Place/For/Art Fairfield (Google Maps location) July 14, 2019 There are a few little hip enclaves around Connecticut that may fly under your radar. Granted, “hip enclaves” in Connecticut are a bit different than hip enclaves in, say, New York City or Copenhagen or even Northampton, MA. But whatever, we take what … [Read more...]
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D’Elia Antique Tool Museum
Just Plane Nuts Scotland (Google Maps location) May 2014 Connecticut museum visit #265. What’s the dealio with this place? D’Elia is the dealio, that’s what. Oh what a tool I am. Here we are again, at a little museum devoted to the singular passion of one man. My favorite type of museum. The kind of … [Read more...]
440. Huntington Homestead Museum
Hunting in Scotland Scotland (Google Maps location) June 8, 2019 You’ll likely find this ridiculous - and you should - but I’ve always had this weirdly romanticized vision of what Scotland, Connecticut is like. This vision is formed, obviously, by its namesake country. It’s not exactly easy to get to for most of … [Read more...]
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...]
237. Henry Whitfield State Museum
Stone Cold Cool Guilford (Google Maps location) September 8, 2012 The state of Connecticut operates fewer museums than you’d think. There really are just a handful, and many of them rely on partnerships with volunteers (Old New-Gate Prison in East Granby) and/or local historical societies (Prudence Crandall House … [Read more...]
420. Thrall Hall
enThralling East Windsor May 21, 2019 Thrall Hall, y’al! Yo, I said, THRALL HALL, Y'ALL! Yeah, that's right. You better recognize. Recognize what? Recognize THRALL DANG HALL, that's all. Since y'all likely have no idea what so enthralling about Thrall Halling, I'll begin with two quick statements from my … [Read more...]
Union Historical Society Museum
Union Jacked Union (Google Maps location) August 2019 Union, Connecticut. You know, that town name on the last Connecticut exit sign on I-84 East that you pass on your way to Boston? The town that you’ve never been sure is a real town? Union. First inhabited by Nipmucks, and later, in 1727, settled by … [Read more...]
Pratt & Whitney Hangar Museum
HangArn a Minute! East Hartford (Google Maps location) May 2019 Connecticut museum visit #414. Visiting has become much more difficult now, with a badge-access campus. After I left my job at LEGO in late April 2019, I had a few weeks before starting at my new place of employment. With some free time, I did … [Read more...]
Prudence Crandall Museum
Prudent and P.C. Canterbury (Google Maps location) June 2019 Yes, I've finally visited the Prudence Crandall Museum. On the face of it, it's "just another" large Georgian historic House museum on a quiet back road in Connecticut. One of a hundred. Heck, travel routes 69 and 14 starting at the Prudence Crandall … [Read more...]
Barber Hill School House
Home of the Barberians East Windsor (Google Maps location) August 10, 2019 Connecticut museum visit #454. I think we’d all agree that this nearly empty little one-room schoolhouse doesn’t deserve its own page here on CTMQ. After all, it’s smack dab in the middle of the East Windsor Historical Society array of … [Read more...]
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