March 23, 2025 • 15 mins
We spoke with Connecticut Director of Tourism Rachel Lenda about places to visit in Connecticut.
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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Good morning, Thank you for listening to Community Access. My
guest today is Rachel Lendas. She's Director of Tourism for
the Connecticut Office of Statewide Marketing and Tourism.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good Morning, Good morning, Happy Monday.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah. So, I mean this is totally off topic, but
did you sing in your past or do you now?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
So? Okay? So storytime. Yes, I was in a award
winning cover band in the state of Connecticut. The band
is called Red Light. They still are wildly popular. I
was the lead blonde for four years and that I
sang rock and roll and it was some of the
funnest times in my life.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, yeah, ACDC, how would have Hell? That's like one
of my top five favorite songs is thing Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
So my daughter, I'm totally bragging. She is in mad House.
She was in Kick. You probably knew Kick all those years. Yes,
Oh my goodness, living her.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Best Life's like, oh well, I love that I've probably
seen her out performing and have just like, you know,
throwing my hands up and bowed to her and ah
in love.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
That's so nice.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I love that I learned a long time ago that
you know, it's a famous saying. I forget who said it,
but comparison is the thet of joy.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yes, I think if we just focus on, you know,
being empowered women who empower other women, you know, then
we're leaving a good mark for those who are younger
and rising up in the ranks of this world.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So yes, totally agree with you. You are the director
of Tourism for the Connecticut Office of Statewide Marketing and Tourism.
And I don't know if you know this, but literally
every day I go to ct visit dot com and
I and I tell all of the listeners to go there,
especially on the weekends. If I'm working Friday Sunday, I'm like, Hey,
(01:55):
this is going on, and this is going on. So basically,
we just wrapped up Black History Month in February. Can
you recommend some places in Connecticut where visitors can explore
Black history year round?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Absolutely? So. There are a lot of different sites and
historical places where you can visit places in Connecticut that
honor our Black history here in Connecticut, which is deep
and rooted and incredibly diverse that has had an incredible
impact not just on our state of Connecticut, but the
(02:28):
entire country and even beyond in the world. So if
you want to enjoy learning about the Black history here
in the state of Connecticut, I recommend a couple of
different trails and also a center. So the first two
are the New London Black Heritage Trail. This is a
city wide trail and it celebrates three centuries of Black strength, resilience,
(02:52):
and accomplishments through fifteen sites and they're nationally known people
and historic events. And we also have the Connecticut Freedom Trail,
which features over one hundred and sixty sites and seventy
different towns across the state that celebrate the resilience and
spirit of the African American history. And then we go
over into Hartford where we've got the Amistad Center for
(03:14):
Arts and Culture, and that's at the Wadsworth Athenian Museum
of Art, which is right in the center of Hartford,
and it celebrates the experiences, expressions, and history of people
of African descent and it features over seven thousand pieces
of art, artifacts and historical archives. So it's really incredible
(03:36):
collection of what you can experience year round. And those
are just three spaces here in Connecticut. There are three
ideas that you can always find articles and cet visit
and information on tractions and Connecticut that honor black history,
as well as black owned restaurants, boutiques, and other businesses
around the state to support.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So now we're in March and it's women's history. What
are some attractions in Connecticut that honor women's history.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I love that question, and I recently learned that it
was congressional delegation that urged presidents back in the seventies
and eighties to declare March. It started out as a
week and then it turned into a month of celebrating Connecticut.
Excuse me, well, yes, Connecticut women, but women's history in
(04:26):
the entire country. So here in Connecticut, we've got a
strong story of female trailblazers and they have influence not
just Connecticut history, but American history. And the famous Connecticut
features the Connecticut Women's Heritage Trail, and it's fifteen historic
landmarks and attractions that celebrate strong women from our state.
(04:50):
And that includes our state heroine, Prudence Crandell. Prudence Crandall
founded the nation's first boarding school for young African American women.
