[Biblically Great (7)] AWESOME American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, Stamford April 2022 There aren't too many national championship events that happen in Connecticut. Sure, we have our UConn Huskies, but those games are never played here. I'm sure Trinity College's squash teams have won a few in Hartford, and … [Read more...]
Third Place by Half Full Brewery
"Only Wanna Co-Work With Youuuuu" Third Place by Half Full Brewery, Stamford April 2022 When I wrote about Half Full Brewery, which is not too far away and also in Stamford, I focused a lot on the founder/owner's Wall Street and corporate roots. About how he, Conor Horrigan, left the Street to get into the brewery … [Read more...]
EverWonder Children’s Museum
Ever the Wonder Newtown (Google Maps location) August 13, 2016 Newtown deserves great things. Its children deserve whatever fun and safe entity the town can support. Granted, the majority of the local kids visiting this children's museum were have no memory of - or were not alive when - tragedy struck their town … [Read more...]
Lakeside Diner
Lake With a Side of Home Fries Lakeside Diner, Stamford April 2022 Lakeside Diner appears on the Roadfood Eat Before You Die List for its donuts. Recency bias is a very real thing that we all suffer from. Try as I might to fight it, it's impossible to completely disengage from its clutches. If you're not … [Read more...]
Bartlett Arboretum & Gardens
Bart Lett's Go! Bartlett Arboretum, Stamford April 2022 One of my good friends grew up in North Stamford and over the many years of writing CTMQ, she has asked once or twice if I'd been to Bartlett Aboretum yet. She hasn't lived in the US for over a decade but this place was very close to her childhood home and I … [Read more...]
Veracious Brewing Company (Closed)
Pew-Pew Veracious Brewing Company, Monroe April 2016 Veracious Brewing closed at the end of May 2022. I'm going to be as veracious as possible on this page. Not that that's anything new here, but I thought I'd mention it. I'm writing about my one and only 2016 visit to Veracious in... 2022. It has been six … [Read more...]
Earthplace
"Hi. I’m Mike. Mike the Mockingbird. I'm Here to Mock You.” Westport (Google Maps location) March 26, 2016 Earthplace, "Where science, conservation, and education meet." Load up the minivan honey, we're taking the boys to... school? The way Earthplace sells itself, it almost sounds like that. But I'm here … [Read more...]
Book Review: Fairfield County Chef’s Table
Gold Coast Star Fairfield County Chef's Table, Amy Kundrat (Photos by Stephanie Webster (2014) I suppose it's only proper to note that the author of this book is a friend of mine, but I did purchase it on my own at full price for what that's worth. So, there's probably no way I'm going to say that this book is … [Read more...]
The Discovery Science Center & Planetarium
We're Over the Moon Bridgeport (Google Maps location) December 5, 2015 COVID almost closed this museum for good in 2020, but Sacred Heart University stepped in and assumed management of it. During the 18-month closure, it was renovated by the University and it it reopened in 2021 as The Discovery Science Center & … [Read more...]
Stamford Museum & Nature Center
Otters, Udders, and... Light Sabers? Stamford (Google Maps location) December 2015 The Stamford Museum & Nature Center is a Connecticut Art Trail site We visited the Stamford Museum and Nature Center in 2015 and I'll state here at the outset that this is the rare Connecticut museum that I will definitely be … [Read more...]
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