( CTMQ Visit here.) Here in the industrial heart of Connecticut, where brass implements (Waterbury), clocks (Bristol/Waterbury), machine parts (New Britain) and locks (Terryville, New Britain) were made for national and international markets for years, there is a rich history of these things and several museums celebrating each towns’ past. After all, I was wowed a few miles away at the American Clock & Watch Museum in Bristol just a month prior. I shouldn’t have been surprised at the size of the collection. And thankfully there are those out there who find beauty and historical significance of these things to the extent that they’ve put together an incredibly large display of them in a museum setting. Unlock our desks with little crappy key locks. We get into our office buildings with magnetic strip reader locks. They are merely functional and important little pieces of hardware that we navigate several times a day without thinking about them. Not that either of us gives a hoot about locks.
Now he had… And like I said, he was loving it. He grew up in Connecticut and went to Yale, but like 99% of the public, had never really delved into the seemingly mundane to find the exquisite. Totally random, singularly devoted to one subject (Locks!), and decidedly quirky, I had created a convert in Dan. We went to a wide variety of museums, met some wonderful docents, learned a bunch of stuff we didn’t know we cared to learn and here, at the lock museum, it all came together for him (I think). Why? Because I had shown Dan a solid day of what this blog is all about.
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After a full day of museum going (you can see our itinerary for his profile of me here), Dan was positively giddy (and a bit punchy) nearing the end. So did Dan, who was wrapping up his day long CTMQ adventure with me out here in Terryville at the lock museum.
At the outset you should know… This museum contains nothing but locks. No, not me, but Tom Hennessey – the guy most responsible for the wonderful insanity (some blowhards would say inanity) of the Lock Museum of America. Come with me on a journey into the mind of a madman. Terryville section of Plymouth ( Google Maps Location)Ĭome.
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