Everything Norwalk I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Norwalk CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. If … [Read more...]
Norwalk Land Trust Trails
Norwalk Land Trust Trails I've written many times about how much I appreciate these coastal Fairfield County land trusts. And Norwalk is the sixth most populous city in the state! The mere fact that there's an active and vibrant land trust there is fantastic. There's only one property with a real trail and … [Read more...]
Norwalk’s Town Trails
Norwalk's Town Trails The most hiking anyone does in Norwalk is hoofing it around the SoNo district - either during the day with kids going to the attractions or at night with your crew bar hopping. But CTMQ has been there done that on both accounts; now it's time to hike some trails! In Norwalk! Yes, … [Read more...]
CTMQ’s Guide to Westport
Everything Westport I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Westport CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. If … [Read more...]
Westport’s Town Trails
Westport's Town Trails The Gold Coast. Paul Newman's hometown. Money. Lots and lots of money. And trails? Sure, why not. The Aspetuck Land Trust maintains the bulk of trails in town, but there are a couple other properties worth exploring as well. Sure, one is at the private Earthplace museum and the other … [Read more...]
Isabelle et Vincent
Oui, Oui, Oui All the Way Home Isabelle et Vincent, Fairfield April 2020 I have been known to bore people with the following story about our trip to France in 2004: A cheap baguette from a random little shop in a tiny town in the middle of nowhere in France is better than a baguette from any American high-end … [Read more...]
A Simple Favor (2018)
Simply Dumb A Simple Favor, 2018 Here we are... another movie set in Fairfield County and another impossibly gorgeous modern house. While the movie wasn't filmed in Connecticut, we can play that game again of "guess where this movie would take place if they named a place?" This one would be New Canaan. We can … [Read more...]
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse (1948)
Bland Brandings Mr. Blandings Builds His Dreamhouse, 1948 You know what's crazy about movies? Especially older ones like this one? This movie was a short story and then a serial story and then a book and then a radio show and then a radio serial and then a television show and then this movie... And then it was … [Read more...]
CTMQ’s Guide to Brookfield
Everything Brookfield I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Brookfield CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. That is the ultimate goal of CTMQ. … [Read more...]
Brookfield’s Town Trails
Brookfield's Town Trails Ah, Brookfield. Fairfield County's finest town. Checks notes What? It's not the ultimate Gold Coast hedgefund enclave? It's a rather sleepy little town squished between Lake Candlewood and the Housatonic River? With a bunch of trailed properties, several of which criss-cross farmed hay … [Read more...]
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