Doo DooDoo Doo! UConn Men’s Soccer Game, Storrs October 12, 2011 It’s not all about the basketball in Storrs. Nope. The men’s soccer team has a longer and just as successful program. (Yes, I’m fully aware of the women’s basketball successes and I think that’s great.) The UConn soccer program has 3 national … [Read more...]
UConn Greenhouses
Biology: The Study of Life... And What is More Important Than LIFE?! UConn Storrs (Google Maps Location) February 25, 2009 [Note: This page is merely a reprinted excerpt from a slightly longer page I wrote about the greenhouses and EEB exhibits over on my museums list.] Ahhhh, home. Like the plants on view, I … [Read more...]
Nipmuck Trail: Section 1A
Section 1A: Emphasis on the Muck Mansfield, 5.1 Miles (one-way), solo July 23, 2010 I almost feel like I should do a do-over for this section. Not only did it pour down rain the entire time I was hiking, but it grew dark prematurely and I didn’t quite make it all the way as far as I’d wanted to make it. Of … [Read more...]
126. Wilbur Cross Gallery
No Need to Get Cross With Me Storrs/Mansfield (Google Maps Location) July 17, 2009 I spent four (and, ahem, a half, ahem) years and several tens of thousands of my father’s hard-earned money at the University of Connecticut, earning a degree in biology. I loved it, got a good education, made a bunch of lifelong … [Read more...]
93. William Benton Museum of Art
A Real Bento(n) Box of a Museum Storrs February 25, 2009 The William Benton Museum is a Connecticut Art Trail site. I'd been to one of Yale's two large art museums (my visit to Yale's art gallery) and a couple smaller galleries at Wesleyan. I wondered how our flagship pubilc University would stack … [Read more...]
125. UConn Dairy Bar and Animal Barns
Lots of Damian Pictures... I'm Gonna Milk This One Storrs (Google Maps Location) July 17, 2009 UConn has a split personality. On the one hand, it's a modern University with a top tier basketball program known the world over. On the other hand, it's an agricultural school at heart; located in a very rural … [Read more...]
UConn Dairy Bar
I Dream of Jonathan. There. I Said It. UConn Dairy Bar, Storrs May 24, 2009 This site is far too big and often unwieldy. It has sprawled from just museums into all sorts of directions and sections. I recently began eating Jane and Michael Stern's to "road food" items - about 60 in all - across the state. They … [Read more...]
127. UConn Public Art Collection
Art: It's Everywhere! 30 pieces at UConn at Storrs, Stamford, Torrington, Farmington, Hartford, Avery Point Various Dates How can a museum span six towns across the state? When I say it can. UConn has a terribly unpublicized collection of top notch public art at several of its campuses, as well as the law … [Read more...]
UConn Dairy Bar Cheese
Juustoleipa! Juustoleipa! (That's just fun to say) UConn Storrs Since Connecticut's cheese makers haven't banded together yet to create the Connecticut Cheese Trail (a la the CT Wine Trail), I'm striking out on my own. And my first strike was at my alma mater: UConn. And the moderately famous Dairy Bar to be … [Read more...]
92. Homer Babbidge Library & Dodd Center
"She's dead. Wrapped in plastic." UConn Storrs (Google Maps Location) February 25, 2009 [Note: Several of the Babbidge Library pictures are from Jerry Dougherty's incredible compendium of photos of EVERYTHING in Connecticut.] Stop hurting your brain; my title makes no sense whatsoever. Well, it does to me but … [Read more...]