Sunday, November 17, 2013

SSS: Connecticut

"The Constitution State"

Things to see & do:

-Long Island Sound shoreline
-Hammonasset Beach State Park
-Mystic Seaport
-Norwich's Mohegan Indian Burial Ground
-Housatonic River Valley
-Housatonic Meadows State Park
-Quiet Corner farm country
-Mystic Aquarium
-Essex Steam Train & Riverboat
-Stonington lighthouse museum
-Scoville Memorial Library-- the first free public library in the U.S.
-Long Wharf & Schubert Theaters
-Peabody Museum of Natural History
-Yale University Art Gallery & Yale Center for British Art
-Old State House in Hartford
-former homes of  Mark a Twain & Harriet Beecher Stowe
-Wadsworth Atheneum & Bushnell Performing Arts Center

BUT MOSTLY:

*EAT in New Haven.
-Louis' Lunch Wagon (old-fashioned burgers)
-the "grinder" (hot Italian sandwich)
-"apizza" (thin, brick-oven pizza, best with clams & garlicky white sauce)
[Apparently, Frank Sinatra enjoyed New Haven pizza so much that he had it delivered to NYC (two hours away) rather frequently.]
:)

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