The Kids are Alright Stamford (Google Maps location) February 28, 2020 The state's flagship university has refocused its branch locations in the early 2000's. They closed the Torrington branch, moved the Hartford one, and invested fairly heavily in the Stamford one. (Which, as Connecticut's most modern city, … [Read more...]
267. Josephine A. Dolan Nursing Museum
Will I Nurse This Review, Or Just Milk It? Mansfield (Google Maps location) May 30, 2014 What up, SON? I said, What up, SON?" Oh, hello. That's George, a heart patient simulator at UConn's School of Nursing (SON) program in Storrs. He lies in the Josephine A. Dolan Collection of nursing history and … [Read more...]
281. Ritz Crystal Balloom Lighting and Style Museums
Just Plain Crackers Torrington (Google Maps location) November 1, 2014 The Ritz Crystal Room and Ritz Cafe have permanently closed, but everything on this page remains open as as January 2021. This place confuses me. It confused me when I visited and it confuses me now as I write. The confusion stems from the … [Read more...]
SeaQuest (Closed)
Mall Promotes Sloth SeaQuest January 2020 Rarely do I celebrate the closure of anything on this site, but I'm happy to report this nightmare closed in August 2023. I hate malls. All malls, y’all. I also kind of care about animal welfare and have a moral issue with sketchy small zoos and the like. And I hate … [Read more...]
The Paul Mellon Arts Center Galleries
Another Museum Off My Honeydew List Wallingford (Google Maps location) February 2015 Connecticut museum visit #285 I have a weird and perhaps unhealthy fascination with Connecticut's $60k+ per year private boarding schools. Jealousy? Nah. I think it's that I live very near several of them and they are just … [Read more...]
254. Payne Whitney Gym
Poola-Poola New Haven (Google Maps location) October 12, 2013 You know what? I’m not going to do what I always do on pages like this and spend two paragraphs weakly explaining why I consider a certain place a museum when it is clearly not a museum. This is a gym on the Yale campus in New Haven that I’m including … [Read more...]
420. Thrall Hall
enThralling East Windsor May 21, 2019 Thrall Hall, y’al! Yo, I said, THRALL HALL, Y'ALL! Yeah, that's right. You better recognize. Recognize what? Recognize THRALL DANG HALL, that's all. Since y'all likely have no idea what so enthralling about Thrall Halling, I'll begin with two quick statements from my … [Read more...]
Lincoln Financial Sculpture Walk
Honestly, Abe, Take a Shower East Hartford & Hartford (Google Maps location) May 28, 2019 I don't want to make this more confusing than necessary. Riverfront Recapture is an organization that seeks to reclaim the land along the Connecticut River in Hartford and East Hartford. A reconfiguration of the horrible … [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...]
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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