Literally a Boxcar Gertrude Chandler Warner Boxcar Children Museum, Putnam (Location) October 2016 Connecticut museum visit #335. I like books. I still actually read books, believe it or not. Lots of books. This wasn’t always the case when I was a kid and perhaps that’s why I had never heard of The Boxcar … [Read more...]
Woodbridge Farmstead Museum
Milkin’ It Woodbridge Farmstead Museum, Manchester (Location) July 2017 Connecticut museum visit #363. I'm very close to completing everything there is to do in the first five towns I've set out to complete. In fact, I completed Manchester a couple months ago. So here's a new post from a place in … [Read more...]
Wallop School Museum
When a Wallop was OK Enfield (Google Maps location) June 2017 CT museum visit #358. When your hobby is visiting every museum in Connecticut, you must – wait. Stop. Don’t make this your hobby. People will think you weird. For real. Well, at least get married before you do this like I did. As I was … [Read more...]
Martha A. Parsons House Museum
“Parsons Me, But I Need to Take Pictures” Enfield (Google Maps location) June 2017 CT museum visit #360 and is a site along the Connecticut Women's Heritage Trail. Remember back in the day when I started this website? Damian was a wee baby, Calvin not yet a twinkle in my eye, my hair was dark and my abs were … [Read more...]
Lance Arnold Gallery & Fairy Trail
Flotsam and GetSum Lance Arnold Gallery & Fairy Trail, Ashford/Willington (Location) May 2017 Connecticut museum visit #351. For those of you unaware who may happen to care, there's a CTMQ Facebook page. I pretty much only use it to post new pages when I publish them. I'll spare you my Facebook hate for now. … [Read more...]
Gene Pitney “Museum”
I Call Him the Vernon Rocket Rockville/Vernon (Google Maps location) 2017 & 2023 CT museum visit #346. I promise I won't bore you (again) with a dissertation and dissection of the whole Vernon vs. Rockville thing. Of course... I could... but I won't. I'll admit that The Vernon Rocket doesn't have the same … [Read more...]
Northeast States Civilian Conservation Corps Museum
For the Hard Corps Museum Fan Stafford (Google Maps location) June 20, 2015 CT Museum #296 As I begin writing about this place, I can’t get the thought out of my head that it’s probably on the state budget chopping block. The state runs fewer museums than you’d think and this one would be my guess for the … [Read more...]
Dehn Gallery (Closed)
DEHN-DEH-DEHHHHHNNNN! Dehn Gallery, Manchester December 2016 MCC's Dehn Gallery closed in 2019. The space was converted to Work_Space, a co-working and meeting space which also contains three tiny art galleries if you care to check that out. I don't. Upon reflection, I should have saved the Dehn Gallery on … [Read more...]
Enfield Athletic Hall of Fame
EnField of Dreams Enfield (Google Maps location) December 2016 CT museum visit #338. Easiest punned title ever? Certainly one of them, yes. This is yet another little place on my massive list of museums that we all agree is not a museum. But as you now know, I don't care. I made the effort to go there (and … [Read more...]
208. Fort Saybrook Monument Park
A Monumental Park Old Saybrook (Google Maps location) May 18, 2011 Here's the deal: This place isn't a museum and this page isn't going to get you to hop in your car and drive there. When I originally visited in 2011, I had read/seen it somewhere that someone called this park an "outdoor museum." And it got on my … [Read more...]
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