GMMMorning Middletown! Greater Middletown Military Museum, Middletown December 2023 Connecticut museum visit #515. As you read this page, keep in mind that this large museum has plans to expand quite a bit. Once funding is secured - largely through private donations and not just grants like the more well known … [Read more...]
NITRO Cream ‘n Crumbz
C.R.E.A.M. 'n Just Crumbz Leftover NITRO Cream ‘n Crumbz, Middletown July 2024 Straight up: This place is comically expensive. I'm going to do something I never do off the bat: explain my brilliant title for those of you unfamiliar with the lyrical brilliance of The Wu-Tang Clan. Cash Rules Everything … [Read more...]
Sergeant Stubby Statue
Woof Sergeant Stubby Statue, Middletown If we're to believe the entirely of Sergeant Stubby lore, this dog deserves even more than he got. And he got a lot, considering he was, y'know, a dog. I don't remember how I first learned of the rather incredible dog and his story, but I can tell you that the 2018 animated … [Read more...]
Pegasus and Niche Galleries at MxCC
Niche Indeed Middletown (Google Maps location) December 2023 CT museum visit #514. I might be the first person to ever drive to the out-of-the-way Middlesex Community College campus for the sole purpose of seeing its two tiny art galleries who is not a close friend or relative of an exhibited artist. Hooray for … [Read more...]
Adath Israel Judaica Museum
Oy vey Middletown (Google Maps location) December 2023 CT museum visit #513. I don't quite remember how I first came to learn of the small museum at this synagogue in Middletown. I would guess it was more than a decade prior to my visit. I probably was poking around online when I was completing my walk around … [Read more...]
Wadsworth Falls Covered Bridge
A Wads Worth of Poo Wadsworth Falls Covered Bridge, Middletown November 2023 You don't visit Wadsworth Falls State Park for the covered bridge. You visit it for the falls. Or the pond. Or the trails. Heck, you probably don't even notice the little covered bridge near the main parking lot in Middletown. But I … [Read more...]
Powder Hollow Brewery Middletown (Closed)
Hollow Thoughts Powder Hollow Brewing Company, Middletown May 2022 This location closed in May 2023. If you want to read a page on this website that shows you that I know nothing, this is the page for you. Or, looking at it differently, if you want to read a page on this website that shows the 21st century … [Read more...]
Pistol Creek
A Bang-Bang Hike Pistol Creek Berlin & Middletown Way back in the day, I worked for Aetna in Middletown. Very near there, on the border with Berlin, up sprang the Pistol Creek golf course in 2001. I'm not a golfer, nor will I ever be, but I do recall people being fairly impressed with the course. It looked nice … [Read more...]
Stubborn Beauty Brewing Company
Humble Rodent Stubborn Beauty Brewing Company, Middletown First Visit January 2015, several subsequent visits Call it education It was somewhere in between You gave me some sound advice But I wasn't listening "Hey Steve, you should probably write up your brewery visits within a few weeks or months of … [Read more...]
Rick Nicita Gallery & Cinema Archives
NiceTaSeeya Nicita, if Only for a Minute Middletown (Google Maps location) February 20, 2016 How many words can I possibly write about this tiny little place? Movies. Film. Cinema. I went decades of my adult life not caring a whit about this whole world of culture and art. I probably went years without seeing … [Read more...]
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