We Can All Be Ethel Walkers Ethel Walker Woods and Town Forest, Simsbury September 2022 This is a weird one for me. I took the boys here several years ago and only have vague recollections of what happened. We didn't get too far, but I don't know if that was because of Damian, Calvin, me, or a combination thereof. … [Read more...]
Windsor Locks: Complete!
Windsor Locks: Complete! Bobby V's Here is the CTMQ Guide to Windsor Locks with my list and stories about everything I’ve done there! After a decade of writing CTMQ, I decided to try to “complete” towns. In that decade of traveling and writing, I had already done a lot of stuff in many of our towns already. … [Read more...]
Jennifer’s Ice Cream
Jenny From the Choc Jennifer's Ice Cream, East Haven August 2022 "All Products made fresh daily on the premises.Ice cream cakes, ice cream sandwiches, cones, sundaes, milkshakes." That's it. That's all I can tell you about Jennifer's Ice Cream, located in a busy section of East Haven on a corner lot. … [Read more...]
Edward V. Sabotka Civil War Museum
It's All About the Union Windsor Locks, (Google Maps location) October 2017 Because I couldn't differentiate between Memorial Hall Museum and the Edward Sabotka Civil War Museum, I've combined the two but have published two separate pages. But I've given this page a brilliant title; it's a reference to The Wire … [Read more...]
Memorial Hall Museum
Thanks For The Memories Windsor Locks, (Google Maps location) October 2017 Because I couldn't differentiate between Memorial Hall Museum and the Edward Sobatka Civil War Museum, I've combined the two but have published two separate pages. Memorial Hall is a striking building, right in the center of Windsor … [Read more...]
ARRL Heritage Museum
Go Ahead, Ham it Up ARRL Heritage Museum, Newington (Google Maps location) August 2016 Connecticut museum visit #293. Hoo boy. Here's a museum that I'm afraid I don't know much about. I clearly visited it. I clearly spent a good amount of time there. And I was clearly welcomed by the kind folks in … [Read more...]
Cape Cod (2016)
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...]
The Ice Box (Closed)
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...]
Welles-Shipman-Ward House
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...]
The Museum of Fife and Drum
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...]
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