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CTMQ > Middlesex County

East Haddam Historical Society Museum

August 18, 2007 by Steve 7 Comments

I Haddam at Hello East Haddam (Google Maps Location) June 9, 2007 A couple years after this visit, the museum added a fairly large new wing. Perhaps I'll revisit someday when I have all my faculties. To catch y'all up, I had just visited East Haddam's Nathan Hale Schoolhouse. On the drive down to this part of … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, East Haddam, Middlesex County, Town History

Nathan Hale Schoolhouse (E. Haddam)

August 15, 2007 by Steve 7 Comments

Hale, Hale, The Gang's All Here East Haddam (Google Maps Location) June 9, 2007 There are at least four, yes four, separate and distinct museums in Connecticut honoring Nathan Hale. Two schoolhouses in which he taught (New London and East Haddam), one homestead (Coventry), and one fort (New Haven). This is all … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: East Haddam, Free Museums, Middlesex County, School House, Tiny Museums

Pratt House Museum

July 29, 2007 by Steve 3 Comments

Another Museum To Prattle On About Essex (Google Maps Location) June 2, 2007 Flashback to October 20, 2006: Essex, CT on our way to the Connecticut River Museum; "We also passed the Pratt House, another museum in town - but it was closed." Flashback to December 10, 2006: Essex, CT on our way back to the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Creepy Dolls, Damian, Essex, essex historical society, Free Museums, Historic Houses, Hoang, Middlesex County

Tour Stop 5: USA! USA! USA! Um… Czech That…

June 3, 2007 by Steve Leave a Comment

Games 8, 9, 10 Rookies in Cromwell and my living room June 12 & 14, 2006 Rookies has since closed. USA vs. Czech Republic For some reason, I get very patriotic when it comes to soccer, cycling, and hockey. I guess because we are actually the underdogs for once in those sports and the random successes in my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Food & Drink, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, cromwell, Damian, Hartford County, Middlesex County, restaurants, West Hartford, World Cup 2006

Comstock Covered Bridge

May 27, 2007 by Steve 21 Comments

We've Got This Bridge Covered Comstock Bridge, East Hampton/Colchester April 1, 2007 2018: It has been a long, long time since I've revisited this page. Or the bridge. So my pictures are too small. But... you'll survive. Connecticut has three remaining historic covered bridges and I've already been to the two … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, State Parks, Reserves, Preserves, Forests, NAPs, WMAs, & Campsites, Towers, Bridges, Forts, Tunnels, Roads, Canals, Dams, Fishways, Airports, & Ferries Tagged With: Colchester, Cool Bridges, Covered Bridges, Damian, East Hampton, Hoang, Middlesex County, New London County, salmon river state forest

Chatham Historical Society Museum & School House

May 27, 2007 by Steve 3 Comments

Ringing in the Museum Season East Hampton (Google Maps Location) April 1, 2007 With winter finally behind us and some other business tended to, it certainly was time to get "out there" and start seeing our fine state again. As it was a Sunday and sunny, I had decided that our little family should go somewhere … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Damian, East Hampton, Free Museums, Hoang, Middlesex County, School House, Tiny Museums, Town History

Connecticut River Museum

May 27, 2007 by Steve 6 Comments

Something's Fishy in Essex Essex (Google Maps Location) October & December 2006, with some February 2020 too It sure didn't take long for me to rope my wife Hoang into joining me to visit a museum! We hadn't really planned on going to the River Museum, due to some scheduling conflicts and a nor’easter - we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: "See Before you die" list, Damian, Essex, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, Hoang, Middlesex County, Military History, Model Trains, Nautical History, Ships & Boats & Submarines

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