Another Second Penny Inn  

" * Winner, Arrington's InnTraveler 2005 Book of Lists, ""Best Breakfast in New England"" (This honor places Another Second Penny Inn among the top 3% of B&B in North America.) Wireless internet access (DSL) is available to our guests at no charge. Join the Another Second Penny Inn mailing l ist Email: A little bit of information ... The Edward Denison House is a historic colonial farm. Your stay in our historic bed and breakfast inn provides a romantic escape for a weekend or a week and the perfect New England vacation. Our 1710 colonial New England home offers friendly, romantic and spacious accommodations for the B&B visitor. Only three miles from Mystic, historic Stonington Borough, Westerly, Mystic Aquarium, and Mystic Seaport our bed and breakfast inn is located on five acres of gardens, fields and forest. This historic farm provides excellent opportunities for quiet, romantic walks, secluded hideaways for reading, birding and bird watching and rousing games of badminton and croquet. When the nightlife beckons, gambling at Foxwoods Casino and Mohegan Sun and theater at the Garde Arts Center are 15 minutes away. Ocean and river water, the beach, hiking, biking, antiques and shopping await you. Business travelers?note: we accept the federal government per diem weekdays. Pets and children are welcome (see policies.) Whether for romantic getaways, family visits, vacation rental or business meetings experience fine country lodging at its best at Another Second Penny Inn. When we first opened Another Second Penny Inn, the most common question was ""What is there to do in the area?"" We usually listed the things that we enjoyed doing, which include d: Mystic Seaport, Road Church , Mystic Aquarium, Clyde's Cider Mill , Mashantucket Pequot Museum , Nautilus Submarine Museum, U.S. Coast Guard Academy , Denison Pequotsepos Nature Center , and the Denison Homestead Museum. Soon, however, we began to investigate the great number of things there are to do in the area, and present the following list. We have attempted to sort the list by category. Although there are a number of historic things to do in the area, we have chosen these as some of our favorites: Hempsted Houses , Dr. William Beaumont House, Huntington Homestead Museum , Jonathan Trumbull, Jr House , Leffingwell House Historic Museum , Nathan Hale Homestead , Nathan Hale Schoolhouse and Revolutionary War Office , Shaw-Perkins Mansion , Fort Griswold , and Mystic Seaport. Along with the ""sites"", we host three excellent museums devoted to the history of travel: Essex Steam Train , Connecticut Eastern Railroad Museum , and Mystic Seaport, The number of fine art galleries and art museums is amazing and includes The Mystic Art Association, Alexey von Schlippe Gallery, Alva Gallery, Cooley Gallery, Cutwater Gallery, Florence Griswold Museum , Hygienic Galleries , Lyman Allyn Art Museum , Lyme Academy College of Fine Arts , and the Lyme Art Association. Although the museums are all ""child friendly"", there are a couple which specialize in family experience. Some of these are: Blue Slope Country Museum, River Bend Mining, Gemstone Panning and Wildlife Exhibit, Children's Museum of Southeastern Connecticut , Science EpiCenter and DNA Learning Center, Duck Land & Water Tours , Nature's Art, and the Dinosaur Crossing. A number of folks come to the area simply to enjoy our tennis, golf, skating and professional sports teams: Pequot Golf Club, Elmridge Golf Course, Birch Plain Golf Course, Cedar Ridge Golf Course, Lake of Isles Golf Course, Norwich Golf Course, River Ridge Golf Course, Norwich Ice Rink, Mystic Cycle Center (Rentals), Eastern Ct Balloon Services, Simmons Aviation Services (Sightseeing), Connecticut State Parks, Ocean Beach Park, Connecticut Audubon Center, Connecticut College Arboretum, Mystic Indoor Tennis, Connecticut Sun WNBA, Norwich Navigators (AA Baseball), and the Waterford Speedbowl (NASCAR). One of the most common ""things to do"" in this area is shop, and there are a plethora of places to engage: The Book Barn , Olde Mistick Village (themed shopping centre), Crystal Mall, Holly Hock Farm Antiques, Putnam Antiques Marketplace, Quester Gallery, Tanger Outlets (Westbrook Factory Outlets), and the Clinton Crossing Premium Outlets When you are done with your day of sightseeing, the rich nightlife beckons: Eugene O'Neill Theatre Center , Mohegan Sun , Foxwoods Resort Casino, Eastern Connecticut Symphony, Garde Arts Center, Majestic Rose Dinner Theatre, Onstage at Connecticut College, Shakespeare by the Sea, Spirit of Broadway Theatre, Summer Music at Harkness Park, and even the U. S. Coast Guard Band. "