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Connecticut Travel Highlights |
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Mystic Seaport, Mark Twain's home, Indian gambling casinos, good museums, small wineries, and historic houses in pretty New England towns.... |
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Mystic Seaport is Connecticut's outstanding "living" museum of 19th-century New England maritime life Yale University in New Haven has outstanding museums, including the Center for British Art, the University Art Gallery, and the Peabody Museum of Natural History Hartford's Wadsworth Atheneum has a fine collection of over 60,000 works of art Goodspeed Opera House right on the Connecticut River in East Haddam is a Victorian gem mounting performances of American musical theater Nook Farm, in Hartford, was home to Mark Twain, who wrote Tom Sawyer here, and also to Harriet Beecher Stowe Several Native American reservations near Ledyard, in southeastern Connecticut, offer elaborate gambling casino-resorts Rural western Connecticut has beautiful lakes for swimming, inns either cozy or elaborate, and several good local wineries |
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Big pumpkin harvest in Connecticut, especially good for Hallowe'en!
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