Dartin' Around Vernon Hockanum River Trails (VGV): Dart Hill SE & SW, Vernon ~2 miles total, February/May 2017 If you are reading these Hockanum River Trails south to north, you have already read the Pleasantview Marsh page. If you haven’t, it’s a fun one and you should. Better yet, start at the beginning with … [Read more...]
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CT H4H: Austin Design
CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 9 Austin Design, MA/VT I’m proud of every part of CT Hops for Hope. It’s continually amazing to me how many people give their unpaid time and energy to the event and the cause. One of my tasks is to help secure sponsors for the event to cover the upfront costs. That way, we are able to … [Read more...]
CT H4H: Fox Farm Brewery
CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 8 Fox Farm Brewery, Salem As i continue to write these CT Hops for Hope Spotlight pages, I'm continually pausing to process what it is I'm writing. After all, our little brewfest has secured a slew of breweries that you won't find at bigger fests. We don't pay for the beer and yet many … [Read more...]
CTH4H: New Park Brewing
CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 7 New Park Brewing Company, West Hartford It would be tough to argue which new CT brewery is generating the most excitement these days, for there are many in contention. One of them, without a doubt, is New Park Brewing in West Hartford. And that excitement is certainly warranted. As a … [Read more...]
Fire & Ice Festival
Melting Superlatives Putnam February 11, 2017 When Putnam was mentioned as one of the towns I was close to completing, someone commented on the CTMQ facebook page that I simply must get out there for the town’s annual Fire & Ice Festival. I was initially skeptical, as I don’t really go to every town … [Read more...]
A.K. Webster Preserve
That Soccer Field Still Gets Me... Northern CT Land Trust: A.K. Webster Preserve, Vernon May 2017 Ah yes, that soccer field. I noted it several years ago while poking around Valley Falls Park. I climbed high above the Hop River Rail Trail (which also hosts a mile or so of the Shenipsit Trail here) to check the … [Read more...]
CT H4H: Allagash Brewing Co.
CT Hops for Hope Spotlight 6 Allagash Brewing Company, Portland, ME When Organizing CT Hops for Hope, we are continually humbled at the response we get from breweries. This is something I could write about for days. It's amazing, really. Our list of breweries is, I think, as good as it gets in Connecticut. While we … [Read more...]
Vernon Center Middle School Trail
Redundant Redundancy Vernon Center Middle School Trail, Vernon ~0.75 miles, May 2017 This seems like a rather odd place for me to finish up everything there is to do in Vernon (as far as this site is concerned, but... it was here, high atop the hill behind Vernon Center Middle School where the boys and I gazed … [Read more...]
Eckers Pond
What the Eckers? Northern CT Land Trust: Eckers Pond, Vernon May 2017 Do not read this page as a standalone page. Hiking the Northern Connecticut Land Trust’s Eckers Pond Trail without hiking the town of Vernon’s Center Middle School Trail is almost literally impossible. And if not impossible, it would … [Read more...]
Arts Center East
This Place is ACEs Vernon (Google Maps location) May 2017 CT museum visit #349. What a joy it is to visit a little art gallery/museum with a just-turned-six-year-old who is totally into it. I could write 4,000 words on Calvin’s burgeoning art career, and perhaps I will on other pages more relevant to that … [Read more...]
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