Updated March 2019 “This place means peace to my soul.” ~ Theodate Pope Riddle Working in Simsbury and Avon, CT for almost twenty years combined, I learned many different routes to and from my home in West Hartford. The most direct route was over Avon Mountain which could be treacherous in the snow and ice, so my preferred…
My son is a junior in high school, and we are beginning to explore his options for after graduation. He is planning to go to college, and so we have a number of college tours lined up. We recently visited Pennsylvania State University (Penn State for short), home of the Nittany Lions in State College,…
I have been thinking about doing a series like this for quite some time now. I have seen and photographed thousands of houses over the last five years, and based on what I share here and on social media I have developed a good idea of what gives a home great curb appeal. Of course,…
As an Ambassador working with the Connecticut Office of Tourism, I had the opportunity not long ago to visit a number of Connecticut’s landmarks. While you can read about all of them in my recently published article, below is an excerpt about the statue in the feature photo of this post. “With the incredible popularity…
Portsmouth and New Castle, NH are neighboring towns on the New Hampshire coastline. New Castle has the distinction of being the easternmost town in New Hampshire, as well as one of the smallest, and is solely made up of islands. Portsmouth, on the other hand, is one of New Hampshire’s larger cities and is a…
Updated February 2019 On a recent unseasonably warm, sunny winter day I spent an afternoon in Hartford visiting the Wadsworth Atheneum and strolling through the surrounding neighborhood. Right next to the Atheneum is the Hartford Municipal Building which I hadn’t paid close attention to before. Nine random facts, in no particular order: When it opened…
