Jun
29
Thu
Connecticut Trolley Museum Mobile Wheelchair Lift Dedication Ceremony @ CT Trolley Museum
Jun 29 @ 10:30 am – 11:30 am

 The Connecticut Trolley Museum (CTM) will hold a ceremony to dedicate their first ever Mobile Wheelchair Lift on Thursday, June 29th at 10:30am.

The lift will allow the Museum to offer access to their operating trolleys for visitors with mobility issues. The Wheelchair Lift will be used for visitors in wheelchairs or visitors who have a challenging time stepping up into the trolley.

The mobile wheelchair lift was custom made for the Museum by Adaptive Engineering, Inc. whose list of customers include Amtrack; New Jersey Transit; the MBTA (Mass.); and numerous historic rail operators including the Strasburg Railroad, Napa Valley Wine Tours, Rocky Mountain Rail Tours and the Pennsylvania Trolley Museum.

The mobile wheelchair lift was funded with the support of the Cigna Foundation and by two Donor Advised funds at the Hartford Foundation for Public Giving – The Vernon and Edith Roosa Family Foundation and Anonymous Fund No. 38.

According to the Museum’s Executive Director Gina Maria Alimberti, “We are excited to be able to provide this new service which is one of the many improvements and activities at the Museum that we have been undertaking to better serve our current visitors and to attract many more new ones.

About Connecticut Trolley Museum

The Connecticut Electric Railway Association, Inc. is the owner and operator of the Connecticut Trolley Museum. Founded in October 1940, it is the nation’s oldest incorporated organization dedicated to the preservation of the trolley era. The organization is led by a board of directors elected by the membership.

All major buildings and the museum’s center of operations are located on a 17-acre facility adjacent to State Route 140 in East Windsor. The right of way is a 3.2-mile portion of the Rockville branch of the Hartford & Springfield Street Railway Company.

The Connecticut Trolley Museum has over seventy pieces of rail equipment dating back to 1869. During your visit, you can see historic passenger and freight trolley cars, interurban cars, elevated railway cars, passenger and freight railroad cars, service cars, locomotives, and a variety of other equipment from railways around Connecticut. You will also find examples from Brooklyn, Boston, New Orleans, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Springfield, Lynchburg, Montreal, and even Rio De Janeiro, Brazil.

For more about CTM please visit https://www.ct-trolley.org/

Or Call 860-627-6540 or email, [email protected]

Summer Concert Series At The Res- Downtown 6 @ East Windsor Park
Jun 29 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Jun
30
Fri
Mystic Dead! @ Broad Brook Opera House
Jun 30 @ 8:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Mystic Dead!

Friday, June 30, 2023 – 9:00 PM EDT

In 2018 a group of musicians got together for a once a month Dead night at the Captain Daniel Packer inn in Mystic,CT. It turned out to be a seriously good time that translated to more shows, more fun and Mystic Dead was born.

Deep dives into all things Grateful Dead coupled by the freedom to remain true to their own creative individuality has been and will always be the mantra of all 6 members of Mystic Dead.

Doors 8:00pm

Show 9:00pm

Tix $20 advance/$25 Day of

Jul
6
Thu
Summer Concert Series At The Res – Sideways @ East Windsor Park
Jul 6 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Jul
8
Sat
Enroll in a Day Event at ACC @ Asnuntuck Community College
Jul 8 @ 9:00 am – 1:00 pm

Asnuntuck Community College ENROLL IN A DAY: Get ready for the fall semester with our “Enroll In A Day” event on Saturday, July 8 from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. Attendees can meet with an advisor, finalize their schedules, and register for classes!

For more info please visit http://asnuntuck.edu

Dino Trolley_SOLD OUT @ CT Trolley Museum
Jul 8 @ 10:00 am – 4:30 pm

If your child is fascinated by Dinosaurs, then Dino-Trolley is the event for you. Dino-Trolley will be held on July 8th & 9th from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

All activities will be on-going throughout the day including:

  • Dino Hunt – Search for dinosaurs while on board a safari trolley. Large scale dinosaurs will be hidden in the woods along the railway; can you spot them as the trolley goes by?
  • Fossil Dig Station – Dig and explore fossils while playing a paleontologist.
  • I-Spy Scavenger Hunt – Search for dinosaurs throughout the Visitor Center to earn a prize.
  • Dinosaur Craft – Make and take home a dinosaur trolley craft.
  • Dinosaur Photo Op – Take a picture with an 8-foot Tyrannosaurs Rex who will be walking around the property.
  • Dino Egg Hunt – Can you find dinosaurs eggs hidden around the campus? Find an egg to redeem for a prize.
  • Photo Station – Take a picture with your group to remember Dino-Trolley!

Inside the Visitor Center you will find static trolley cars and artifacts, a theater showing a dinosaur movie, and a gift shop to buy that ‘special’ souvenir. On the same grounds is the Connecticut Fire Museum complete with antique fire trucks and apparatus. All activities and Fire Truck Museum entrance is included with your admission price.

