They’re Not Booing, They’re saying “Boooooooooooooothe!” Stratford (Google Maps location) October 19, 2013 I love Boothe Memorial Park. Love it silly. Quirky, historic, beloved… all that good stuff. I also hate Boothe Memorial Park. How does someone like me deal with this place? There are a slew of museums … [Read more...]
444. Milldale Train Depot Museum
It Happened to Me Southington (Google Maps location) June 22, 2019 Historic preservation is a funny thing. A lot of what gets saved is obvious, but a lot is not. Take, for instance, the Milldale Train Depot, a tiny little building in Southington not unlike hundreds, if not thousands, of very similar little depot … [Read more...]
James Property
Jamesy-Pie Simsbury Land Trust's James Property, Simsbury October 2015 My younger son Calvin has a friend named James and he calls him Jamesy-Pie for some reason that no one can explain. It is not said as an insult; it's actually used endearingly the best as I can tell, and Jamesy-Pie doesn't mind it. … [Read more...]
GLT: Fox Brook Preserve
Gosh Darn Nice Goshen Land Trust, Goshen, 0.7 Miles March 2016 When you skim this page it will have no effect on you. And it shouldn’t. It’s just another short little trail you’ll likely never seek out featuring a little boy you’ll never know. But a lot of my inspiration to write up all the stuff that I do really … [Read more...]
The Farm at Carter Hill
Marlborough Gotta Marlborough The Farm at Carter Hill, Marlborough July 28, 2019 Marlborough is one of our 169 towns with… not much to CTMQ-do. One art gallery, a few little trails here and there… a cool roadside rock… um… and this place. Whatever this place is. You’ve got me. The Farm at Carter Hill seems … [Read more...]
Horseguard State Park Scenic Reserve
Horsing Around Horseguard State Park Scenic Reserve, Avon November 2016 In October of 2016, The Hartford Courant's Peter Marteka wrote, Horse Guard State Park Scenic Reserve is one of those [astericked, as in overlooked] places. But after what I saw on my visit, it easily moved into my "Top 10 list of … [Read more...]
Burnham Blacksmith Shop
I’m Plane Nuts East Hartford (Google Maps location) June 10, 2017 Ahhh, yes, June 10, 2017. A fine day that was. Another year, another fantabulous Connecticut Open House Day! An annual event that I treat like the holiday it should be. I went to a bunch of places in the Connecticut River Valley, but found myself … [Read more...]
J. Foster Ice Cream
Fostering Larger Waistlines J. Foster Ice Cream, Avon May 2019 The Simsbury location closed in October 2020. It’s a bit weird to me to write about something I’ve been to a dozen times already over the course of the last decade. Such is the case with J. Foster Ice Cream in Avon. They have a satellite location in … [Read more...]
Holy Cow Ice Cream Shop
Harry Caray’s Fave Holy Cow Ice Cream Shop, Newtown May 2019 Something happens to me far more infrequently than you’d believe: I visit a place for this website and wonder if I’d been there before. That has happened to me exactly once in 13 years so far and it was here, at The Holy Cow Ice Cream Shop in Newtown. … [Read more...]
Pine Grove Schoolhouse
Pining For the Past Avon (Google Maps location) June 2019 Connecticut museum visit #436. Someone asked me the other day a question I love ("OMG! You read and care about CTMQ?!") and hate ("OMG! If I answer you honestly, you'll think I'm nuts!"). Part of the question was related to the whole "town completion" … [Read more...]
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