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Connecticut State Police Museum and Educational Center

September 7, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

An Arresting Museum Meriden (Google Maps location) February 28, 2015 I am good friends with several cops. Only one is a state policeman, and he's in Maryland. And actually, although I went to his (first) wedding and lived with him for a spell, we haven't spoken in well over a decade. Shout out to Tags. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Damian, Free Museums, Meriden

McGuff Museum of Girl Scout History

July 19, 2021 by Steve 4 Comments

Gurrrlll North Haven (Google Maps location) May 2019 The best story from my visit to the McGuff Museum of Girl Scout History does not lie in the artifacts lovingly collected and placed for exhibit in the bowels of a large building in North Haven. No, the best story surrounds the fact that I, a 40-something man … [Read more...]

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Old Stone Schoolhouse History Museum

July 12, 2021 by Steve 2 Comments

Virulent History Wolcott (Google Maps location) June 2021 According to my accounting, Wolcott's Old Stone Schoolhouse Museum is the 468th Connecticut museum I've visited. Give or take. As you can well imagine, I've been to several old museums, several stone museums, and several schoolhouse museums at this point. … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Free Museums, School Houses, Town History, Wolcott

Watertown History Museum

July 5, 2021 by Steve 1 Comment

Watered Down Watertown (Google Maps location) June 12, 2021 At some point during my decades-long journey of chronicling visits to every museum in Connecticut I decided to be nicer to the tiny little town history museums. They are volunteer-staffed and donation dependent. They are labors of love and are often in … [Read more...]

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Vintage Hi-Fi Museum (Closed)

May 24, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Waltzing Through Another Museum West Hartford (Google Maps location) June 2015 Connecticut museum visit #292. This place probably closed uncermoniously during the pandemic or shortly thereafter. As a West Hartford resident since 2000, I've seen the building at 485 New Park Avenue rise and fall... and rise … [Read more...]

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Deming-Young Farm & House

May 10, 2021 by Steve 1 Comment

What's Old is Newington Again Deming-Young Farm & House, Newington (Google Maps location) June 2015 Connecticut museum visit #293. I have a skewed view of Newington's Deming-Young Farm and House Museum simply because I visited it on Connecticut's annual Open House Day. My sons and I got the full show with … [Read more...]

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Gasoline Alley Automotive/Ford Museum

April 29, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Full Gas Stafford (Google Maps location) October 2017 I do not know if Donald Passardi still opens his private museum to visitors. Information on this place is very hard to come by these days - not that it was ever easy. Heck, I've never been sure what the name of this place is. I've seen it as Gasoline Alley … [Read more...]

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Eliot Noyes House

March 8, 2021 by Steve Leave a Comment

Bring the Noyes New Canaan (Google Maps location) November 13, 2020 The pandemic year of 2020, we can all agree, was pretty terrible. My little family of four was fortunate to make it through the year uninfected, but we knew many who were not so lucky. Calvin and I remained as active as we could, hiking and … [Read more...]

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The Schumacher Gallery at Westover School

September 21, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

Getting One Over on Westover Middlebury (Google Maps location) June 3, 2019 I won't lie. I was more interested in visiting the Schumacher Gallery at Westover School in Middlebury because the school was designed by Connecticut architectural superhero Theodate Riddle Pope than for any art gallery hidden away within. … [Read more...]

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Guilford Smith Library Museum

July 25, 2020 by Steve Leave a Comment

... Where They Bury the Lies Windham (Google Maps location) January 5, 2019 For the thousands of you who have already read about my visit to the Edward A. Card Photography Museum, you know the deal here. For those that shamefully haven't, the deal is that there are two museums at the Guilford Smith Library, and I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Free Museums, Libraries, Rarely Open, Tiny Museums, Windham

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