I can't remember the last time I had a normal "weekend" - freelancers don't really understand the word or the concept - but there's still something a little exciting about Fridays. Don't worry, I'm not going to use the word "Fri-Yay." I'm just going to say happy Friday, and here's another roundup of random Connecticut-themed stuff to read.
-Do you like Connecticut State Parks? You will also like connecticutatoz.tumblr.com.
-If
you, like me, are freaking sick of all those so-called "New England
lifestyle blogs" that have nothing to do with New England (or lifestyle,
for that matter), then Gardenias & Mint, written by two friends who live in Hartford and Boston, is a nice antidote.
-Connecticut real estate porn, Weston edition.
-Connecticut real estate porn, Unnamed Coastal Town edition.
-Connecticut real estate porn, Old Saybrook edition, featuring a lighthouse.
-Here's a look at state fossils, including ours, a "set of fossilised tracks made around 200 million years ago, by some kind of predator stomping through Connecticut."
-It's not every day you see Connecticut mentioned in the Times of Israel, and I was certainly not expecting to see Rocky Hill and Wilbur Cross turn up in a long, horrifying, and fascinating article on the "template for the Holocaust" that the Germans perpetrated in early 20th century Africa.
-If you haven't heard, the U.S. metro area that most closely demographically resembles the U.S.A. as a whole (i.e., the city that should be known as the epitome of "normal America") is... New Haven. Number three on the list? Hartford.
-And finally, aside from the assertion that Connecticut's " " (I mean, seriously, what is going on in American schools these days!? I can see history class has been eliminated, but aren't they even teaching these kids to use Google?) you have to like this little piece of content from HuffPo: 25 Reasons Connecticut Is Basically Heaven On Earth.
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