FOC! (It's Closed) Fat Orange Cat Brewing Company, East Hampton Multiple Visits Before Closure FOC was located in a quiet residential section of East Hampton. FOC always closed seasonally. FOC closed to children and pets in September 2019. FOC closed their tasting barn and yard for most of 2020 and 2021. FOC … [Read more...]
The Nut Museum
I'd Go to a Nut Theme Park Transient March 2022 Yes! Finally! Back in 2006 when this website had a different name and a far more limited mission, I was bummed that I'd missed out on what was perhaps Connecticut's most famous quirky museum. Today, we have many dozens of similar eccentric little museums - and I … [Read more...]
Salisbury Cannon Museum (Closed)
Adding to the Canon Salisbury When I began this website in 2006, the Salisbury Cannon Museum's website was exactly the same as it is in 2022. The same pictures, the same URL, and the same note that it is "currently closed." I don't know about you, but "currently closed" offers hope that it will reopen someday. … [Read more...]
Veracious Brewing Company (Closed)
Pew-Pew Veracious Brewing Company, Monroe April 2016 Veracious Brewing closed at the end of May 2022. I'm going to be as veracious as possible on this page. Not that that's anything new here, but I thought I'd mention it. I'm writing about my one and only 2016 visit to Veracious in... 2022. It has been six … [Read more...]
Huntington House Museum (Closed)
A Hunting We Will Go... Unfulfilled Windsor Way back in the beginning of CTMQ in 2006, back when it was Connecticut Museum Quest and was solely focused on museums... this museum in Windsor had already (just) closed. I had no chance of ever seeing it for the purposes of this website. Therefore, it falls outside of … [Read more...]
Windsor’s Nuclear Reactor
A Glowing Review Knoll Labs Nuclear Reactor Site Windsor Connecticut is currently home to one nuclear powerplant: Millstone in Waterford. We used to have another - Connecticut Yankee in Haddam, now decommissioned - and there are, of course, nuclear submarines stationed in Groton. But there was another nuclear … [Read more...]
(Former) National Champion: Striped Maple
Acer pensylvanicum, Striped Maple Kongscut Mountain/Meshomasic State Forest, Glastonbury Big tree fans and big tree fans alike, you might want to grab a tissue for this one. Glastonbury's former national champion striped maple tree is dead. Like, snapped near the base and lying on the forest floor dead. Dead. … [Read more...]
Fifth Year Brewery (Closed)
5THYEA B EWE Y Fifth Year Brewery, West Haven And in their Fifth Year, they closed... ... Or, more accurately, in their eighth year of pretending to exist in any real or tangible way, they never opened. Say what? Am I really writing a page about a brewery that was never actually a brewery? Yeah. I am. But! … [Read more...]
LEGO History Museum (Gone)
Studly LEGO History Museum, Enfield August 2018 Alright, here's the deal. I worked at the LEGO North American headquarters in Enfield for a while. Just doing what I've done professionally for a long time. I was their "Consumer Insights Manager" and it was a cool role at a very cool company. Without boring … [Read more...]
Ireland’s Great Hunger Museum (Closed)
Putting the Ire in Ireland Hamden (Google Maps location) June 14, 2014 This museum officially closed in 2021 but not without controversy. It will be interesting what happens to the collection. This museum was part of the Connecticut Art Trail. I have a whole massive list of all the stuff in Connecticut that … [Read more...]
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