And the museum is open for tours on Sundays, and
they do a fantastic job of highlighting the stories of
incredible African American teenagers and young women who have the
(05:10):
courage to demand a good education and to attend school
despite the risks. And this is in a time when
you know, the world as we know it here in
the United States was just forming, and you know, a
lot of courage and a lot of bravery, and those
remarkable young women went on to tackle some of the
hardest issues here in the country. So right, that's right
(05:34):
up in Canterbury. And then when we moved to Old Saybrook,
we're talking about the Catherine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center. And
Catherine Hepburn, you know, we know her as the iconic actress,
but she was so much more than that. She came
from a family of activists and her mother was an
active suffragist and proponent of women's rights. So hallelujah to
(05:58):
her mom that me work being able to be today.
So that's museum. It's opened a new section dedicated to
Hepburn's legacy. You can learn all about her life and
now it's known as the Kate and it also presents
a full repertoire of diverse culture and performing arts prevaring
(06:19):
for all ages. We've got two more places that I'd
love to highlight for the Connecticut Women's Heritage Trail, and
that is the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. And you know
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her famous work was It's Uncle Tom's Cabin,
and she was the famous author of that book. But yeah,
she was a famous abolitionist and she was a proponent
(06:41):
of social justice. And we think at the center does
a great job at showcasing the story of her life
and include encouraging social justice and literary activism, which is
incredibly important. And the final place on the historic Landmark
and Attractions for the Women's Heritage Trail that it like
(07:02):
to feature today is the Windham Textile and History Museum,
which is a little different than what the other centers are,
but it tells the story of several important women in
Connecticut who struggled for labor rights. You know, as in
the Industrial Revolution, you know, manufacturing and automation went into
(07:24):
full swing and things changed. And this includes Betty Tiati
and she rose to become the first female leader of
the AFL CIO in Connecticut and the state's first female
labor commissioner, which is super super cool. And then of
course she is not on the Heritage Trail. But I
have to give a shout out to Miss La Grosso,
(07:47):
who is the nation's first female governor. So women of power.
We're a powerful state, powerful women.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
There's just so many hinted gems that people don't even
know about myself included, like I'm surprised. I'm like, my goodness,
I could go every single week onto something new with
all of these attractions. Yes, you can now that spring
is here. What can we look forward to?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh, my goodness. You know, I was just getting out
of my car to take this interview and it's fifty
five degrees outside and it feels absolutely amazing. So you
know what's really cool is maple sugaring. So we're in
maple sugaring season. You know, people think of all those
other New England states. Those I will not mention because
(08:32):
we're in Connecticut here. But I'm not going to talk
about the v State or the NH State, or then state,
both of them. But we're going to talk about There
are over thirty maple sugar houses here in Connecticut, and
this time of the year many maple sugar producers around
the state. They host a lot of special programs and
(08:54):
events where you can go in and sample the maple feerrum.
You can have fun activities, and they're really happening almost
every weekend, it seems like from now for the next
month or so, so great opportunity to see some maple sugaring,
also hiking. It's time to get back outside and see
for yourself by Connecticut was recently ranked the number one
(09:17):
state for hiking in the country. Wild right, let me
tell you we're living rent free in New Hampshire and
Vermont's mind there I can gap note we are, and
that's because the minute that you leave your front door,
within fifteen minutes of any town in the state, you're
in front of a hiking trail and open space state park,
(09:40):
which is a great opportunity for people of all ages
and skills level. And then, last, but not least, we're
going into a fresh spring blooms, So we're talking tulips,
we're talking daffodils and cherry blossoms and all of the
beautiful spring flowers that are coming to life. And you
(10:00):
can go to ct visit dot com. We have a
spring blossom finder that lists places and events throughout the
states where you can find seasonal flowers. You know, we've
got dancing daffodils. We've come weing with tulips and all
sorts of really cool places throughout the state that where
you can even pick your own flowers and bring back
a beautiful bouquet. It's been time for Easter and time
(10:23):
