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03/26/2008 10:43:23 AM · #1 |
My wife and I will be visiting CT for a week in June. We will be at the Foxwoods Resort. I am hoping that maybe one of you can recommend a tour that would take me through the farm lands and such. I imagine a tour isn't needed for the seaports, but thought it might be good to hit all of the farms and sugar shacks etc.
Any thoughts are welcome.
Thanks ever so much,
Bernard. |
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06/18/2011 11:39:49 AM · #2 |
| So, since this was never answered, am I to assume there's nothing here? ;) |
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06/18/2011 11:41:01 AM · #3 |
Originally posted by Cory:
So, since this was never answered, am I to assume there's nothing here? ;) |
Either that or someone responded to him through a PM....but I can't think of who that might have been..... |
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07/28/2011 08:02:53 PM · #4 |
| sorry i didn't see this sooner. could have recommended a bunch. |
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07/28/2011 08:39:24 PM · #5 |
Originally posted by blindjustice:
sorry i didn't see this sooner. could have recommended a bunch. |
I'm still there! Heh... This project is looking like I might be popping in and out for quite a while.
So, any suggestions would still be pretty darn neat! FYI I'm in the Hartford area.
Thanks!
-CB |
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07/28/2011 08:54:39 PM · #6 |
Most of my knowledge of Hartford is based on things to do on a break between Boston and NYC. The two I can recommend is the Luminist painting collection at the The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, and the Submarine Force Museum in Groton, which has some of the best grinders ( heroes, subs, sandwiches whatever you call them) in the world nearby.
Message edited by author 2011-07-28 20:55:43. |
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07/28/2011 09:21:23 PM · #7 |
Originally posted by Cory:
Originally posted by blindjustice:
sorry i didn't see this sooner. could have recommended a bunch. |
I'm still there! Heh... This project is looking like I might be popping in and out for quite a while.
So, any suggestions would still be pretty darn neat! FYI I'm in the Hartford area.
Thanks!
-CB |
You've probably already been to the Mark Twain home on Farmington Avenue. Or downtown to that, once fabulous (is it still?), Constitution Plaza with the boat shaped building with the glass facade. Route 44 in either direction is fun to travel. Go to the Bradley Field Aeronautics Museum and look at an engine (circla 1910) that my grandfather built, called The Elbridge Engine. I think it's one of his 3-stroke aircooleds but I could be wrong.
Are there still tobacco sheds in the area?
Heh Heh. can you tell I know the area. I was born in New London and relatives lived in Hartford, the once lovely capital of Connecticut. (Connecticut: the contradicting state connect - I - cut !)
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07/28/2011 09:26:13 PM · #8 |
Originally posted by sfalice:
Originally posted by Cory:
Originally posted by blindjustice:
sorry i didn't see this sooner. could have recommended a bunch. |
I'm still there! Heh... This project is looking like I might be popping in and out for quite a while.
So, any suggestions would still be pretty darn neat! FYI I'm in the Hartford area.
Thanks!
-CB |
You've probably already been to the Mark Twain home on Farmington Avenue. Or downtown to that, once fabulous (is it still?), Constitution Plaza with the boat shaped building with the glass facade. Route 44 in either direction is fun to travel. Go to the Bradley Field Aeronautics Museum and look at an engine (circla 1910) that my grandfather built, called The Elbridge Engine. I think it's one of his 3-stroke aircooleds but I could be wrong.
Are there still tobacco sheds in the area?
Heh Heh. can you tell I know the area. I was born in New London and relatives lived in Hartford, the once lovely capital of Connecticut. (Connecticut: the contradicting state connect - I - cut !) |
Heh, awesome! Actually no, I'd seen a model of the damned house in the airport made out of legos and hadn't really connected the dots. huh! Gotta go see that for sure!!!
3-stroke? Huh? Crazy I've got to look at that too!! Thanks Alice!
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07/28/2011 09:27:42 PM · #9 |
Originally posted by BrennanOB:
Most of my knowledge of Hartford is based on things to do on a break between Boston and NYC. The two I can recommend is the Luminist painting collection at the The Wadsworth Atheneum in Hartford, and the Submarine Force Museum in Groton, which has some of the best grinders ( heroes, subs, sandwiches whatever you call them) in the world nearby. |
I've certainly heard of Mystic (Bear_Music told me), and I've been meaning to make it down there - looks pretty darn great actually.
