A Bit Hampered in Hampton Hampton (Google Maps location) December 11, 2011 Writing this website and traveling all over the state sometimes feels a little repetitive. Visiting our 200 or so historic house museums can get, um, let’s say Groundhog Day-ish. So what’s a guy to do to keep it fresh every time out? … [Read more...]
230. Creative Arts Workshop Galleries
I Can’t Stop Crowing About This Place! CAW! CAW! New Haven (Google Maps location) December 5, 2010 I don’t really remember how this place got lost in the hundreds of places I’ve visited and tens of thousands of pictures I’ve taken. But it did. Actually, that’s not true. It got “lost” because I never really … [Read more...]
195. Salisbury Association at the Academy
Salisbury Stakes It’s Claim Salisbury (Google Maps location) October 9, 2010 I had spent the previous day, night and this very morning hiking the high peaks in the Catskills. I summited several of the CAT35 peaks, slept on the ground, driven several hundred miles, checked out another museum gallery prior to … [Read more...]
191. Blue Slope Country Farm Museum
Feeling Blue? Then Go Here Franklin (Google Maps location) October 2, 2010 Hoang was pregnant and tired. Damian has never really enjoyed physical efforts or putzing around at outdoor events. I was struggling with inner thoughts of how I'd make the last museum we visited, the Ashbel Woodward House Museum … [Read more...]
190. Ashbel Woodward House Museum
Franklin My Dear, I DO Give a Damn Franklin (Google Maps location) October 2, 2010 When I say “Franklin,” what image comes to mind? That children’s story turtle? A key and a kite and a bolt of lightning? Ben Franklin himself? Almost certainly not Franklin, Connecticut. Franklin is one of our smaller, … [Read more...]
Arts Council of Gr. New Haven Galleries (Closed)
Four Dates for Art New Haven (Google Maps location) Varying Dates There were four galleries that make up the Arts Council of Greater New Haven Galleries back when I started this website. They were the Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery, Gallery 195, The Parachute Factory, and Haskins Laboratories Gallery. As is … [Read more...]
Rockfall Foundation & Col. C.S. Wadsworth Living Museum
The Rockfall Files Middletown (Google Maps location) May 2011 Connecticut museum visit #204. Perhaps you're not old enough to remember the show that my title alludes to, but if not I have a slightly newer pop culture reference for a secondary title: "Trees Glorious Trees!" Remember those "Cheese, … [Read more...]
182. Wadsworth Mansion at Long Hill Estate
It’s a Lovely Building, For What That’s WadsWorth Middletown (Google Maps location) August 4, 2010 My visit to this place came at the end of a full day of traveling around central Connecticut for CTMQ. I had some food stops and a bunch of National Historic Landmark stops down in New Haven, but looking back upon … [Read more...]
180. Ethnic Heritage Center
Welcome to UkranItalAfriJewPotatoStan New Haven (Google Maps location) August 4, 2010 Ah, beautiful New Haven. Famed for its venerable university with brilliant students, incredible history and world class museums. Museums like The Ethnic Heritage Center, housed in what appears to be a giant cargo ship … [Read more...]
172. King House Museum
My Day with the King of Suffield Suffield (Google Maps location) June 9, 2010 Two years prior to my King House visit, I was nearby along the beautiful route 75 in Suffield at another historic house museum, the Phelps-Hatheway Museum (my visit here), and I think it was only then that I learned of the King House … [Read more...]
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