Smokeshow Parrish (1961) First and foremost, Parrish is one of the Connecticuttiest movies ever made. On that alone, it was well worth my time. Sure, it's campy and over-acted, but the whole film uses the (rapidly disappearing) shade tobacco fields of Windsor and East Windsor as its setting! Many people in … [Read more...]
368. Farm Tool Museum
Look at These Tools East Windsor (Google Maps location) August 12, 2017 I was having a discussion with my wife recently and mentioned something about East Windsor and how I was excited to be closing in on visiting every museum and hiking every trail and all that good stuff I do for this here website. She kind of … [Read more...]
172. King House Museum
My Day with the King of Suffield Suffield (Google Maps location) June 9, 2010 Two years prior to my King House visit, I was nearby along the beautiful route 75 in Suffield at another historic house museum, the Phelps-Hatheway Museum (my visit here), and I think it was only then that I learned of the King House … [Read more...]
217. Pleasant Valley School Museum
Another Pleasant Valley Tuesday… South Windsor (Google Maps location) August 2, 2011 I’m not Monkee-ing around here. Hey, did you know the song the Monkees made famous (“Pleasant Valley Sunday”) was written by Carole King? I didn’t. But I did know that one of the Monkees, Peter Tork, was raised in the … [Read more...]
Site of the First Cigar Factory in US
Calm Down... Exhale... Site of the First Cigar Factory in the US 1073 Ratley Road, West Suffield At the very, very end of a wonderful tour of the King House Museum in Suffield, back in the cramped little tobacco history section of the house (Suffield has a rather important role in Connecticut tobacco production), … [Read more...]
Colton-Hayes Tobacco Barn Museum
No Hayes in this Barn Granby (Google Maps Location) July 2008 This is one of several Salmon Brook Historical Society Museums. Neither my blurry pictures nor the Salmon Brook Historical Society's website (they own the joint) do this place any amount of justice. The Colton-Hayes Tobacco Barn is the largest and … [Read more...]
Luddy/Taylor CT Valley Tobacco Museum
Tobacco Rowed Windsor (Google Maps Location) April 7, 2007 2018 Update: Oof. I cringe at these super old pages... anyway, this page used to combine the tobacco museum, now named the Connecticut Valley Tobacco Museum, and the Northwest Park Nature Center. I've separated the two which makes for a somewhat clunky … [Read more...]
The Edward E. King Museum (Gone)
Flying High with the Tobacco King of East Hartford East Hartford (Google Maps Location) December 13, 2006 2015-19 Updates: The library closed for a huge renovation in 2014. As part of that renovation, this awesome little museum won't really be a museum anymore. The artifacts are now displayed around the library … [Read more...]