The Wadsworth Atheneum looks great too.. Woot! :) Funny how much traction this old thread just got!~ :) |
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07/28/2011 09:53:44 PM · #10 |
Originally posted by Cory:
Originally posted by sfalice:
Originally posted by Cory:
[quote=blindjustice] sorry i didn't see this sooner. could have recommended a bunch. |
I'm still there! Heh... This project is looking like I might be popping in and out for quite a while.
So, any suggestions would still be pretty darn neat! FYI I'm in the Hartford area.
Thanks!
-CB |
You've probably already been to the Mark Twain home on Farmington Avenue. Or downtown to that, once fabulous (is it still?), Constitution Plaza with the boat shaped building with the glass facade. Route 44 in either direction is fun to travel. Go to the Bradley Field Aeronautics Museum and look at an engine (circla 1910) that my grandfather built, called The Elbridge Engine. I think it's one of his 3-stroke aircooleds but I could be wrong.
3-stroke? Huh? Crazy I've got to look at that too!! Thanks Alice! |
Here's something to get you started in the aeronautics
if you're interested in that kind of thing. All of my original material has gone to the Smithsonion or Bradley Field, but I still have a complete photographic file of copies...
Message edited by author 2011-07-28 21:56:04.
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07/28/2011 09:58:44 PM · #11 |
Well then I will have to take credit for striking it up. What town are you in? The Wadsworth is a quite good; Brennan absolutely correct, the Hudson River School Painters are in good supply at this place.
If you get to New Haven, make sure you get to Pepe's, Sally's or Modern Pizza, the holy trinity of Pie; there still are tobacco sheds, the finest shade leaf wrapper tobacco in the world- used on Cubans clandestinely all the time. Mystic is good for Ships, tall ships at times, rustic beauty;
Gillette Castle is a nice place to shoot on the CT river. The litchfield hills have a shitload of hiking trails, as well as the cornwall bridge and Kent Falls, white flower farm and nature preserve in morris/litchfield.
Let me know where you are I might know some things. |
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07/28/2011 10:00:34 PM · #12 |
Originally posted by Cory:
FYI I'm in the Hartford area. |
Psst... you're an hour away from me. Kent Falls and Sturbridge Village are great locations within each reach of Hartford. |
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07/28/2011 11:59:01 PM · #13 |
Originally posted by scalvert:
Originally posted by Cory:
FYI I'm in the Hartford area. |
Psst... you're an hour away from me. Kent Falls and Sturbridge Village are great locations within each reach of Hartford. |
Kent is like 20 minutes from where I have stationed myself for now.
Sounds like a GTG in the making! |
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07/29/2011 12:38:15 AM · #14 |
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07/29/2011 09:07:47 AM · #15 |
I'm down.
And if we're doing a waterfall GTG, there's also Bash Bish/Copake Falls, and a whole slew of others within an hour of where I/we am/are. |
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07/29/2011 09:33:09 AM · #16 |
I am certainly in. Pick a date.
maybe early fall? or full foliage season?
Message edited by author 2011-07-29 09:46:43. |
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07/29/2011 09:40:35 AM · #17 |
| Ohh, this does sound like fun! I'm going to check with the project lead and see if I can predict when I'll be in town - I'd hate to miss such a wonderful gathering! |
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07/29/2011 01:11:59 PM · #18 |
I hear Connecticut is infested with ticks and lyme disease, which has turned the population into zombies. If I ever have to drive through that state, I'm switching the air vents to recirculate and putting the pedal to the metal.
Remember the Rules of Zombieland while in Connecticut and you should be OK.
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07/29/2011 06:32:11 PM · #19 |
Well, the leaves start changing colors in late August 'round these parts and are usually best in September. First frost usually happens the first or second week of October.
Tuesdays are the only days I can reasonably assume that I will have off, but most people have more normal jobs than me, so I'll let someone else pick the date and location. Who wants to organize? |
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07/29/2011 07:24:16 PM · #20 |
Originally posted by Strikeslip:
I hear Connecticut is infested with ticks and lyme disease, which has turned the population into zombies. If I ever have to drive through that state, I'm switching the air vents to recirculate and putting the pedal to the metal.
Remember the Rules of Zombieland while in Connecticut and you should be OK. |
Rob Zombie does live just down the street... But it is the most tame place on earth weather and animal-wise. you are more likely to be attacked by an insurance company worker.
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