Tag Archives: Connecticut
Thursday Doors – Windsor Green Part II
Last week, I featured some of the public-use buildings around the Windsor Connecticut Historic Green. An interesting fact about those buildings, is that most of them are not historic buildings. Only the original section of the Library is on the … Continue reading
Posted in History, Thursday Doors
Tagged Connecticut, Doors, Huntington House, snow, Thursday Doors, Town Green, Windsor
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Hi Ho
Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work we go. No, this isn’t the dwarfs singing, this is those voices, he keeps locked away when he goes to work. This is our time, so here we go. We almost didn’t … Continue reading
Posted in Family, New England Life, SoCS
Tagged Connecticut, fall colors, Iowa, SoCS, Stream of Consciousness Saturday, tsa, Voices
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Thursday Doors – Elm Street Hartford
Elm Street sits along the southern edge of Bushnell Park in Hartford, Connecticut and it boasts several of the city’s listed historic buildings. Today, several of these buildings are occupied by CT government departments – Hartford is the state capital, … Continue reading
Posted in Connecticut, History, Thursday Doors
Tagged Boat Building, Bushnell Park, Connecticut, CT, Hartford, insurance, insurance row, Thursday Doors
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Thursday Doors – Sad Story
There are three major mill buildings in the Somersville section of Somers, Connecticut. The Picking House at 49 Maple St. The Somerville Manufacturing Company, across the street from the waterfall, and the much smaller workshop/warehouse behind Somersville Manufacturing Company. That … Continue reading
Thursday Doors – Maple Street
I should begin with a quick disclaimer for Paul over at Shadow & Substance – no monsters were harmed during the research for this post. In addition to being a favorite Twilight Zone episode, and the highway exit that I … Continue reading
Posted in Connecticut, History, Thursday Doors
Tagged Connecticut, CT, Doors, history, Maple St, New England, Somers, somersville, Textile Mills, Thursday Doors, water power, waterfall
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A Peek Ahead – A look Around
A weekend hike yielded the raw material for several blog posts. A couple of them require some research. A couple are reserved for Thursdays ‘cuz, doors. But the hike itself is good to go. And, the best part, well, the … Continue reading
Posted in Connecticut, Family, Photography
Tagged Connecticut, Hiking, Observation tower, Shenipsit Forest, Soapstone Mountain, woods
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Thursday Doors – The Gold Building
Thirty-five years ago this week, I rolled into Hartford, Connecticut for a permanent stay. I had been here in June 1981 for an interview, but it wasn’t until August 3rd that I arrived here from Seattle, Washington via the Trans-Canada … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Friends, Nostalgia, Thursday Doors
Tagged Connecticut, Doors, Dutch Door, family, Gold Building, Hartford, Peat Marwick, reflections, Thursday Doors, United Technology, UTC
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