The Main Thing Here Is.. Vernon (Google Maps location) May, 2017 CT museum visit #350. I am hastily writing this page and probably won’t ever call attention to it. This is not a museum. [Update: Now that I've written it, it turned out to be way longer and more interesting than I initially thought.] Now, … [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...]
335. Gertrude Chandler Warner Boxcar Children Museum
Literally a Boxcar Putnam (Google Maps location) October 9, 2016 I like books. I still actually read books, believe it or not. This wasn’t always the case when I was a kid and perhaps that’s why I had never heard of The Boxcar Children series that has been around for seventy-five gosh-darn years. … [Read more...]
Woodbridge Farmstead Museum
Milkin’ It Manchester (Google Maps location) July 23, 2017 I'm very close to completing everything there is to do in the first five towns I've set out to complete. In fact, I completed Manchester a couple months ago. So here's a new post from a place in Manchester. Sigh. I knew about Woodbridge … [Read more...]
Wallop School Museum
When a Wallop was OK Enfield (Google Maps location) June 2017 CT museum visit #358. When your hobby is visiting every museum in Connecticut, you must – wait. Stop. Don’t make this your hobby. People will think you weird. For real. Well, at least get married before you do this like I did. As I was … [Read more...]
Martha A. Parsons House Museum
“Parsons Me, But I Need to Take Pictures” Enfield (Google Maps location) June 2017 CT museum visit #360 and is a site along the Connecticut Women's Heritage Trail. Remember back in the day when I started this website? Damian was a wee baby, Calvin not yet a twinkle in my eye, my hair was dark and my abs were … [Read more...]
Lance Arnold Gallery & Fairy Trail
Flotsam and GetSum Ashford/Willington (Google Maps Location) May 2017 For those of you unaware who may happen to care, there's a CTMQ Facebook page. I pretty much only use it to post new pages when I publish them. I'll spare you my Facebook hate for now. Because sometimes it actually does something good. … [Read more...]
Gene Pitney “Museum”
I Call Him the Vernon Rocket Rockville/Vernon (Google Maps location) 2017 & 2023 CT museum visit #346. I promise I won't bore you (again) with a dissertation and dissection of the whole Vernon vs. Rockville thing. Of course... I could... but I won't. I'll admit that The Vernon Rocket doesn't have the same … [Read more...]
Northeast States Civilian Conservation Corps Museum
For the Hard Corps Museum Fan Stafford (Google Maps location) June 20, 2015 CT Museum #296 As I begin writing about this place, I can’t get the thought out of my head that it’s probably on the state budget chopping block. The state runs fewer museums than you’d think and this one would be my guess for the … [Read more...]
Dehn Gallery (Closed)
DEHN-DEH-DEHHHHHNNNN! Manchester (Google Maps location) December 10, 2016 MCC's Dehn Gallery closed in 2019. The space was converted to Work_Space, a co-working and meeting space which also contains three tiny art galleries if you care to check that out. I don't. Upon reflection, I should have saved the Dehn … [Read more...]
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