Ginning Up Excitement, to Cotton Favor Hamden (Google Maps location) December 2014 & November 2017 This museum is located in one of those awesome areas in Connecticut where an invested person could spend a lot of time. Edgerton Park, all the East Rock Trails, East Rock Brewing... Yale is just a few blocks south. … [Read more...]
274. Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum
Putting the Ire in Ireland Hamden (Google Maps location) June 14, 2014 This museum officially closed in July 2021 but I'm not calling it dead yet, as Quinnipiac vows to keep it going perhaps in a more cost effective space on campus. This museum is part of the Connecticut Art Trail. I have a whole massive … [Read more...]
Farmington Canal Heritage Trail Intro
Farmington Canal Heritage Trail Massachusetts border (Suffield) to New Haven The summer of 2020 - the pandemic summer of 2020 - sort of forced my son Calvin and I to begin riding Connecticut's rails-to-trails in earnest. Nothing was open for visits in any normal way, so why not ride our bikes. Unfortunately, Calvin … [Read more...]
Naugatuck State Forest Intro
Naugatuck State Forest Ansonia, Beacon Falls, Bethany, Cheshire, Hamden, Naugatuck, Oxford, Prospect & Seymour Naugatuck State Forest consists of five separate blocks in the towns listed above. They are not necessarily all connected either. Basically, when you drive up Route 8 through the valley south of Waterbury … [Read more...]
Quinnipiac Trail Intro
Quinnipiac Trail Hamden, Cheshire, Bethany, Prospect, 18.3 Miles Began: October 2012 Completed: The Quinnipiac Trail is the oldest in the Connecticut Blue-Blazed Hiking Trail System, which is to say, it’s really old. Many tens of thousands of people have hiked at least a part of the trail since its creation … [Read more...]
Wentworth Homemade Ice Cream
I Went, For What It's Worth Wentworth Homemade Ice Cream, Hamden June, 2014 Here's the craziest thing about Wentworth's: It's never open on Sundays. "Fine," you say, "they're observing the Sabbath," or, "they want to enjoy a weekend day," or whatever. All valid reasons. But Wentworth's is just outside of … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Legend of Hobbomock
The Legend of Hobbomock: The Sleeping Giant by Jason J. Marchi (2011) Library As a Giant Master – no, really, I AM A GIANT MASTER – I felt compelled to learn about the legend of Hobbomock. In all my hikes across the Giant’s body, I never really knew how he came to rest in Hamden. Now I know, thanks to The … [Read more...]
No Worries Brewing Company
Only Been Once? No Worries. No Worries Brewing Company, Hamden February 2017 I’ve always enjoyed the accidental subliminal advertising No Worries of Hamden enjoys. As in, “I’d like to go to a brewery tomorrow, but I can’t decide which one.” “No worries.” “Oh yeah? Okay. See you there.” Brilliant. … [Read more...]
CTMQ’s Guide to Hamden
Everything Hamden I’ve been exploring and writing about Connecticut since 2006. After a decade, I began compiling CTMQ guides for each town in the state. I plan on “completing” Hamden CTMQ-style... as well as the other 168 towns, cities, and boroughs in Connecticut. After all, that is the ultimate goal of … [Read more...]
I AM A GIANT MASTER
Master What? I AM A GIANT MASTER Sleeping Giant State Park, Hamden I have done a lot of things for CTMQ. I am inarguably the first/only person to have done a lot of things I have done. I rarely think and don’t really care about hardly any of that stuff though. However, I very much do care about being the … [Read more...]
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