I remember seeing a post a long time ago about some people meeting at a candy factory somewhere in MA. The name Hebert Candies rings a bell. If I remember correctly its not too far from the Yankee Candle Factory a real tourist trap.
There's also some breweries in the Western MA regeion that offer tours of the facility and tasting of their products. On in particular that comes to mind is Hyland Orchards in Sturbridge MA, an old apple orchard that now also brews beer. They offer hay rides, tours of the brewery, tasting of the beer, they also let people venture into the orchard to pick apples, but I'm afraid there won't be any good ones left on the trees.
If we're thinking about something to do in CT, we could make an outting day like for instance, depending on how early we want to start we could hike or drive up Tolcott mt. where they have a look-out tower and other fun things, then we could head to guido's for lunch and if we're up for a drive head to (I forget the name of the town its in) gillette castle.
If it were warmer out and the river wasn't iced up I'd also suggest heading to essex where we can take a ride on a real steam tran along the river then hop on a setem boat for a river cruise and then catch the train back.
Now that I've gotten my brother motivated we should be done putting his car back together soon and I'll have the garage again. Then I can clean it up so we can keep tradition and start planning the spring mod meet at JSmith's, but on a warmer day this time.
