Johnny, Get Your Gunn Washington (Google Maps location) October 25, 2014 When people talk Washington, they either talk "Gilmore Girls" or they talk Steep Rock Preserves. There's no denying the town has that "Newhart" New England charm and has some incredibly beauty spots. (If you're confused, the creator of … [Read more...]
Loomis Homestead
Loomising Large Loomis Homestead Windsor Windsor claims, with some authority, to be Connecticut's oldest town. And this house, on the campus of the Loomis Chaffee School, is the oldest house in Windsor. No, the transitive property (or whatever) doesn't work here. The oldest house still standing in Connecticut is … [Read more...]
The Schumacher Gallery at Westover School
Getting One Over on Westover Middlebury (Google Maps location) June 3, 2019 I won't lie. I was more interested in visiting the Schumacher Gallery at Westover School in Middlebury because the school was designed by Connecticut architectural superhero Theodate Riddle Pope than for any art gallery hidden away within. … [Read more...]
The Bess & Paul Sigel Hebrew Academy of Greater Hartford
Impressive J-Date Oldest Orthodox Jewish Day School in the United States Bloomfield/West Hartford I was initially drawn to this school because of its fairly surprising architecture. Surprising because it’s in Bloomfield and also because it’s an orthodox Jewish school. I mean, look at this building: It’s … [Read more...]
285. The Paul Mellon Arts Center Galleries
Another Museum Off My Honeydew List Wallingford (Google Maps location) February 28, 2015 I have a weird and perhaps unhealthy fascination with Connecticut's $60k+ per year private boarding schools. Jealousy? Nah. I think it's that I live very near several of them and they are just alien worlds to me. At … [Read more...]
422. Talcott Mountain Science Center & Academy
Night of a Quadrillion Stars Avon (Google Maps location) May 24, 2019 It's funny that it took me nearly 13 years into this CTMQ adventure to get up to the closest entity on CTMQ to my house. (Maybe Westmoor Park or Crown Market is closer, but not by much. Why am I even qualifying this? You certainly don't care. My … [Read more...]
Ordway Gallery and AoF Sports Hall of Fame
Yeah... Gonna Hafta Do This the Ordway Avon (Google Maps location) May 19, 2019 I have a weird fascination with Connecticut's private boarding schools. One reason is their exorbitant costs; usually around $70,000/year when all is said and done. But mostly because many of them have remarkably interesting histories, … [Read more...]
Mercy Gallery @ Richmond Art Center
Oh Mercy Me Windsor (Google Maps location) January 24, 2010 Even though I grew up in Delaware, which has a higher percentage of students attending private schools than any other state, the schools are just different up here in Connecticut. In fact, it seems that the entire private/prep school archetype is always … [Read more...]
(Former) National Champion: Texas Redbud
Cercis canadensis var. texensis, Texas Redbud Loomis-Chaffee School, Windsor I love this page and I love you for coming here to read it. Unfortunately, Loomis-Chaffee dug up this tree and trashed it in 2018. This National Champion tree. Shame on your Loomis. Shame. I wrote the following in 2013, before Loomis … [Read more...]
194. Tremaine Gallery at the Hotchkiss School
Beautiful Litchfield County Never Looked So Beautiful Salisbury (Google Maps location) October 9, 2010 I love Salisbury. In fact, I wouldn’t mind living up there at all. Oh sure, it’s pretentious and everyone drives Volvos and Audis, but that’s no different from where I live now in West Hartford. Salisbury is … [Read more...]