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Spring Park

September 22, 2022 by Steve 3 Comments

Boing-Boing! Spring Park, Windsor Locks September 2022 There I was, smugly proud of myself for "completing" the town of Windsor Locks. All museums and places of interest and trails done and written up. After telling the world, I was almost immediately reminded why I try to always put "completed" in quotation … [Read more...]

Weir Farm National Historical Park

September 21, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

First Impressions Are Everything Wilton & Ridgefield (Google Maps location) May 25, 2017 Weir Farm is a lot of things beyond being "just" a museum. It was Connecticut's only National Park(ish) for years and years until Coltsville in Hartford got its NHP designation more recently - but that still has a long way to … [Read more...]

Ethel Walker Woods and Town Forest

September 20, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

We Can All Be Ethel Walkers Ethel Walker Woods and Town Forest, Simsbury September 2022 This is a weird one for me. I took the boys here several years ago and only have vague recollections of what happened. We didn't get too far, but I don't know if that was because of Damian, Calvin, me, or a combination thereof. … [Read more...]

East Haddam Swing Bridge

September 19, 2022 by Steve 3 Comments

Swing Out Sister East Haddam Swing Bridge Haddam & East Haddam The good pictures on this page were stolen from Frank DiNardi's Instagram account. I don't know him. His photography is excellent. I imagine that having to use the East Haddam Swing Bridge on a regular basis could be frustrating. Although I don't … [Read more...]

Windsor Locks: Complete!

September 16, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Windsor Locks: Complete! Bobby V's Here is the CTMQ Guide to Windsor Locks 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 already. … [Read more...]

Castle Hill Chocolate

September 15, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

Sheeran Delights Castle Hill Chocolate, Newtown August 2022 I'm on my way Driving at 90 down those country lanes Singing to Tiny Dancer And I miss the way you make me feel, and it's real When we watched the sunset over the castle on the hill (hill) Over the castle on the hill (hill) Over the castle on the … [Read more...]

Goodspeed Opera House

September 14, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

Swingin' Good Time East Haddam (Google Maps location) June 10, 2017 Iconic. From a national view, there are very few things that are truly iconic in Connecticut. Yale, New Haven pizza, Mark Twain's House, Mystic Seaport maybe... insurance? The Whalers logo for sure. Um, Greenwich wealth? CTMQ? But if … [Read more...]

Hog River Brewing Company

September 13, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

Turning Hartford's Bathroom Into Its Living Room Hog River Brewing Company, Hartford Multiple Visits Hog River's Hartford "Living Room" taproom closed in April 2023. As every Hartford area resident knows, today's Park River used to be called the Hog River. (It also used to be called The Little River, which is … [Read more...]

Military Historians Museum (Closed)

September 8, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

They Lost The Battle and the War Westbrook, (Google Maps location) September 2022 The Military Historians Museum closed in January 2018. Very early on in this whole CTMQ thing I do... way back when the focus really was just museums... I "visited" some recently closed museums. This was back in 2009 or so. It was … [Read more...]

John and Madeline McClean Outdoor Education Preserve

September 7, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

New Trail and It's Grape! John and Madeline McClean Outdoor Education Preserve, Suffield August 2022 The Suffield Land Conservancy seems to have a penchant for long preserve naming conventions. Their newest trailed property (in 2022) follows the pattern. Whereas most organizations would call this the McClean … [Read more...]