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Putnam Memorial State Park Visitor’s Center

April 24, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

Put 'Er Here Redding September 2017 This page may be a little confusing for you. It sure is for me. For you see, Putnam Memorial State Park has a museum: The Putnam Memorial State Park Museum as well as this place, The Putnam Memorial State Park Visitor's Center which, by almost any measure, is also a museum. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Damian, Fairfield County, Military History, putnam memorial state park, Redding

Mashamoquet Brook State Park Trails

April 20, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

Do The Mash...amoquet Mashamoquet Brook State Park, Pomfret April & July 2011, August 2017 I've hiked the 6.5 miles of trails at Mashamoquet at different times and for different reasons. This page is a combination of previously published slightly divergent pages. I don't know for sure, but Mashamoquet might be … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Hiking Challenges, New Post, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites Tagged With: Calvin, Damian, Hikes with my Boys, Mashamoquet Brook State Park, Pomfret, Sky's the Limit Challenge, Swimming, Windham County

Mortensen’s Ice Cream

February 24, 2023 by Steve 1 Comment

Stick to Ice Cream, Leave the Puns to Me Mortensen's Ice Cream, Newington January 2023 I'm 50 as I write this. I've lived within 10 miles of Mortensen's for decades. And I rather like good ice cream. Which is why it's really weird that this is the first time I'd ever had Mortensen's ice cream in my life. In … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails, New Post Tagged With: CT Homemade Ice Cream Trail, Damian, Hartford County, Newington

amArtHouse

February 16, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

I amArtHouse I Am Litchfield (Google Maps location) July 2022 Over the years of writing this website, I've seen the Bantam section of Litchfield grow up from a one stoplight, one gas station slice of Route 202 to a destination. Bantam Lake has always been there, and the cute little lakefront cottages have always … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Damian, Free Museums, Litchfield, Litchfield County, private museum

American Museum of Tort Law

January 9, 2023 by Steve 3 Comments

The Nadir of Connecticut Museums? Winchester (Google Maps location) October 2018 Out of the surfeit of Connecticut museums, you can count on one hand how many have been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, The New Yorker, The PBS NewsHour, The Wall Street Journal, and most importantly, CTMQ. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Litchfield County, Winchester, Winsted

Andrews Homestead Museum

January 5, 2023 by Steve Leave a Comment

A Silver Metal Meriden (Google Maps location) September 2018 Meriden. What do you think of when someone mentions Meriden? The Police Academy? The formerly bustling silver industry? Both? Well, then do I have a museum for you! The Moses Andrews House is a historic house museum in Meriden. Built about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Free Museums, historic house museums, Historic Houses, Industrial History, Meriden, New Haven County, Town History

Leroy Anderson House

December 8, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

LEEROOOOYYY!!!!! anderson Woodbury, (Google Maps location) June 2018 Woodbury is a quirky little town. Home of America's first Episcopal Bishop and... Rob Zombie. Home of Connecticut's Antiques Central and... the modernist Hogpen Hill Farms Sculpture Park. Home of a little pewter museum and... a weirdo little zoo. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Cool Architecture, Damian, Free Museums, Hoang, Litchfield County, Modern Architecture, private museum, Woodbury

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 museums, Tolland, Tolland County, Town History

Hill-Stead Garden

November 15, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

"Heliotrope, I Hope" and Other Poetic Rhymes Farmington July 2018 Hill-Stead is... a lot. It is a National Historic Landmark, and is also part of the CT Women's Heritage Trail, the CT Art Trail, it is a museum, of course, and there are also trails to hike around the property. Oh, and it features a CT Historic … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Everything Else, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Farmington, Gardens, Hartford County, hill-stead museum, Historic Gardens

Southington Community Cultural Arts Center

November 9, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

This Place is So... So... SoCCAC! Southington, (Google Maps location) March 24, 2018 Every town in Connecticut with a population over 40,000 should have a place like the Southington Community Cultural Arts Center. Many do, of course, but not enough. The arts are integral to a healthy society, and - what's that? … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Damian, Hartford County, Southington

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