Damn! Nepaug Dam & Reservoir Trails, Burlington, Canton, & New Hartford December 2020 My favorite fact about this property is that the main paved path here used to be a road open to vehicular traffic. I don't know when this was changed, but I'm pretty sure it was in my lifetime. Yes, Torrington Avenue used to veer … [Read more...]
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Old Stone Schoolhouse History Museum
Virulent History Wolcott (Google Maps location) June 2021 According to my accounting, Wolcott's Old Stone Schoolhouse Museum is the 468th Connecticut museum I've visited. Give or take. As you can well imagine, I've been to several old museums, several stone museums, and several schoolhouse museums at this point. … [Read more...]
Shunock River Brewery & Village Cafe
Awww, Shunocks Shunock River Brewery, North Stonington February 2020 I always feel it is my duty to state up front when I visit a brewery in its first month or two. I also feel that if you open a business selling beer that you make, that beer should be ready to be sold. But all the other stuff like decor and … [Read more...]
Mad River Cascades
It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad, World Mad River Cascades, Wolcott In case you are unfamiliar with my list of Connecticut waterfalls, it is largely taken from a guidebook of Connecticut waterfalls. A guidebook which includes several "cascades" which the authors know are not waterfalls in any traditional sense. I'm fine … [Read more...]
NNL: Cathedral Pines
National Natural Landmark: Cathedral Pines Cornwall Designation Date: 1982 Most Connecticut citizens, when they think of pine trees, visualize a young pine tree of the kind ordinarily seen in nurseries or water company plantations. It will amaze such persons to see what the great pine trees of Connecticut really … [Read more...]
WR3 NHT: Andover
Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route National Historic Trail Sites Andover The Washington-Rochambeau Revolutionary Route (W3R) is a National Historic Trail that commemorates the allied French and Continental armies during the American War of Independence, and the hundreds of miles travelled to, and from, the … [Read more...]
Watertown History Museum
Watered Down Watertown (Google Maps location) June 12, 2021 At some point during my decades-long journey of chronicling visits to every museum in Connecticut I decided to be nicer to the tiny little town history museums. They are volunteer-staffed and donation dependent. They are labors of love and are often in … [Read more...]
Book Review: Newtown: An American Tragedy
Can't Do It Newtown By Matthew Lysiak I can't read this book. I tried. Then I tried skimming. I'd read a paragraph here or there and it would just wreck me. I honestly don't know who can read this whole book. Lysiak is a good writer and he does his best here, but it's just brutal. The book's first pages tug … [Read more...]
Book Review: The Kitty
Me? Ow. The Kitty By S. Flynn Oh dear. A man buys a house in Enfield and gets married to a woman who quickly leaves him but there's a cat there that he adopts and names Kitty. Kitty is a good cat and gets the man through his difficulties. The man takes in a few other abandoned cats and comes to very … [Read more...]
Hickory Ledges Farm Distillery
Hickory Dickory Hickory Ledges Farm Distillery, Canton October 2015 I've written many times about the allure of Canton. I can't think of another Connecticut town which has such a developed and busy stretch of box stores, car dealerships, and strip malls that is not at all defined by that stretch of box stores … [Read more...]
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