Windsor Locks: Complete! Bobby V's Here is the CTMQ Guide to Windsor Locks with my list and stories about everything I’ve done there! After a decade of writing CTMQ, I decided to try to “complete” towns. In that decade of traveling and writing, I had already done a lot of stuff in many of our towns already. … [Read more...]
Hog River Brewing Company
Turning Hartford's Bathroom Into Its Living Room Hog River Brewing Company, Hartford Multiple Visits Hog River's Hartford "Living Room" taproom closed in April 2023. As every Hartford area resident knows, today's Park River used to be called the Hog River. (It also used to be called The Little River, which is … [Read more...]
John and Madeline McClean Outdoor Education Preserve
New Trail and It's Grape! John and Madeline McClean Outdoor Education Preserve, Suffield August 2022 The Suffield Land Conservancy seems to have a penchant for long preserve naming conventions. Their newest trailed property (in 2022) follows the pattern. Whereas most organizations would call this the McClean … [Read more...]
Noden-Reed Museum
Windsor Locks'ed Down Windsor Locks, (Google Maps location) August 2022 On the surface, I live a pretty normal suburban married dad life. Minivan, yardwork, soccer games. But lurking beneath that veneer of normalcy is a weirdo who aims to go to every museum in the state. Many hundreds of them. And not only that, … [Read more...]
Hanging Hills Brewing Company (Closed)
Hanging in There Hanging Hills Brewing Company, Hartford Multiple Visits Hanging Hills closed in March 2020. Sometimes I am forced to write up a brewery after it closes. And that's never fun. Like right now. This isn't fun. Wait... lemme go grab a fresh Hanging Hills beer out of the fridge to lighten the mood a … [Read more...]
Dom’s Creamery
Dommmm-dom-dom-Domp! Dom's Creamery, Avon July 2022 The way things are trending, Avon might be renamed Dom at some point. Unrelated, but I just remembered that in the 17th century, the area that is now Avon used to be called Nod (and Nod Road still exists along the Farmington River here), so Dom is sort of like … [Read more...]
The Jumping Frog
Pack it up, pack it in, let me begin... The Jumping Frog, Hartford Here I am in August of 2022 writing about a used bookstore that I first visited in... I'll say... 1996. And then again many, many times in the late 1990's when it was located at the corner of Prospect and Farmington Avenues in Hartford. … [Read more...]
Edward V. Sabotka Civil War Museum
It's All About the Union Windsor Locks, (Google Maps location) October 2017 Because I couldn't differentiate between Memorial Hall Museum and the Edward Sabotka Civil War Museum, I've combined the two but have published two separate pages. But I've given this page a brilliant title; it's a reference to The Wire … [Read more...]
Memorial Hall Museum
Thanks For The Memories Windsor Locks, (Google Maps location) October 2017 Because I couldn't differentiate between Memorial Hall Museum and the Edward Sobatka Civil War Museum, I've combined the two but have published two separate pages. Memorial Hall is a striking building, right in the center of Windsor … [Read more...]
ARRL Heritage Museum
Go Ahead, Ham it Up Newington (Google Maps location) August 2016 Hoo boy. Here's a museum that I'm afraid I don't know much about. I clearly visited it. I clearly spent a good amount of time there. And I was clearly welcomed by the kind folks in Newington: Awwww *blushing*. That was very sweet. You … [Read more...]
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