Salisbury Stakes It’s Claim Salisbury (Google Maps location) October 9, 2010 I had spent the previous day, night and this very morning hiking the high peaks in the Catskills. I summited several of the CAT35 peaks, slept on the ground, driven several hundred miles, checked out another museum gallery prior to … [Read more...]
191. Blue Slope Country Farm Museum
Feeling Blue? Then Go Here Franklin (Google Maps location) October 2, 2010 Hoang was pregnant and tired. Damian has never really enjoyed physical efforts or putzing around at outdoor events. I was struggling with inner thoughts of how I'd make the last museum we visited, the Ashbel Woodward House Museum … [Read more...]
190. Ashbel Woodward House Museum
Franklin My Dear, I DO Give a Damn Franklin (Google Maps location) October 2, 2010 When I say “Franklin,” what image comes to mind? That children’s story turtle? A key and a kite and a bolt of lightning? Ben Franklin himself? Almost certainly not Franklin, Connecticut. Franklin is one of our smaller, … [Read more...]
Arts Council of Gr. New Haven Galleries (Closed)
Four Dates for Art New Haven (Google Maps location) Varying Dates There were four galleries that make up the Arts Council of Greater New Haven Galleries back when I started this website. They were the Sumner McKnight Crosby Jr. Gallery, Gallery 195, The Parachute Factory, and Haskins Laboratories Gallery. As is … [Read more...]
Rockfall Foundation & Col. C.S. Wadsworth Living Museum
The Rockfall Files Middletown (Google Maps location) May 2011 Connecticut museum visit #204. Perhaps you're not old enough to remember the show that my title alludes to, but if not I have a slightly newer pop culture reference for a secondary title: "Trees Glorious Trees!" Remember those "Cheese, … [Read more...]
182. Wadsworth Mansion at Long Hill Estate
It’s a Lovely Building, For What That’s WadsWorth Middletown (Google Maps location) August 4, 2010 My visit to this place came at the end of a full day of traveling around central Connecticut for CTMQ. I had some food stops and a bunch of National Historic Landmark stops down in New Haven, but looking back upon … [Read more...]
180. Ethnic Heritage Center
Welcome to UkranItalAfriJewPotatoStan New Haven (Google Maps location) August 4, 2010 Ah, beautiful New Haven. Famed for its venerable university with brilliant students, incredible history and world class museums. Museums like The Ethnic Heritage Center, housed in what appears to be a giant cargo ship … [Read more...]
172. King House Museum
My Day with the King of Suffield Suffield (Google Maps location) June 9, 2010 Two years prior to my King House visit, I was nearby along the beautiful route 75 in Suffield at another historic house museum, the Phelps-Hatheway Museum (my visit here), and I think it was only then that I learned of the King House … [Read more...]
219. Thomas Griswold House
I Want a CTMQ Keeping Society Guilford (Google Maps location) September 18, 2011 Years ago when I started this website and gathered up more and more museums around the state for my big list, I often questioned myself about one thing and one thing only. I knew I could visit them all in due time. I knew I could … [Read more...]
212. Nathan Hale Schoolhouse (v.NL)
”I Have But One Life to Give – And Two Schoolhouses of Course” New London (Google Maps location) May 21, 2011 I don’t know how many states have “State Heroes,” but I’m glad we do. Or rather, I’m glad Nathan Hale is “ours.” The house of his birth (that, as it turns out, he probably wasn’t born in nor did he … [Read more...]
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