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...]
418. 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...]
149. 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...]
Texas Redbud, Windsor (RIP)
Cercis canadensis var. texensis, Texas Redbud Loomis Chaffee School, Windsor Location: In front of Erickson Gym Height: 22 Feet Circumference: 12 inches 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. … [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...]
Oldest School for the Deaf in the US
American School for the Deaf West Hartford The American School for the Deaf (ASD) is the oldest permanent school for the deaf in the United States. What's more, the school became the first recipient of state aid to education in America when the Connecticut General Assembly awarded its first annual grant to the … [Read more...]
103. Cogswell Heritage House (ASD History Museum)
Deaf Jam West Hartford (Google Maps Location) May 28, 2009 2019 Update: I see that this place is now called The Alice Cogswell Heritage House. Certain museums give me that little burst that keeps me excited to continue this website. They are usually ones like this one: Small(ish), singularly devoted, … [Read more...]
83. Institute of Living Museum
Man, This Museum is Crazy! Hartford (Google Maps Location) January 26, 2009 This little museum has been on my radar since I began this blog. It's one of the first places I knew about that never turned up on any search engines no matter what criteria you used. I was proud of the fact that I was "in the know" … [Read more...]