for Mother's Day coming up.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Where I live out in Lichfield, there's a place called
Laura Ledge and this woman, I guess you know all
about this. Over the years, she would just every single
year plant the bulbs for daffodils. And my children are
grown now twenty and twenty, but ever since they were little,
we would go there, take a million pictures of them
in the daffodils. Artists are outside painting. It's just this again,
(10:48):
another little hidden gem in Litchfield, if anyone wants to
go see it. So what's new? What's going to be
happening soon? Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Very exciting. So on National Pie Day? You know three
what is it? March fourteenth? Right? Three point one? Yeah, yeah,
that's it's going on forever. I don't even know if
it's the right sequence of words or letters numbers. So
a National Pie Day, we are launching the voting for
(11:19):
Connecticut's pizza trail. So, which really cool is first of all,
Connecticut is the pizza capital of the United States. We
all know that level and we're living rent free again
in New York and New Jersey's mine this time. But
we've had a really fun time exploring why we're the
(11:40):
pizza capital of the United States. And so you can
go online to ct visit to cast your vote and
that will start on Pie Day and by May first,
we're going to tally those votes, we're going to take
the top top one hundred, we'll make the final trail,
and we're going to launch that trailing National Pizza Month,
(12:01):
which is in October. So that's really really exciting. There
are also a lot of exciting the hotel openings happening
in Connecticut, including three new hotels in your neck of
the woods. Yes I said that in Litchfield. So we've
got the lock Fox in it was originally in seventeen
forties tavern, but it's been reimagined as they refined boutique
(12:25):
in its absolutely beautiful. And then the Abner Hotel. Oh,
I've heard such great things about all three of these places.
And the Abner Hotel is located in Litchfield's historic County
Courthouse building and the boutique hotel has twenty guests rooms.
The Courtroom restaurant is set in the former courtroom, so
(12:46):
what a really cool space to dine in. And that
has a lovely rooftop bar, which is going to be
fabulous come spring, summer, and fall. And then we've got
the Belding House and that's the three acres stay that
has been transformed into a house hotel and it's located
in walking distance to this door of Lichfield Green, which
(13:09):
is so close to the town's shops, restaurants and attractions,
so it's absolutely beautiful. And now we're going to south
eastern Connecticut and the DeLamar Hotels are opening up their
luxury boutique hotel in Mystic and that's right by the
Mystic Seaports from the same property, and the hotel just
(13:30):
opened and they're now accepting bookings. And then you know,
I know that your kids are twenty eight and twenty,
but I have a three year old. Oh, so this
last place, I am pumped.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Well, we went all the time, We went to Fitchburg
and we went down to Pennsylvania for this. But go ahead,
let the listeners know.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Oh my gosh. That is great Wolf Lodge and it's
going to be at Boxerser's Work Casino that's opening in May.
It's a year round, it's an indoor water park at
the resort, glowed with all kinds of entertainment, and it
will be opening at the award winning Foxers Resort and
Casino in nash Tucket. And that should be opening up
(14:11):
that we're hoping by this May, and if even't heard,
there's talk that it may open slightly sooner. But I'll
be the first to don my big, my one piece
swimsuit right and get in there. We don't need anything.
Riding up with children in the crowd, it's so funny. Yeah,
slap slap a bathing suit on my kid and throw
(14:33):
her down a water slide and have so much fun. Excited.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
It is so much fun. I can see my kids.
They give them ears when they go in, like a
headband with ears, and I can see them howling. They're like, oh,
and it was so fantastic. And it's right here in Connecticut.
I'm speaking with Rachel Linda, director of Tourism for the
Connecticut Office of Statewide Marketing and Tourism. Again. That website
(15:00):
ctvisit dot com, check it every single day, every single week,
and you can do all of these amazing things and more.
The events change every single weekend, so don't miss out.
Thank you so much for being here today, Rachel Oh,
thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Allison, and I hope you have a beautiful spring season
and I can't wait to talk to you again
Good morning, Thank you for listening to Community Access. My
guest today is Rachel Lendas. She's Director of Tourism for
the Connecticut Office of Statewide Marketing and Tourism.
Speaker 2 (00:10):
Good Morning, Good morning, Happy Monday.
Speaker 1 (00:14):
Yeah. So, I mean this is totally off topic, but
did you sing in your past or do you now?
