I'm Stumped on this One Giant Tree Grave Yantic Cemetery, Norwich Long time readers know that I’m not a cemetery guy. I’ve limited my pages about them as A) I don’t find them super compelling, B) It just opens up a whole world of stuff I’m not prepared to deal with on CTMQ and C) there are plenty of other blogs … [Read more...]
URR Trail: Norwich
David Ruggles Gravesite Yantic Cemetery, Lafayette and Williams Streets Holy cow. As I set my fingers to keyboard and get ready to write a short page about this Underground Railroad site, I just realized this is the next to last of the current 29 UR sites for me to visit! I didn’t even know. Pardon my lack … [Read more...]
211. Norwich Arts Center Gallery
Welcome to the REAL Land of Lincoln Norwich (Google Maps location) May 28, 2011 Have you ever driven around downtown Norwich? Of course you have if you've ever tried the "short cut" to the casinos thinking you'd just follow route 2 through town. Ha. It's a mess; a very oddly laid out mess. As we circled to and fro … [Read more...]
80. Slater Memorial Art Museum
A Full Slater of Art Norwich (Google Maps Location) November 14, 2008 [2015 update: This place deserves a proper revisit, as they've updated the joint pretty significantly.] The Slater Memorial Art Museum is a Connecticut Art Trail site Ahhh, my first Connecticut Art Trail art museum! Oh sure, I've been to … [Read more...]
Uncas’s Grave
The Last of the Mohegans Uncas's Gravesite, Norwich November 14, 2008 Not really. Uncas wasn't the "Last of the Mohegans" nor was the character in "The Last of the Mohicans" based on much of Uncas's real life. Which makes him all the more interesting as his "real" life history is a mix of fact and fiction. … [Read more...]
Sanctuary of Love (RIP)
Baptism by Bathtub Sanctuary of Love, Norwich November 14, 2008 Unfortunately I was a little late to this odd attraction. I'm still including it because it still exists to a large degree and because, well, because it's still a Connecticut curiosity. After the Hell Hollow area in Voluntown earlier in the day … [Read more...]
Yantic Falls (Indian Leap)
Well I'll be a Monkey's Uncas Yantic Falls, Norwich November 14, 2008 [Note: For my Waterfalls pages, I’m using the town designation used by the Connecticut Waterfalls 2013 guidebook. But that doesn't matter on this page. What does matter to you, especially if you're actually going through reading the waterfalls … [Read more...]
Benedict Arnold Birthplace
Wait - Does Norwich Celebrate This? Arnold Place, Norwich November 1, 2008 After a great visit to the Heritage Trail Vineyards, I told Hoang we were off to see Benedict Arnold's birthplace. She was demonstrably surprised by this, as she had no idea he was born in Connecticut. To be fair, neither did I until … [Read more...]
Concept of Freedom Trail: Norwich (2)
Boston Trowtrow Gravesite Norwichtown Old Burying Ground When you're trying to get to a billion places all over Connecticut, sometimes you must visit some at night. And upon doing so, your "views," so to speak, aren't the best. Such was the case here, at my visits to Boston Trowtrow's grave and the Jail Hill area … [Read more...]