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CTMQ > Damian

Cape Cod (2016)

August 10, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Are We Doing This Again? Yes. Brewster, Etc., MA Hello family. This is for you. To anyone else looking at this... okay. Cool. Here are a bunch of pictures from our August 2016 trip to the Cape. Museums! Radio History and Marconi Stuff Because I had just visited the ARRL Heritage Museum in … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Non-CT, Travel Tagged With: Calvin, cape cod, Damian, Hoang, Massachusetts, Vacations

The Ice Box (Closed)

August 10, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

No Scoop Til Brooklyn The Ice Box, Brooklyn July 2022 After a protracted and absurd battle against the town of Brooklyn, The Ice Box was forced to close. They plan to reopen in a different town. "We make Small Batch Ice Cream." That's it. That's all they say on their website's landing page. And really, what … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails, New Post Tagged With: Brooklyn, Closed/Gone/Former, CT Homemade Ice Cream Trail, Damian

Welles-Shipman-Ward House

July 11, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Welles-Shipman-Wow Glastonbury (Google Maps location) June 2016 Welles, Welles, Welles. Another historic house museum in another Connecticut River town. Welles, Shipman, Ward... Except... except this time I had Damian with me and the docent at the house museum was magical. I wound up taking videos during my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Glastonbury, historic house museums, Historic Houses, historical society of glastonbury, Town History

The Museum of Fife and Drum

July 7, 2022 by Steve 4 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, Military History

Old Mystic History Center/Indian and Colonial Research Center

June 22, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

That Old Mystic Mystery Stonington (Google Maps location) June 2016 I know I whine about "Mystic" from a geography standpoint too much. I'm sorry. I'm going to do it again because this tiny little building exemplifies the whole Mystic, Old Mystic, Stonington, Groton thing beautifully. It is located at 39 … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Free Museums, native american history, Rarely Open, Stonington, Tiny Museums, Town History

West Hartford Art League Galleries

June 16, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Don't Mind Me, I'm Getting VerKlimpt West Hartford (Google Maps location) April 2017 & 2018 As a resident of West Hartford I've always sort of felt that out arts scene is a bit lacking. For such a "liberal" and "wealthy" town (neither of which holds entirely true), you'd think we'd have a thriving community with a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Calvin, Damian, Free Museums, Hoang, West Hartford

Great Falls

June 14, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

Sometimes Great Great Falls, Canaan/Salisbury February 2017 At some point someone dubbed Great Falls - also known as Canaan Falls - "The Niagara Falls of New England." In 2015 or so, the go-to New England waterfall resource first said, "If you are unable to make it to Niagara Falls in New York this summer, this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Everything Else, Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Appalachian Trail, Calvin, Canaan, Canals and Dams, Damian, Salisbury, Waterfalls

The Norfeldt Kindergarten Museum

June 13, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

This is My Site and My Son, So There West Hartford May 4, 2017 Warning: This is a vanity post. I am writing this for me and my family, not any of you. It's not the first and it won't be the last. And I don't care. I deserve to be able to do such things once every five years or so. The Norfeldt Kindergarten … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Art, Calvin, Damian, Free Museums, Hoang, Not Really a Museum Museum, schools, West Hartford

Mortensen Sanctuary at Riverbound Farm

June 7, 2022 by Steve 2 Comments

Horse Chestnutting Around Mortensen Sanctuary at Riverbound Farm, Cheshire September 2016 For our visit to the adjacent nature center, go here. I'm writing up these trails six or so years after walking them with Damian. I'm starting it while listening in to his annual PPT meeting. (The Planning and Placement … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: audubon, Cheshire, cheshire land trust, Damian

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, Rarely Open, School Houses

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