Hunting for a Trap, I Found a Museum East Hartford (Google Maps location) Multiple visits Tell me if this hasn't happened to you: You till the soil and plant your vegetable gardens in late spring, your crops burst forth in all their glory, a plague of rabbits burst forth from their hutch under your deck and … [Read more...]
Vernon Railroad Depot Outdoor Museum
A New Museum, Right on Track Vernon (Google Maps location) May 2011 CT museum visit #202. These days, it’s pretty rare for me to learn about a Connecticut museum of which I was previously unaware. So imagine my glee the day I was reading the column of the one Hartford Courant columnist I am sure to read every … [Read more...]
201. The Mansfield Freeman Center for East Asian Studies
I Think I’m Turning Japanese, I Really Think So Middletown (Google Maps location) April 23, 2011 Being married to a (south)east Asian woman and having produced two half-Vietnamese sons with her probably gives me a little more leeway with the Asian jokes than the next WASP guy. Oh, who am I kidding. Aside from … [Read more...]
209. Lyme Art Association
I’ve Got Lyme Art Association Disease Old Lyme (Google Maps location) May 18, 2011 It’s unfortunate that the Lymes of Connecticut (Old Lyme, Lyme and East Lyme are real towns, Hadlyme is not and is actually not even part of one of them. And while I’m stuck in this parenthetical, I might as well mention that Lyme … [Read more...]
211. Norwich Arts Center Gallery
EnABLING Forgery Norwich (Google Maps location) May 28, 2011 Have you ever driven around downtown Norwich? Of course you have if you've ever tried the "short cut" to the casinos thinking you'd just follow route 2 through town. Ha. It's a mess - a very oddly laid out mess. As we circled to and fro around the … [Read more...]
159. Weston Woods (RIP)
How the Weston Woods Was Won Weston (Google Maps location) March 13, 2010 Update: Morton Schindel passed away in 2016 at the age of 98. This place no longer exists as we visited it, and that makes my wife and I very, very sad. We both loved meeting Mort and could have spent a week with him in Weston. His house and … [Read more...]
179. Marsh Botanical Garden Greenhouses
Not Just Marsh Plants New Haven (Google Maps location) August 4, 2010 I went to a lot of places on August 4, 2010. It was my one day per year I purposely take off from work in order to visit as many weekday-only joints and I was on the go all day. I went to a few places you wouldn't necessarily call museums, … [Read more...]
The Peters Railroad Museum
Dave Peters: CTMQ Hero Wallingford (Private Home) November 25, 2009 All aboarrrrd! All aboard the Peters Rail Road Museum bandwagon. There’s plenty of room right now, but once this page gets read and zipped around, it may be too late. Why? Because the Peters Rail Road Museum is just plain awesome. … [Read more...]
PhotoSynthesis Gallery
Down the Dark Alleys of Manchester* PhotoSynthesis Gallery, Manchester November 2010 *Photosynthesis moved to East Hartford and I revisited, at bottom, in 2019. This was Connecticut museum visit #197. What a day. A surprise visit from EdHill, a hastily thrown together itinerary, A fairly well-behaved Damian, … [Read more...]
Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery
A Show of Hans… Who Likes Quilts? Hans Weiss Newspace Gallery, Manchester (Location) November 2010 Connecticut museum visit #196. The state's 12 community colleges merged into a single institution in 2023. To answer my title, I do not like quilts or quilting. And judging by this picture, neither does … [Read more...]
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