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CTMQ > Simsbury

Simsbury: Complete!

January 31, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

Simsbury: Complete! Millwright's Restaurant Here is the CTMQ Guide to Simsbury with my list and stories about everything I’ve done there! After a decade of writing CTMQ, I decided to try to “complete” towns. In that decade of traveling and writing, I had already done a lot of stuff in many of our towns … [Read more...]

Filed Under: New Post, Town Completion Celebrations Tagged With: Simsbury

Powdermen Spirits Company

January 30, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

Pow! Right in the Kisser! Powdermen Spirits Company, Simsbury January 2025 Wow. Kapow. What a wild journey to get to Powdermen Spirits to be able to properly write this page. It's entirely embarrassing on my part. I know this. But when you're the guy doing the thing where you go and do and then write about … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Distilleries, Food & Drink Tagged With: Simsbury

The Ethel Walker Middle School Museum of Curiosities

January 28, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

"Curiouser and Curiouser!” The Ethel Walker Middle School Museum of Curiosities, Simsbury/Virtual November 2024 Connecticut museum visit #538, a somewhat difficult one for me to write about. It's not because it's an entirely online museum, it's because it involves 6th and 7th grade girls with names and faces … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: ethel walker school, private museum, Private Schools, Simsbury, virtual museums

King Philip’s Caves

January 27, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

King Fillup the Life Star King Philip's Caves, Simsbury November 2024 Don't do this. Seriously, local search and rescue teams are tired of dragging broken bodies from this area. So many broken bodies over the years that they have put a Life Star landing pad as close to future broken bodies as … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Biology & Geology, Everything Else Tagged With: Caves & Dens, Great Views, Simsbury, Talcott Mountain State Park

Wagner Woods & Hall farm

January 22, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

Nature Show Simsbury Land Trust's Wagner Woods, Simsbury September 2013 & November 2024 The Hall Farm parcel was added to Wagner Woods after I first published this page. I hiked the new parcel 11 years later. Wagner Woods I'll apologize up front. This is one of those pages that I put together for me and my … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, Land Trust Hikes, New Post Tagged With: Calvin, Damian, Hikes with my Boys, Simsbury, Simsbury Land Trust, video

Simsbury Free Library

January 22, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

Eno's Traffic Simsbury Free Library, Simsbury November 2024 Connecticut museum visit #540. Funny story: I visited this library within a week or two of visiting another unique library in New Haven. There was no question in my brain that that library can be called a museum. But this one in Simsbury? I waffled. I … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, Museums, New Post Tagged With: Free Museums, Libraries, Not Really a Museum Museum, Simsbury, Tiny Museums

Meadowood

January 16, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

I, Too, Have a Dream... But No Answers Meadowood, Simsbury November 2024 I try, with varied success, to be fairly politically neutral on this site. And I will continue to try on this page about some old tobacco barns in a farmed field in northern Simsbury as well. Mostly because I honestly don't know where I'd … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Dubious Claims, Farms, Simsbury

Hell Hole

January 14, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

Aw. I Think Simsbury is Nice! Hell Hole, Simsbury This page is a great example of who I am at my deepest core... for better or for worse. And I won't even burden you with how far down the Satanic rabbit hole I went just now either. Okay, so, yeah. I try to find all these places around the state named for the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, New Post, Religion, Cemeteries, Monuments, Statuary, Greens, & Outdoor Sculpture & Art Tagged With: Bushwhack, Satan!, Simsbury

Old Canal Way Trail

January 9, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

So Much Canal Old Canal Way Trail, Simsbury November 2024 99,999 times out of 100,000 times you mention the Canal Trail in Simsbury, people will assume you're talking about the Farmington Canal Heritage Trail. And, frankly, 99,999 times out of 100,000 times people mention the Canal Trail in Simsbury, they are … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Hikes, Bikes & Paddles, New Post, Town Land Hikes Tagged With: Canals and Dams, Simsbury

The Ethel Walker School Interactive Museum

January 6, 2025 by Steve Leave a Comment

Community Standards The Ethel Walker School Interactive Museum, Simsbury November 2024 Connecticut museum visit #537. Long time readers know of my fascination with Connecticut's boarding school scene. (This is currently even more fascinating to me as my 8th grader is getting looks from some because of the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: ethel walker school, private museum, Private Schools, schools, Simsbury, virtual museums

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