Speaker 2 (00:21):
So? Okay? So storytime. Yes, I was in a award
winning cover band in the state of Connecticut. The band
is called Red Light. They still are wildly popular. I
was the lead blonde for four years and that I
sang rock and roll and it was some of the
funnest times in my life.
Speaker 1 (00:41):
I love that.
Speaker 2 (00:42):
Yeah, yeah, ACDC, how would have Hell? That's like one
of my top five favorite songs is thing Wow.
Speaker 1 (00:48):
So my daughter, I'm totally bragging. She is in mad House.
She was in Kick. You probably knew Kick all those years. Yes,
Oh my goodness, living her.
Speaker 2 (00:58):
Best Life's like, oh well, I love that I've probably
seen her out performing and have just like, you know,
throwing my hands up and bowed to her and ah
in love.
Speaker 1 (01:09):
That's so nice.
Speaker 2 (01:09):
I love that I learned a long time ago that
you know, it's a famous saying. I forget who said it,
but comparison is the thet of joy.
Speaker 1 (01:19):
Yes, it is.
Speaker 2 (01:21):
Yes, I think if we just focus on, you know,
being empowered women who empower other women, you know, then
we're leaving a good mark for those who are younger
and rising up in the ranks of this world.
Speaker 1 (01:34):
So yes, totally agree with you. You are the director
of Tourism for the Connecticut Office of Statewide Marketing and Tourism.
And I don't know if you know this, but literally
every day I go to ct visit dot com and
I and I tell all of the listeners to go there,
especially on the weekends. If I'm working Friday Sunday, I'm like, Hey,
(01:55):
this is going on, and this is going on. So basically,
we just wrapped up Black History Month in February. Can
you recommend some places in Connecticut where visitors can explore
Black history year round?
Speaker 2 (02:07):
Absolutely? So. There are a lot of different sites and
historical places where you can visit places in Connecticut that
honor our Black history here in Connecticut, which is deep
and rooted and incredibly diverse that has had an incredible
impact not just on our state of Connecticut, but the
(02:28):
entire country and even beyond in the world. So if
you want to enjoy learning about the Black history here
in the state of Connecticut, I recommend a couple of
different trails and also a center. So the first two
are the New London Black Heritage Trail. This is a
city wide trail and it celebrates three centuries of Black strength, resilience,
(02:52):
and accomplishments through fifteen sites and they're nationally known people
and historic events. And we also have the Connecticut Freedom Trail,
which features over one hundred and sixty sites and seventy
different towns across the state that celebrate the resilience and
spirit of the African American history. And then we go
over into Hartford where we've got the Amistad Center for
(03:14):
Arts and Culture, and that's at the Wadsworth Athenian Museum
of Art, which is right in the center of Hartford,
and it celebrates the experiences, expressions, and history of people
of African descent and it features over seven thousand pieces
of art, artifacts and historical archives. So it's really incredible
(03:36):
collection of what you can experience year round. And those
are just three spaces here in Connecticut. There are three
ideas that you can always find articles and cet visit
and information on tractions and Connecticut that honor black history,
as well as black owned restaurants, boutiques, and other businesses
around the state to support.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
So now we're in March and it's women's history. What
are some attractions in Connecticut that honor women's history.
Speaker 2 (04:04):
I love that question, and I recently learned that it
was congressional delegation that urged presidents back in the seventies
and eighties to declare March. It started out as a
week and then it turned into a month of celebrating Connecticut.
Excuse me, well, yes, Connecticut women, but women's history in
(04:26):
the entire country. So here in Connecticut, we've got a
strong story of female trailblazers and they have influence not
just Connecticut history, but American history. And the famous Connecticut
features the Connecticut Women's Heritage Trail, and it's fifteen historic
landmarks and attractions that celebrate strong women from our state.
(04:50):
And that includes our state heroine, Prudence Crandell. Prudence Crandall
founded the nation's first boarding school for young African American women.
