Praise for Consummate Connecticut
There's a line (or two) by a famous poet that calls to mind Stacy Lytwyn Maxwell's accomplishment in "Consummate Connecticut Day Trips with Panache:" "And the end of all our exploring will be to arrive where we started and know the place for the first time..." I would hardly characterize myself as an old-timer in this wonderful state of ours, but like anyone who's been here for any length of time, I am a typical Connecticut Yankee who thinks he knows his state and its many interesting, elegant and beautiful byways. But to read Maxwell's printed tour of places like Windsor and Hartford feels like knowing this place for the first time. In four hundred years of recorded history, Connecticut is a state of many facets, large and small, and it's a pleasure to see them displayed in a manner that makes you want to explore them all over again - or discover them for the first time. — Verne Gay, Newsday (NY) Critic
Excerpt from First Mother Town: WINDSOR: Read >> (pdf)
Excerpt from Third Mother Town: HARTFORD Read >> (pdf)
Excerpt from Day-Tripper's Bonanza: ESSEX/CENTERBROOK/IVORYTON Read >> (pdf)
Chapter headings include:
Slice-of-Peach Pie: Brooklyn
Rising Starfish of the Seas: New London
What-ta-Wonderful: Waterbury
Example of trivia questions:
What Connecticut town became the biggest onion supplier to U.S. Army troops during the Civil War?
What Connecticut town is known for attracting an eclectic blend of immigrants, Hollywood celebrities and homeless men once known as "tramps?"
(THE ANSWERS APPEAR IN THE BOOK!)
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