahead of them. It’s not all about the basketball in Storrs. Nope. The men’s soccer team has a longer and just as successful program. … [Read more...]
Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History
Ain’t Nobody Like the Peabody I Got New Haven (Google Maps location) September 11, 2010 The Peabody was closed for three years from 2021-2024 for a full refresh. This page will be updated at some point. Here I am again. Staring at a blank screen and 150 photos of a huge and wonderful museum wondering how in … [Read more...]
The Yale Boulder
Yale was first in Old Saybrook? Boulderdash? Original Site of Yale University, Old Saybrook Almost all of the links to original articles are dead and I've removed them. Sorry. This page would have had a higher word:picture ratio of any other on this entire website if I didn't take some creative liberties. … [Read more...]
The Oldest Collegiate Athletic Competition in US
Boola-Boola Boo-HU Boo-HU Yale-Harvard Regatta, New London & Waterford May 28, 2011 *Pictures of actual rowing stuff from here I was there, I swear. Hoang was there, and so were Damian and even baby Calvin at only 6 weeks old. We were all in New London at the appointed time to take in the sights and sounds of … [Read more...]
Shoyoan Teien (Japanese Garden)
You Sho Yoan, I’ll Sho You Mine Shoyoan Teien (Japanese Garden at the Mansfield Freeman Center), Middletown May 15, 2011 I’m in the midst of writing up a few of the “official” Historic Gardens of Connecticut, but couldn’t resist doing a page on another, newer – and arguably cooler – garden I’ve recently … [Read more...]
201. The Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies
I Think I’m Turning Japanese, I Really Think So Middletown (Google Maps location) April 23, 2011 Being married to a (south)east Asian woman and having produced two half-Vietnamese sons with her probably gives me a little more leeway with the Asian jokes than the next WASP guy. Oh, who am I kidding. Aside from … [Read more...]
National Champion Huskies (2011)
2011 UConn Men’s Basketball Arrival of Champions Bradley Field, Windsor Locks For 38 years of life, my favorite two teams (by far) are the Philadelphia Eagles and Philadelphia Flyers. The Eagles have zero Super Bowls WON THE SUPERBOWL IN 2018!!! and while the Flyers have two Stanley Cups, I wasn’t old enough to … [Read more...]
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