Place/For/Art Fairfield (Google Maps location) July 14, 2019 There are a few little hip enclaves around Connecticut that may fly under your radar. Granted, “hip enclaves” in Connecticut are a bit different than hip enclaves in, say, New York City or Copenhagen or even Northampton, MA. But whatever, we take what … [Read more...]
265. D’Elia Antique Tool Museum
Just Plane Nuts Scotland (Google Maps location) May 28, 2014 What’s the dealio with this place? D’Elia is the dealio, that’s what. Oh what a tool I am. Here we are again, at a little museum devoted to the singular passion of one man. My favorite type of museum. The kind of museum that makes this whole … [Read more...]
440. Huntington Homestead Museum
Hunting in Scotland Scotland (Google Maps location) June 8, 2019 You’ll likely find this ridiculous - and you should - but I’ve always had this weirdly romanticized vision of what Scotland, Connecticut is like. This vision is formed, obviously, by its namesake country. It’s not exactly easy to get to for most of … [Read more...]
Union Historical Society Museum
Union Jacked Union (Google Maps location) August 2019 Union, Connecticut. You know, that town name on the last Connecticut exit sign on I-84 East that you pass on your way to Boston? The town that you’ve never been sure is a real town? Union. First inhabited by Nipmucks, and later, in 1727, settled by … [Read more...]
Pratt & Whitney Hangar Museum
HangArn a Minute! East Hartford (Google Maps location) May 2019 Connecticut museum visit #414. Visiting has become much more difficult now, with a badge-access campus. After I left my job at LEGO in late April 2019, I had a few weeks before starting at my new place of employment. With some free time, I did … [Read more...]
Barber Hill School House
Home of the Barberians East Windsor (Google Maps location) August 10, 2019 Connecticut museum visit #454. I think we’d all agree that this nearly empty little one-room schoolhouse doesn’t deserve its own page here on CTMQ. After all, it’s smack dab in the middle of the East Windsor Historical Society array of … [Read more...]
Farmington Valley Arts Center
Fusing Art and History Avon (Google Maps location) May 2019 Connecticut museum visit #419. When I wrote about Avon's nearby Climax Road, it reminded me about the Farmington Valley Arts Center. I had poked my head in a few times over the years for various reasons, one being my friend Eina Rieger had an … [Read more...]
Agonist Gallery
The Agonist and the Ecstasy East Windsor July 10, 2019 I often struggle when it comes to these little art galleries. Struggle with whether or not they deserve a hallowed spot on the CTMQ Connecticut museums list. After all, if you make it, fame and riches will assuredly come your way. If you don’t, well, you … [Read more...]
Burnham Blacksmith Shop
I’m Plane Nuts East Hartford (Google Maps location) June 10, 2017 Ahhh, yes, June 10, 2017. A fine day that was. Another year, another fantabulous Connecticut Open House Day! An annual event that I treat like the holiday it should be. I went to a bunch of places in the Connecticut River Valley, but found myself … [Read more...]
252. Fort Stamford
It's a Fort. In Stamford. Stamford (Google Maps location) July 25, 2013 Fort Trumbull, Fort Griswold, Fort Saybrook, Pequot Fort... maybe even Forts Black Rock and Nathan Hale. These are all Connecticut forts people may have heard of. But Fort Stamford? Miles inland from the Long Island Sound? Tucked away along … [Read more...]
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