And the museum is open for tours on Sundays, and
they do a fantastic job of highlighting the stories of
incredible African American teenagers and young women who have the
(05:10):
courage to demand a good education and to attend school
despite the risks. And this is in a time when
you know, the world as we know it here in
the United States was just forming, and you know, a
lot of courage and a lot of bravery, and those
remarkable young women went on to tackle some of the
hardest issues here in the country. So right, that's right
(05:34):
up in Canterbury. And then when we moved to Old Saybrook,
we're talking about the Catherine Hepburn Cultural Arts Center. And
Catherine Hepburn, you know, we know her as the iconic actress,
but she was so much more than that. She came
from a family of activists and her mother was an
active suffragist and proponent of women's rights. So hallelujah to
(05:58):
her mom that me work being able to be today.
So that's museum. It's opened a new section dedicated to
Hepburn's legacy. You can learn all about her life and
now it's known as the Kate and it also presents
a full repertoire of diverse culture and performing arts prevaring
(06:19):
for all ages. We've got two more places that I'd
love to highlight for the Connecticut Women's Heritage Trail, and
that is the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. And you know
Harriet Beecher Stowe. Her famous work was It's Uncle Tom's Cabin,
and she was the famous author of that book. But yeah,
she was a famous abolitionist and she was a proponent
(06:41):
of social justice. And we think at the center does
a great job at showcasing the story of her life
and include encouraging social justice and literary activism, which is
incredibly important. And the final place on the historic Landmark
and Attractions for the Women's Heritage Trail that it like
(07:02):
to feature today is the Windham Textile and History Museum,
which is a little different than what the other centers are,
but it tells the story of several important women in
Connecticut who struggled for labor rights. You know, as in
the Industrial Revolution, you know, manufacturing and automation went into
(07:24):
full swing and things changed. And this includes Betty Tiati
and she rose to become the first female leader of
the AFL CIO in Connecticut and the state's first female
labor commissioner, which is super super cool. And then of
course she is not on the Heritage Trail. But I
have to give a shout out to Miss La Grosso,
(07:47):
who is the nation's first female governor. So women of power.
We're a powerful state, powerful women.
Speaker 1 (07:54):
There's just so many hinted gems that people don't even
know about myself included, like I'm surprised. I'm like, my goodness,
I could go every single week onto something new with
all of these attractions. Yes, you can now that spring
is here. What can we look forward to?
Speaker 2 (08:09):
Oh, my goodness. You know, I was just getting out
of my car to take this interview and it's fifty
five degrees outside and it feels absolutely amazing. So you
know what's really cool is maple sugaring. So we're in
maple sugaring season. You know, people think of all those
other New England states. Those I will not mention because
(08:32):
we're in Connecticut here. But I'm not going to talk
about the v State or the NH State, or then state,
both of them. But we're going to talk about There
are over thirty maple sugar houses here in Connecticut, and
this time of the year many maple sugar producers around
the state. They host a lot of special programs and
(08:54):
events where you can go in and sample the maple feerrum.
You can have fun activities, and they're really happening almost
every weekend, it seems like from now for the next
month or so, so great opportunity to see some maple sugaring,
also hiking. It's time to get back outside and see
for yourself by Connecticut was recently ranked the number one
(09:17):
state for hiking in the country. Wild right, let me
tell you we're living rent free in New Hampshire and
Vermont's mind there I can gap note we are, and
that's because the minute that you leave your front door,
within fifteen minutes of any town in the state, you're
in front of a hiking trail and open space state park,
(09:40):
which is a great opportunity for people of all ages
and skills level. And then, last, but not least, we're
going into a fresh spring blooms, So we're talking tulips,
we're talking daffodils and cherry blossoms and all of the
beautiful spring flowers that are coming to life. And you
(10:00):
can go to ct visit dot com. We have a
spring blossom finder that lists places and events throughout the
states where you can find seasonal flowers. You know, we've
got dancing daffodils. We've come weing with tulips and all
sorts of really cool places throughout the state that where
you can even pick your own flowers and bring back
a beautiful bouquet. It's been time for Easter and time
(10:23):
for Mother's Day coming up.
