How You Like These Apples? B.F. Clyde's Cider Mill, Stonington (Google Maps location) October 24, 2009 Since this first visit, we have been to Clyde's several times. There are some pictures from a 2013 as well. Since you were wondering, no, I haven’t used this title before. Over at the oldest operational cider … [Read more...]
Curling in Norfolk!
Curling Is Not a Sport. There, I Said It. Norfolk Curling Club, Norfolk February 20, 2010 Note: Some jackasses burned down the curling shed in 2011. But it has risen from the ashes and is back open in late 2013! This makes me very happy. You are not really a fan of curling. Oh sure, you pretend to be during … [Read more...]
ASME: BF Clyde’s Cider Mill
ASME Landmark #181 (1898) BF Clyde's Steam Powered Cider Mill Stonington You very well may have stumbled onto this particular page about BF Clyde’s from one of the other entries around the website. After all, this place shows up on CTMQ in many lists – as a museum, as a cider (soft AND hard) mill, as the oldest … [Read more...]
C.H. Pease Museum of Natural History
May I Pease See Your Museum North Canaan (Google Maps Location) February 20, 2010 CT Museum #153 No one will complain about me writing too much about this little museum. That’s because I don’t have anything to say about it. There is no information online anywhere at all and the signage at the museum was … [Read more...]
ASME: Jacobs Engine Brake Retarder
ASME Landmark # 108 (1957) Jacobs Manufacturing Company Bloomfield This is the ASME Landmark that really got me interested in this little list of eight nine rather random engineering achievements in Connecticut. Two reasons: One, Jacobs Manufacturing is only a few minutes from my office and two, I’d read a … [Read more...]
Apple Pie at Beardsley’s Cider Mill
A Pretty, Crumby Pie Beardsley's Cider Mill, Shelton October 2009 I revisited in 2024 and it's much the same, except they've added a distillery in a separate building a few hundred yards away. It's called White Hills Distillery here's my visit. Ah, bliss. An October weekend in New England with a trip … [Read more...]
147. James Morris Museum
He Knew George Washington! And Nathan Hale! And Alexander Hamilton! Morris (Google Maps Location) January 23, 2010 I often have recurring day-dreams of appearing on some "Connecticut Trivia" game show where they happen to ask picayune questions that only I know. After learning a lot about the unheralded town of … [Read more...]
NHL: Samuel Wadsworth Russell House
Samuel Wadsworth Russell House National Historic Landmark 350 High Street, Middletown, quasi-public Now this place just looks like a National Historic Landmark. I’d stopped by in the midst of my Middletown Heritage Trail experience and wussed out on poking around inside. Now I know I should have… Especially … [Read more...]
NHL: Richard Alsop IV House
Richard Alsop IV House National Historic Landmark 301 High St., Middletown (House is owned by Wesleyan and you can maybe check it out with a guide) Funny – I’ve been inside this NHL and had no idea. You see, Wesleyan’s Davison Art Center is located inside this beautiful old house, and I visited that a while … [Read more...]
NHL: Cheney Bros Historic District
Cheney Bros Historic District National Historic Landmark Blocks around Pine Street in Manchester, Mixed Ugh. How to capture a whole “district” in one of these short little posts? Impossible. Especially one like this one – which I happen to feel is a very important chapter in our county’s industrial … [Read more...]
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