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Salisbury Cannon Museum (Closed)

March 9, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Adding to the Canon Salisbury When I began this website in 2006, the Salisbury Cannon Museum's website was exactly the same as it is in 2022. The same pictures, the same URL, and the same note that it is "currently closed." I don't know about you, but "currently closed" offers hope that it will reopen someday. … [Read more...]

Valley Falls Falls

March 8, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Fallin' Fallin' Fallin' Valley Falls Falls, Vernon March 2021 Yup, another semi-fake little waterfall gets its own page here on the mighty CTMQ dot org. A falls I've previously stood next to at least twice in my life and never felt the need to document in any meaningful way. In fact, I apparently thought … [Read more...]

East Canaan Post Office

March 7, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Canaaaaaaaaaaan! East Canaan Post Office, North Canaan I'm annoyed with myself. I'm annoyed I started noticing unique post offices around Connecticut and now I "have to" document them and write a bunch of sentences about them. In the end, they're just post offices, y'know? This one in the East Canaan section … [Read more...]

Bristol Sports Hall of Fame

March 3, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

Taking Jabs Bristol (Google Maps location) June 11, 2016 So there we were, my son Calvin and I, finishing up at the Bristol Historical Society Museum, also located in the stately old Bristol High School, looking to explore and enjoy the Bristol Sports Hall of Fame. I don't visit and write about every town's … [Read more...]

Jumpfest

February 25, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

Jumpin' Jehosaphat JumpFest, Salisbury February 2022 When I planned to hit up Jumpfest in Salisbury, I went to Google Maps to plot out my route via whatever confusing and twisty backroads I'd be driving on. Having experienced the backroads in the mountains there for various hikes, I knew what to expect. … [Read more...]

Veracious Brewing Company (Closed)

February 24, 2022 by Steve 2 Comments

Pew-Pew Veracious Brewing Company, Monroe April 2016 Veracious Brewing closed at the end of May 2022. I'm going to be as veracious as possible on this page. Not that that's anything new here, but I thought I'd mention it. I'm writing about my one and only 2016 visit to Veracious in... 2022. It has been six … [Read more...]

New England Accordion Museum

February 22, 2022 by Steve 6 Comments

Accordion To My Notes... North Canaan (Google Maps location) February 2022 The accordion was invented some 200 years ago, and its American heyday stretched from 1925 to 1960. The instrument is heavy and unwieldy. It cannot play quietly and it can be as piercing as a garbage truck's squealing brakes. The accordion … [Read more...]

Staffordville Post Office

February 21, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

The Whole Package Staffordville Post Office, Stafford If you ever find yourself driving around Staffordville and western Union and become lost in the thought that you've somehow driven off the grid to somewhere in, oh I don't know, Michigan's upper peninsula somehow, this creepy post office may wind up being your … [Read more...]

Stubborn Beauty Brewing Company (Closed)

February 18, 2022 by Steve 1 Comment

Humble Rodent Stubborn Beauty Brewing Company, Middletown First Visit January 2015, several subsequent visits The brewery closed in February 2025 after their canning line broke and a contract with Twelve Percent wasn't making financial sense. Call it education It was somewhere in between You gave me some … [Read more...]

Earthplace

February 17, 2022 by Steve Leave a Comment

"Hi. I’m Mike. Mike the Mockingbird. I'm Here to Mock You.” Westport (Google Maps location) March 26, 2016 Earthplace, "Where science, conservation, and education meet." Load up the minivan honey, we're taking the boys to... school? The way Earthplace sells itself, it almost sounds like that. But I'm here … [Read more...]