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CTMQ > Creepy Dolls

Old Tolland County Jail & Museum

November 16, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Solitary Refinement Tolland, (Google Maps location) July 15, 2018 Oh man. Here we are again... at another large town history museum! Or should I say "museums?" While the Tolland Historical Society bills this place as the "Old Tolland County Jail & Museum," it really is two distinctly separate entities... under one … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Damian, historic house museum, Tolland, Tolland County, Town History

Mansfield Historical Society Museum

November 3, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Another Feather in My Cap Mansfield (Google Maps location) July 22, 2018 This little town little town history museum is quite nice. But I've got to tell you, before visiting, I think the most "exciting" part of it for me was that CFPA's Nipmuck Trail goes right through it. Just like along the Appalachian Trail in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Birds, Creepy Dolls, Damian, Mansfield, Tolland County, Town History

The Museum of Fife and Drum

July 7, 2022 by Steve 3 Comments

I'm a Yankee Doodle Ding-Dong Essex (Google Maps location) June 2016 Come they told me, pa rum pum pum pum... Come to the Museum of Fife and Drum. So I did on Connecticut Open House Day 2016. I knew that one of the oldest, and supposedly the largest, musters occurs each year in Deep River, right next door to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Damian, Deep River, Middlesex County, Military History

Mystic River Historical Society & Portersville Academy

June 6, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Skeletons in the Closet Groton (Google Maps location) June 2016 I know you all just love when I insist on geolocating things in either Groton or Stonington and refuse to say "Mystic." Even now, with the Mystic River Historical Society of... Mystic. Look, it's in Groton. Groton, Groton, Groton. Of course … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Damian, Free Museums, Groton, Mystic, New London County, Rarely Open, School House

Hyland House Museum

May 23, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Hy-Ho, Hy-Ho, It¹s Off to Another Museum I Go... Guilford (Google Maps location) June 2016 Any reader of this website knows that there are a lot of historic house museums in Connecticut. (And, presumably, other surrounding states as well.) When I began visiting them and writing about then long ago, I often … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Damian, Guilford, historic house museums, Historic Houses, New Haven County

Tolland Red and White

December 15, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

... and Electric Blue Tolland Red and White Tolland There's this little gray-area category here on CTMQ of stores that have museum-like qualities. They're certainly not museums, but they're unique and interesting enough to slip onto the pages of this website. One such store is Tolland Red and White. After … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Other Companies and Businesses, Tolland, Tolland County

The Stone House (Deep River Historical Society)

November 9, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Ivory and Lace, In Their Rightful Place Deep River (Google Maps location) November 2015 As we Americans progress through the 21st century, some quarters are becoming "awoken" to things in their lives that have never been just or fair. We hear about "cancel culture" and all sorts of fake outrages fomented at the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Creepy Dolls, Damian, Deep River, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Hoang, Industrial History, Middlesex County, Town History

McGuff Museum of Girl Scout History

July 19, 2021 by Steve 4 Comments

Gurrrlll North Haven (Google Maps location) May 30, 2019 The best story from my visit to the McGuff Museum of Girl Scout History does not lie in the artifacts lovingly collected and placed for exhibit in the bowels of a large building in North Haven. No, the best story surrounds the fact that I, a 40-something … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Free Museums, New Haven County, North Haven, Rarely Open, Tiny Museums

Center School History Museum

June 18, 2021 by Steve 2 Comments

Center of MAGA Connecticut Center School History Museum, Wolcott (Google Maps location) June 12, 2021 What am I gonna do? Pretend this is some revelatory museum? That its organization and deep research had me exploring every nook and cranny for hours on end? Sorry, I can't do that. I can only tell you about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, New Haven County, School House, Tiny Museums, Town History, Wolcott

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, Tolland County, UConn

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