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Mory’s

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Mory’s

A Rare Bit of CTMQ Mory's, New Haven October 2013 Greetings! You have found your way to another of the very few, very rare CTMQ pages where I write about something I didn't really experience. As you see from the pictures, I was definitely in Mory's at Yale, but I must come clean: I didn't eat or drink anything … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Best, Unique, & Historic Restaurants & Foods, Food & Drink, New Post Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, Historic Restaurants, New Haven, New Haven County, restaurants, Yale

Handsome Dan

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Handsome Dan

Dead Dan First College Mascot in the United States New Haven I toured some buildings on the Yale campus once, including the incredible Payne Whitney Gym. It's such an incredible gym, I called it a museum and wrote about it. And notably, no one called me an idiot for doing so. In the lobby of the massive … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, New Post, Sports, Thrills, Tours, & Events, Superlatives Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, Firsts Onlies and Oldests, New Haven, New Haven County, Yale

254. Payne Whitney Gym

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254. Payne Whitney Gym

Poola-Poola New Haven (Google Maps location) October 12, 2013 You know what? I’m not going to do what I always do on pages like this and spend two paragraphs weakly explaining why I consider a certain place a museum when it is clearly not a museum. This is a gym on the Yale campus in New Haven that I’m including … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums, New Post Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, collegiate sports, New Haven, New Haven County, Not Really a Museum Museum, Yale

Andrew Leete House

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Andrew Leete House

L337 H4x0r Andrew Leete House, Guilford September 2012 Now, normally this wouldn't rate enough for CTMQ. But - and this is a big but because I'm not totally sure of the history here - but, when this house is taken with several other sites around Connecticut, it makes sense to be here. That and I drove by once … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: Dubious Claims, Guilford, Historic Houses, New Haven County, Yale

Gilder Boathouse

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Gilder Boathouse

Gilder... Or Gilded? Gilder Boathouse, Derby I'm not sure why I'm writing about this place other than it's a cool building. Wait, I think I'm writing about this place simply because it's a cool building. A building I haven't been inside and don't really have a particular need to ever be inside. But here we … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Houses, Communities, Libraries, & Businesses, New Post Tagged With: boating & sailing, Colleges & Universities, Cool Architecture, derby, Modern Architecture, New Haven County, Yale

242. Yale Center for British Art

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242. Yale Center for British Art

Right, Then. Jolly Good. New Haven (Google Maps location) November 9, 2012 The Yale Center for British Art is a Connecticut Art Trail site. Spoiler Alert: When coupled with the neighboring Yale University Art Gallery, you simply can’t find a better day of art in Connecticut. Oh yeah, both are F-R-E-E, free, … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cultural, Heritage, & Historic Trails, Museums, New Post Tagged With: "See Before you die" list, Art, Colleges & Universities, Connecticut Art Trail, Free Museums, Hoang, New Haven, New Haven County, Yale

World’s Most Powerful Tandem Van de Graaff Accelerator (RIP)

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World’s Most Powerful Tandem Van de Graaff Accelerator (RIP)

Once You Go Dark Matter, You Never Go Latter Wright Lab, New Haven The last public visits to this thing have come and gone. Yale is dismantling the accelerator, as its usefulness has run its course. Oh well, you missed out. My final stop during the special inauguration day of Yale's 23rd president took me to … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Superlatives Tagged With: Closed/Gone/Former, Colleges & Universities, Dubious Claims, Largests Longests Mosts Smallests and Tallests, New Haven, New Haven County, Yale

World’s Largest Suspended Natatorium

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World’s Largest Suspended Natatorium

Things are Going Swimmingly Yale Practice Pool, New Haven I spent a wonderful day in New Haven recently doing a few tours of unique and interesting buildings around Yale's campus. There are so many ridiculously cool things of note around Yale that I came away thinking I could do an entirely separate site called YQ … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Everything Else, Superlatives Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, collegiate sports, Largests Longests Mosts Smallests and Tallests, New Haven, New Haven County, Swimming, Yale

222. The Cushing Center & Yale Medical Library

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222. The Cushing Center & Yale Medical Library

Zombie Apocalypse Buffet New Haven (Google Maps location) October 2011 & April 2019 I always promised/threatened to bring my son Calvin here someday. Well, that day finally came during his 2nd grade spring break. And I was right - he loved it. As a result, you'll see a mixture of pictures from my 2011 visit with … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Museums Tagged With: Colleges & Universities, Free Museums, Hoang, Libraries, New Haven, New Haven County, Yale

187. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

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187. Yale Peabody Museum of Natural History

Ain’t Nobody Like the Peabody I Got New Haven (Google Maps location) September 11, 2010 Here I am again. Staring at a blank screen and 150 photos of a huge and wonderful museum wondering how in the heck I should approach this monster. Writing about the giants is by far the hardest thing I do for this … [Read more...]

Filed Under: Cultural, Heritage, & Historic Trails, Museums Tagged With: Calvin, Colleges & Universities, Cool Architecture, CT Dino Trail, Damian, Dinosaurs, Hoang, Natural History, New Haven, New Haven County, Yale

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