TICKETS
BECOME A MUSEUM MEMBER AND RECEIVE HALF OFF EVENT ADMISSION AND FREE ADMISSION ON NON-EVENT DAYS

CLICK HERE TO JOIN MEMBERSHIP

Jul
9
Sun
Dino Trolley_SOLD OUT @ CT Trolley Museum
Jul 9 @ 10:00 am – 4:30 pm

If your child is fascinated by Dinosaurs, then Dino-Trolley is the event for you. Dino-Trolley will be held on July 8th & 9th from 10:00 AM to 6:00 PM.

All activities will be on-going throughout the day including:

  • Dino Hunt – Search for dinosaurs while on board a safari trolley. Large scale dinosaurs will be hidden in the woods along the railway; can you spot them as the trolley goes by?
  • Fossil Dig Station – Dig and explore fossils while playing a paleontologist.
  • I-Spy Scavenger Hunt – Search for dinosaurs throughout the Visitor Center to earn a prize.
  • Dinosaur Craft – Make and take home a dinosaur trolley craft.
  • Dinosaur Photo Op – Take a picture with an 8-foot Tyrannosaurs Rex who will be walking around the property.
  • Dino Egg Hunt – Can you find dinosaurs eggs hidden around the campus? Find an egg to redeem for a prize.
  • Photo Station – Take a picture with your group to remember Dino-Trolley!

Inside the Visitor Center you will find static trolley cars and artifacts, a theater showing a dinosaur movie, and a gift shop to buy that ‘special’ souvenir. On the same grounds is the Connecticut Fire Museum complete with antique fire trucks and apparatus. All activities and Fire Truck Museum entrance is included with your admission price.

TICKETS
BECOME A MUSEUM MEMBER AND RECEIVE HALF OFF EVENT ADMISSION AND FREE ADMISSION ON NON-EVENT DAYS

CLICK HERE TO JOIN MEMBERSHIP

Reverend Horton Heat with Special Guest The Delta Bombers @ Broad Brook Opera House
Jul 9 @ 7:00 pm – 11:00 pm

Reverend Horton Heat with Special Guest The Delta Bombers

Sunday, July 9, 2023 – 8:00 PM EDT

REVEREND HORTON HEAT

Loaded guns, space heaters, and big skies. Welcome to the lethal littered landscape of Jim Heath’s imagination. True to his high evangelical calling, Jim is a Revelator, both revealing & reinterpreting the country-blues-rock roots of American music. He’s a time-travelling space-cowboy on a endless interstellar musical tour, and we are all the richer & “psychobillier” for getting to tag along.

Seeing REVEREND HORTON HEAT live is a transformative experience. Flames come off the guitars. Heat singes your skin. There’s nothing like the primal tribal rock & roll transfiguration of a Reverend Horton Heat show. Jim be-

comes a slicked-back 1950?s rock & roll shaman channeling Screamin’ Jay Hawkins through Buddy Holly, while Jimbo incinerates the Stand-Up Bass. And then there are the “Heatettes”. Those foxy rockabilly chicks dressed in poodle-skirts

and cowboy boots slamming the night away. It’s like being magically transported into a Teen Exploitation picture from the 1950?s that’s currently taking place in the future.

Listening to the REVEREND HORTON HEAT is tantamount to injecting pure musical nitrous into the hot-rod engine of your heart. The Reverend’s commandants are simple.

And no band on this, or any other, planet rocks harder, drives faster, or lives truer than the Reverend Horton Heat. These “itinerant preachers” actually practice what they preach. They live their lives by the Gospel of Rock & Roll.

THE DELTA BOMBERS

Formed in 2008 by four teenagers looking for a good time and a release of their rockabilly sensibilities the Bombers’ have grown end over end since then in more ways than one. Their humble beginnings have now grown the Las Vegas outfit into world leading roots Rock n’ Rollers clandestine and ready for any stage at any time. Not shy ofa live show their performances, now legendary the world over, as is their prolific singer song-writer front man Chris Moinichen. The strike team behind his howling vocals is Andrew Himmler on Guitar, Gregorio Garcia on Stand-Up Bass & PJ Franco on drums. The Delta Bombers exist only to continue what they started: A worldwide Rock and Roll revolution.

Doors 7:00pm

Show 8:00pm

Jul
13
Thu
Summer Concert Series – 60’s Satisfaction @ East Windsor Park
Jul 13 @ 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Jul
15
Sat
1st Annual Summer House Party! Sponsored by New Belgium Brewing! @ Broad Brook Opera House
Jul 15 @ 2:00 pm – 8:00 pm

1st Annual Summer House Party!

Saturday, July 15, 2023 – 2:00 PM EDT
***JUST ANNOUNCED***
Our FIRST Summer House Party will take place SATURDAY JULY 15th!
The day will be packed with FIVE different musical acts!
This is an OUTDOOR event with the stage sponsored by Suffield Music!
Beer tent sponsored by New Belgium Brewing!
Outdoor BBQ with the one and only Chef Frank!
Tickets available NOW! All advance purchase will get a token for a FREE New Belgium FAT TIRE ALE or VooDoo Ranger JUICY HAZE!
*in the event of inclement weather, this event will be moved indoors*