Horse Chestnutting Around Mortensen Sanctuary at Riverbound Farm, Cheshire September 2016 For our visit to the adjacent nature center, go here. I'm writing up these trails six or so years after walking them with Damian. I'm starting it while listening in to his annual PPT meeting. (The Planning and Placement … [Read more...]
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Mystic River Historical Society & Portersville Academy
Skeletons in the Closet Groton (Google Maps location) June 2016 I know you all just love when I insist on geolocating things in either Groton or Stonington and refuse to say "Mystic." Even now, with the Mystic River Historical Society of... Mystic. Look, it's in Groton. Groton, Groton, Groton. Of course … [Read more...]
Sichuan: Song
Sing It! Song, West Hartford April 2021 I am wholly unqualified to write this page. I know, I know... I've said this many times before on this website, and especially when it comes to writing about restaurants, and especially about cuisines about which I know nothing. I am a white man. I grew up mostly in Delaware … [Read more...]
American Crossword Puzzle Tournament
[Biblically Great (7)] AWESOME American Crossword Puzzle Tournament, Stamford April 2022 There aren't too many national championship events that happen in Connecticut. Sure, we have our UConn Huskies, but those games are never played here. I'm sure Trinity College's squash teams have won a few in Hartford, and … [Read more...]
Hyland House Museum
Hy-Ho, Hy-Ho, It¹s Off to Another Museum I Go... Guilford (Google Maps location) June 2016 Any reader of this website knows that there are a lot of historic house museums in Connecticut. (And, presumably, other surrounding states as well.) When I began visiting them and writing about then long ago, I often … [Read more...]
Clocktown Brewing Company
Countrytime in Thomaston Clocktown Brewing Company, Thomaston June 2021 Tick, tick, tick... the countdown to when I will say something terrible about Clocktown. It's surely a question on many of your minds. Because surely everyone reading this is aware that I've been friends with one of the owners, Ed Daigneault … [Read more...]
Pistol Creek
A Bang-Bang Hike Pistol Creek Berlin & Middletown Way back in the day, I worked for Aetna in Middletown. Very near there, on the border with Berlin, up sprang the Pistol Creek golf course in 2001. I'm not a golfer, nor will I ever be, but I do recall people being fairly impressed with the course. It looked nice … [Read more...]
Farmer’s Cow Calfé & Creamery
Ice Cream with Calfvin Farmer's Cow Calfé & Creamery, Mansfield March 2021 Just another typical 75-degree March day in Connecticut. After some hiking up in Chaplin, I rewarded my son with some ice cream. That's just how these outings have to work sometimes. Fortunately, there's often a new-to-me homemade ice cream … [Read more...]
Northwest Connecticut Fire Fighting Museum
Torr it Up Torrington (Google Maps location) February, 2022 There have been over 100 breweries in Connecticut for for a few years as I write this in 2022. There had never been a museum inside a brewery - or a brewery inside a museum - in Connecticut before 2020. (I write that having no idea how true that … [Read more...]
Al’s Hot Dog Stand (Closed)
Relish Connecticut's Bounty Al's Hot Dog Stand, Naugatuck April 2022 Al's closed in February 2024 to make way for an expanded gas station. I started "completing" the Roadfood "Eat Before You Die" list what? a decade ago? I actually plowed through the 60 or so places that was still open and then Michael and … [Read more...]
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