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Sleeping Giant Tower

April 1, 2011 by Steve 1 Comment

Sleeping Giant Lookout Tower Hamden Stone Tower (~38 feet) on Sleeping Giant’s Hip (~769 feet) For more on one particular hike up to the tower (mine), go here. For another hike up to the tower with my sons, go here. Ah, the venerable stone tower on the Giant. I would guess that this is the most visited … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites, Towers, Bridges, Forts, Tunnels, Roads, Canals, Dams, Fishways, Airports, & Ferries Tagged With: Calvin, Damian, Giant Master, Great Views, Hamden, Hikes with my Boys, national recreation trail, Observation Towers, Sleeping Giant State Park

158. Stepping Stones Museum for Children

March 20, 2011 by Steve Leave a Comment

Get to Stepping! Norwalk (Google Maps location) March 13, 2010 Go to enough children's museums and they all start running together in your memory. Of course, I can’t imagine many people would go to every children's museum in the state, so in reality, there’s nothing wrong with that. Especially if they are all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Children's Museums, Damian, Hoang, Natural History, Norwalk

Sweet Pea Farm

March 16, 2011 by Steve 5 Comments

Sweeeeeeeeeeeeeeet! Sweet Pea Farm Cheese at House of Hayes Farm, North Granby November 21, 2010 Sometimes Hoang just wants to go for a ride. Since gas costs money and it’s really never a good idea to “just drive,” I take the time to plot a route and hit some CTMQ-worthy spots along the way. It had been a while … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Ice Cream, Cheese, & Chocolate Trails Tagged With: CT Cheese Trail, Damian, Farms, Granby, Hoang

Trinity College Squash

February 28, 2011 by Steve 1 Comment

Squashing! A Day with the Trinity Squash Men's Team Hartford Simply put, squash is the worst name for a sport. Worse than ping-pong, worse than cricket and worse than cock-fighting. A squash is a vegetable. To squash something is to smoosh it. Why in the world it’s also the name of a fast-paced enclosed racket … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, collegiate sports, Damian, Hartford, Hoang, national Champions, Trinity College, wacky sports & games

St. George’s Gingerbread Village

February 25, 2011 by Steve 3 Comments

“Take, and Eat, for this is the body of Gingerbreadman” Gingerbread Village & Christmas Bazaar St. George’s Episcopal Church, Middlebury I’m not going to suggest you pack up your brood in December and drive across the state to check out this gingerbread village. Even if that’s exactly what we did. But if you are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Religious, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events Tagged With: Christmas, Damian, Hoang, Middlebury

The Peters Railroad Museum

February 23, 2011 by Steve 12 Comments

Dave Peters: CTMQ Hero Wallingford (Private Home) November 25, 2009 All aboarrrrd! All aboard the Peters Rail Road Museum bandwagon. There’s plenty of room right now, but once this page gets read and zipped around, it may be too late. Why? Because the Peters Rail Road Museum is just plain awesome. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Appointment Only, basement museums, Calvin, Damian, Free Museums, Hoang, Model Trains, private museum, Trains and Trolleys, Wallingford

Graywall Farms

February 22, 2011 by Steve 1 Comment

Gray Day, Graywall, Gray Everything Graywall Farms, Lebanon February 21, 2011 Graywall Farms is part of the wonderful Farmer’s Cow. The Farmer’s Cow is a group of six Connecticut family dairy farms working for the future of our families and dairy businesses. They produce milk, half and half, eggs and seasonal … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Everything Else Tagged With: Animals, Damian, Farmers Cow, Farms, Lebanon

Connecticut Science Center

February 19, 2011 by Steve 3 Comments

Too Big to Fail Hartford (Google Maps location) October 2009 Connecticut Museum Visit #142. Hm. Um. Uh-huh. Here in Connecticut there are only a few gigantor museums, so my experience thus far in blogging about them is scant. And I’m scared. Scared for a couple reasons, really… One, the sheer size and … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: CT Dino Trail, Damian, Dinosaurs, Hartford, Hoang, Natural History

140. White Memorial Conservation Center Nature Museum

February 12, 2011 by Steve 5 Comments

Stuff White People Like Litchfield (Google Maps location) October 3, 2009 Yet again, I’m forced to remind anyone reading this that there are plenty of things to do in Connecticut, year-round - and with kids. When people think of Litchfield, they almost universally think of the town green, the beautiful church … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: "See Before you die" list, Animals, BEARS!, Damian, Hoang, Litchfield, Natural History, Nature Centers, White Memorial Conservation Center

PhotoSynthesis Gallery

February 1, 2011 by Steve 3 Comments

Down the Dark Alleys of Manchester* Manchester (Google Maps location) November 20, 2010 *Photosynthesis moved to East Hartford in 2018. See update at bottom! What a day. A surprise visit from EdHill, a hastily thrown together itinerary, A fairly well-behaved Damian, the largest serviceberry tree in America, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Art, Damian, EdHill, Free Museums, Manchester, Not Really a Museum Museum, Nudity

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