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The Size of Connecticut: Wallace Stevens Walk, Hartford

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Monday, July 27, 2015. Wallace Stevens Walk, Hartford. Last week, on a perfect summer day, my friend Sally. Who Connecticut-based readers might know as the editor of Books, Ink. At HamletHub) joined me on a little Hartford adventure that had been on my list since I moved to the capital city almost two years ago. The Wallace Stevens Walk. ASYLUM HILL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. AN APARTMENT BUILDING ALONG THE ROUTE. ASYLUM HILL CONGREGATIONAL CHURCH. THIS 1913 MANSION HAS A GREAT STORY. A little side project:.

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The Size of Connecticut: Nutmeg Poisoning

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Friday, August 14, 2015. Here are some of the Connecticut-related tidbits I've been collecting on my browser's bookmarks toolbar recently:. It's always a little fun and more than a little bizarre to read about one of the everyday grocery stores of your childhood in Business Insider. The intern who wrote the piece loved Stew Leonard's. I wonder what he would have made of Finast.). Since I don't currently own a TV, it was pure luck that I stumbled across Season 3, Episode 3 of Mysteries at the Monument.

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The Size of Connecticut: Falls Village

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Monday, August 3, 2015. WELCOME TO FALLS VILLAGE. Think of Falls Village as a video that someone paused around 1850 and never came back to play again. The website of the Town of Canaan-Falls Village. Explains the frozen-in-time quality:. THE FALLS VILLAGE INN. THIS TRAIN CAR, AND THE OLD DEPOT ON RAILROAD STREET, RECALL FALLS VILLAGE'S PAST. TOWN OF CANAAN OFFICES. In terms of area, Canaan (or Falls Village, if you prefer) is fairly large, at 33 square miles. But the Falls Village District. The historic ...

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The Size of Connecticut: Connecticut's One-Room Schoolhouses

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Wednesday, March 4, 2015. I grew up practically down the street from an old one-room schoolhouse,. But I didn't really care about them - or begin to notice them everywhere I went - until I found this one. While researching a travel story. Since then I've found schoolhouses all over Connecticut: in towns, in cities, and on rural roads. I've also become very fond of them - strange, perhaps, since I hated almost every minute of school from kindergarten to college. Some of my favorites. Is a special one.

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The Size of Connecticut: Lowell, MA

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Wednesday, July 22, 2015. I had two reasons to go to Lowell. First, one of my best and oldest friends, Stephanie. Recently moved to the city. Second, Lowell is home to the Lowell National Historical Park, which tells the story of textile mills, immigration, labor, and industrialization in Lowell and America. As a Hartford resident, I was curious to see an urban national park, possibly similar to the one Hartford will eventually have in Coltsville. What we did in Lowell:. Lowell National Historical Park.

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The Size of Connecticut: Nutmeg Poisoning

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Friday, July 17, 2015. I love a good state flag take-down. (Like the one from the Hairpin. I linked to back in 2011.) Here's another from the Washington Post. Go home, Connecticut. You're drunk."). The New York Times. Found the curviest stretches of railroad in the Northeast Corridor. If you ride the train in Connecticut, be prepared to be afraid. ("The curve in Stonington, Conn., is the sharpest on the corridor."). My friend Jen Sharp (aka @CyclinArchivist. Hartford has music in its soul."). I’m a...

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The Size of Connecticut: Of Shoes and Wine

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Friday, July 15, 2011. Of Shoes and Wine. The August issue of InStyle maps the nation according to preferred style of shoe. There's Connecticut, between wedges (Boston) and ballet flats (NYC.) I guess that leaves us barefoot. Or else engaged in a fierce wedges vs. ballet flats rivalry. Freaking hilarious take on State flags from the Hairpin. CT is #18 and so funny and actually sort of true - possibly the best of these. Which doesn't usually happen with. The best of the Fifty Nifty United States.

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The Size of Connecticut: Main Street, Willimantic

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Wednesday, May 6, 2015. Main Street, Willimantic. Willimantic has always tried to evade easy categorization. Born as a small village on the Willimantic River in the early 19th century, it became a borough of Windham in 1833, then a city in 1893. In 1983 the city consolidated with the town of Windham, and Willimantic became a village - or one of four sections of the town - once again. Feels like your typical well-worn college town, except where it doesn't. Some parts of it are classic New England. Since n...

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The Size of Connecticut: And Things That Go Bump In The Night

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Friday, February 1, 2013. And Things That Go Bump In The Night. In the darkness of late Wednesday night slash early Thursday morning, the wind blew so loud that I thought all of Connecticut must have woken up around midnight and again at maybe 3:15 and then at 4:00 just like I did, waiting for the crunch of something falling, something being destroyed. For me, thankfully, the damage brought by this storm was not like last time. It consisted only of part of a day without power, and that brief night of fear.

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The Size of Connecticut: When In Kent

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Wednesday, July 15, 2015. JUST A GUITAR STORE. BECAUSE IT'S KENT. The Size of Connecticut is about, as the header says, local destinations off. The beaten path. This post is not about that. In fact, out of all the Town Center Strolls. I've posted so far, Kent (along with Mystic) is possibly the most traveled. But sometimes one finds oneself in extremely popular destinations, and I couldn't let the opportunity for a blog post pass me by. But as we all know, the lucky one is not always the best one, or the...