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

Nook Farm, in Hartford, was home to Mark Twain, who wrote Tom Sawyer here, and also to Harriet Beecher Stowe

Goodspeed Opera House right on the Connecticut River in East Haddam is a Victorian gem mounting performances of American musical theater

	Connecticut is noted for its wines and vineyards...

Connecticut has over a dozen vineyards and wineries producing good to excellent vintages, and offering free wine tasting

Foxwoods and Mohegan Sun 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.

—by Tom Brosnahan

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