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Hello everybody! Let’s talk about one of the biggest tourist attractions in Connecticut today: Foxwoods Resort Casino! This is an integrated resort that is owned and operated by the Mashantucket Pequot Tribal Nation on their reservation in Ledyard, Connecticut. It covers an area of 9,000,000 square feet, has a total of six casinos with more than 250 gaming tables for blackjack, craps, roulette, and poker, more than 5,500 slot machines, several restaurants, two hotel towers with 2,228 hotel rooms, an arcade, and a retail complex with 85 stores.  I’m going to be honest with you all right now, I had no idea how I would address this blog post, as there are two parts of the casino that are easily worth talking about: the restaurants and the upcoming shows. In my mind, both are equally fascinating, but I also don’t know if I can address both of them in a single blog post, so here’s what I am going to do. I am going to start writing this with the intention of talking about both of them, b...

Hello everybody!  I have already written about two outdoor concert venues in the area, so let’s finish the trifecta off with the other major outdoor arena in the New York City Metropolitan Area: The PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel, New Jersey!  Much like the other two outdoor summer concert venues I have written about, they already have a stacked schedule of shows this summer. Unlike Jones Beach Theater and The Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater, this venue can hold 17,500 people, as it has 7,000 seats, but what makes it different is the fact that it has a grass area that can hold about 10,500 people. I am now going to go over the shows that they are going to have this summer. A few warnings before I get started. First, a lot of the shows that are part of their lineup are at the other two venues, so I will be talking about some artists for either the second or third time, in which case, I’m sorry, but I don’t care because it’s my blog and I choose what I write about. Second, the...

Hello everybody! Today I am going to travel far beyond the area in which we all live, and head all the way to Upstate New York to Syracuse for the largest annual event in the state: The New York State Fair!  This is a 13 day showcase of agriculture, entertainment, education, and technology, and it also has midway rides, concessionaires, exhibits, and concerts. It also begins in August and lasts for 13 days before ending on Labor Day.  I was actually originally planning to write about it as soon as they had announced all the headliners this year, but after going back to last year and seeing that they finished announcing concerts in July, and the fact that I currently can’t think of anything else to write about, I decided to write about it now, talk about its history, its various features, who will be performing this year, and if I want to, I will share who has performed there in the past as well.  It was inaugurated all the way back in 1841 in Syracuse by the New York Stat...

Hello everybody! Seeing how the weather is (sort of) getting better and warmer, I feel it’s only natural that I talk about things to look forward to this summer! One thing that is a big part of the summer is outdoor summer concerts. Now, I’m sure that many things come to mind when someone says “outdoor summer concerts,” but I’m sure that almost all of you reading thought of the same place as soon as I started talking about this: Jones Beach Theater in Wantagh, New York.  It is easily one of, if not the most famous outdoor amphitheater in the area, and it has so many different shows in one season. In fact, as I am currently writing this, they already have a very stacked lineup of shows from June to September, with even more shows to be announced.  In this blog post, I will be writing about all the shows that they have scheduled for this summer, in hopes that any or all of them sound intriguing to all of you reading. The first show they have on June 5 is some rock band called Tr...

Hello everyone! Let’s talk about some tourist attractions in Fairfield County in Connecticut today! As always, my point in writing about these places is that any or all of them are intriguing to all of you reading, enough that you will want to check them out. The first tourist attraction is The Arthur A Harris Linear Park in Brookfield, which is a multi-use trail along the Still River. The next tourist attraction is what used to be The Ballpark at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport, but has since been turned into a place that I have talked about several times already, The Hartford HealthCare Amphitheater. The next tourist attraction is the Bowman Observatory in Greenwich, which features a telescope. The next tourist attraction is the Bridgeport Islanders, which is the American Hockey League affiliate of the New York Islanders, and plays at the Total Mortgage Arena. The next tourist attraction is The Bronson Windmill, which is a historic windmill in Fairfield. The next tourist attraction is Broo...