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111. Gillette Castle

March 9, 2010 by Steve 5 Comments

The Best (Castle) a Man Can Get East Haddam & Lyme (Google Maps Location) May 31, 2009 I've since visited Gillette Castle many times, for many different reasons. In fact, there are several other CTMQ pages about the state park, often with much better pictures. Aha! A rarity on CTMQ: A museum I’d visited … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites Tagged With: "See Before you die" list, Cool Architecture, Damian, East Haddam, Gillette Castle State Park, Hoang, Lyme

143. B.F. Clyde’s Cider Mill

February 27, 2010 by Steve 1 Comment

How You Like These Apples? B.F. Clyde's Cider Mill, Stonington (Google Maps location) October 24, 2009 Since this first visit, we have been to Clyde's several times. There are some pictures from a 2013 as well. Since you were wondering, no, I haven’t used this title before. Over at the oldest operational cider … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Food & Drink, Museums, National "Stuff", Superlatives, Wineries Tagged With: Calvin, Cideries, Damian, Dubious Claims, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Hard Cider, Hoang, Not Really a Museum Museum, Stonington

Curling in Norfolk!

February 25, 2010 by Steve 2 Comments

Curling Is Not a Sport. There, I Said It. Norfolk Curling Club, Norfolk February 20, 2010 Note: Some jackasses burned down the curling shed in 2011. But it has risen from the ashes and is back open in late 2013! This makes me very happy. You are not really a fan of curling. Oh sure, you pretend to be during … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events Tagged With: Damian, Hoang, Norfolk, wacky sports & games

ASME: BF Clyde’s Cider Mill

February 25, 2010 by Steve 3 Comments

ASME Landmark #181 (1898) BF Clyde's Steam Powered Cider Mill Stonington You very well may have stumbled onto this particular page about BF Clyde’s from one of the other entries around the website. After all, this place shows up on CTMQ in many lists – as a museum, as a cider (soft AND hard) mill, as the oldest … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, National "Stuff" Tagged With: ASME Landmarks, Calvin, Damian, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Hard Cider, Stonington

C.H. Pease Museum of Natural History

February 23, 2010 by Steve 3 Comments

May I Pease See Your Museum North Canaan (Google Maps Location) February 20, 2010 CT Museum #153 No one will complain about me writing too much about this little museum. That’s because I don’t have anything to say about it. There is no information online anywhere at all and the signage at the museum was … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: BEARS!, Damian, Free Museums, Hoang, Libraries, Natural History, North Canaan

Apple Pie at Beardsley’s Cider Mill

February 21, 2010 by Steve 1 Comment

A Pretty, Crumby Pie Beardsley's Cider Mill, Shelton October 2009 I revisited in 2024 and it's much the same, except they've added a distillery in a separate building a few hundred yards away. It's called White Hills Distillery here's my visit. Ah, bliss. An October weekend in New England with a trip … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink Tagged With: Damian, Hoang, Roadfood's Eat Before You Die, Shelton

112. Livingston Ripley Waterfowl Conservancy

February 17, 2010 by Steve 2 Comments

Duck, Duck, Emperor Goose Litchfield (Google Maps Location) June 7, 2009 People always ask me how I find stuff for my giant museum list. Short answer: Every which way you can imagine - and then some. Well over three years into this thing now, I'm still finding out about new places on a fairly frequent basis. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Animals, Birds, Damian, Free Museums, Hoang, Litchfield, Not Really a Museum Museum, Outdoor Museums

151. Lamothe’s Sugar House

February 8, 2010 by Steve 7 Comments

Sweeeeeeet! Burlington (Google Maps Location) February 7, 2010 It just occurred to me that if I assume I go to about 600 museums in Connecticut when all is said and done - which is a fair assumption - I'm now about one quarter done. That took about 3.5 years so that means I'll be at this another 10 years or so. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, Museums Tagged With: Burlington, Calvin, Damian, Free Museums, Hoang, Not Really a Museum Museum, Other Companies and Businesses

Winvian Farm

February 4, 2010 by Steve 1 Comment

Our Day With Paolo From Rome. In a Helicopter. Swoon. Winvian Farm, Morris January 23, 2010 [2018 Update: This is definitely a place that deserves a revisit... if only because I really want to revisit this place and take much better/bigger pictures.] It is so incongruous to everything else surrounding it, and so … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses Tagged With: "See Before you die" list, Damian, Hoang, Hotel, Morris, Other Companies and Businesses, winvian

126. Wilbur Cross Gallery (Gone)

February 2, 2010 by Steve 1 Comment

No Need to Get Cross With Me Storrs/Mansfield (Google Maps Location) July 17, 2009 Please note that this was written in 2009 and that I am pretty sure this gallery no longer exists as it did back then. I spent four (and, ahem, a half, ahem) years and several tens of thousands of my father’s hard-earned money at … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Colleges & Universities, Damian, Mansfield, Not Really a Museum Museum, Storrs, UConn

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