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Last Chance to Be a Kid at Mystic Seaport in Connecticut
More boats at children's museum There’s one more Monday in August for adults to get in for the kids’ admission price to Mystic Seaport in Mystic, CT. So in this case, a family of two adults and two...
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What We Did on Our Summer Vacation
And you may ask yourself Where does that highway go? With all apologies to the Talking Heads we know where said highway goes – wherever we want. Eat that train tracks! I put out a call to our...
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Barack Obama Corn Maze at Lyman Orchards in Connecticut
You thought the current maze of healthcare legislation was bad? Or the Washington twists and turns in The Lost Symbol? They’ve got nothing on the Barack Obama corn maze at Lyman Orchards in...
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Hammonasset State Park, Connecticut
Hammonasset's marshy side Here’s where you can kick it old school like Native Americans did before settlers came in 1639. This is a beach with a long history. Hammonasset means “Where we dig holes...
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Celebrate the Fourth of July, 1876, in Mystic, Connecticut
Mystic Seaport lies on the Mystic River near Long Island Sound. If you like historic re-creations and you’re looking to spend the Fourth of July 1876-style…well then maybe you’re not into such...
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Skip the Cuppa Joe at Yale’s Peabody Museum
photo courtesy of Yale's Peabody Museum The Peabody Museum of Natural History in New Haven, CT is about one thing and one thing only: the dinosaur exhibit. Duh. Okay, fine. There are rooms of...
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Silly Rabbit, the CT Science Center Is For Kids!
Fancy meeting YOU here! The next installment in my impromptu series on kids’ museums in Connecticut features the Connecticut Science Center, which opened in June 2009 and intrigues adults who have not...
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Get Sucked Into Black Holes at Yale’s Peabody Museum
In my in-box: “Black Holes!” In the message, there was a notice about a new exhibition at Yale’s Peabody Museum: “Black Holes: Space Warps and Time Twists.” My 5-year-old space fanatic son watched...
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Vacationing in Mystic, Connecticut
Mystic Seaport Most people have only heard of Mystic, Connecticut from the Julia Robert’s movie, Mystic Pizza. But New Englanders have known for years that Mystic is a fabulous destination for...
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Itinerary for a Mystic Weekend
Thanks to Hurricane Irene, I only got to poke my big toe into New England this summer – just as far as Mystic, Connecticut. While I was disappointed to have to hightail it out of the Northeast...
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