Speaker 1 (10:25):
Where I live out in Lichfield, there's a place called
Laura Ledge and this woman, I guess you know all
about this. Over the years, she would just every single
year plant the bulbs for daffodils. And my children are
grown now twenty and twenty, but ever since they were little,
we would go there, take a million pictures of them
in the daffodils. Artists are outside painting. It's just this again,
(10:48):
another little hidden gem in Litchfield, if anyone wants to
go see it. So what's new? What's going to be
happening soon? Oh?
Speaker 2 (10:58):
Very exciting. So on National Pie Day? You know three
what is it? March fourteenth? Right? Three point one? Yeah, yeah,
that's it's going on forever. I don't even know if
it's the right sequence of words or letters numbers. So
a National Pie Day, we are launching the voting for
(11:19):
Connecticut's pizza trail. So, which really cool is first of all,
Connecticut is the pizza capital of the United States. We
all know that level and we're living rent free again
in New York and New Jersey's mine this time. But
we've had a really fun time exploring why we're the
(11:40):
pizza capital of the United States. And so you can
go online to ct visit to cast your vote and
that will start on Pie Day and by May first,
we're going to tally those votes, we're going to take
the top top one hundred, we'll make the final trail,
and we're going to launch that trailing National Pizza Month,
(12:01):
which is in October. So that's really really exciting. There
are also a lot of exciting the hotel openings happening
in Connecticut, including three new hotels in your neck of
the woods. Yes I said that in Litchfield. So we've
got the lock Fox in it was originally in seventeen
forties tavern, but it's been reimagined as they refined boutique
(12:25):
in its absolutely beautiful. And then the Abner Hotel. Oh,
I've heard such great things about all three of these places.
And the Abner Hotel is located in Litchfield's historic County
Courthouse building and the boutique hotel has twenty guests rooms.
The Courtroom restaurant is set in the former courtroom, so
(12:46):
what a really cool space to dine in. And that
has a lovely rooftop bar, which is going to be
fabulous come spring, summer, and fall. And then we've got
the Belding House and that's the three acres stay that
has been transformed into a house hotel and it's located
in walking distance to this door of Lichfield Green, which
(13:09):
is so close to the town's shops, restaurants and attractions,
so it's absolutely beautiful. And now we're going to south
eastern Connecticut and the DeLamar Hotels are opening up their
luxury boutique hotel in Mystic and that's right by the
Mystic Seaports from the same property, and the hotel just
(13:30):
opened and they're now accepting bookings. And then you know,
I know that your kids are twenty eight and twenty,
but I have a three year old. Oh, so this
last place, I am pumped.
Speaker 1 (13:43):
Well, we went all the time, We went to Fitchburg
and we went down to Pennsylvania for this. But go ahead,
let the listeners know.
Speaker 2 (13:50):
Oh my gosh. That is great Wolf Lodge and it's
going to be at Boxerser's Work Casino that's opening in May.
It's a year round, it's an indoor water park at
the resort, glowed with all kinds of entertainment, and it
will be opening at the award winning Foxers Resort and
Casino in nash Tucket. And that should be opening up
(14:11):
that we're hoping by this May, and if even't heard,
there's talk that it may open slightly sooner. But I'll
be the first to don my big, my one piece
swimsuit right and get in there. We don't need anything.
Riding up with children in the crowd, it's so funny. Yeah,
slap slap a bathing suit on my kid and throw
(14:33):
her down a water slide and have so much fun. Excited.
Speaker 1 (14:37):
It is so much fun. I can see my kids.
They give them ears when they go in, like a
headband with ears, and I can see them howling. They're like, oh,
and it was so fantastic. And it's right here in Connecticut.
I'm speaking with Rachel Linda, director of Tourism for the
Connecticut Office of Statewide Marketing and Tourism. Again. That website
(15:00):
ctvisit dot com, check it every single day, every single week,
and you can do all of these amazing things and more.
The events change every single weekend, so don't miss out.
Thank you so much for being here today, Rachel Oh,
thank you so much.
Speaker 2 (15:15):
Allison, and I hope you have a beautiful spring season
and I can't wait to talk to you again
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