They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky, they’re altogether ooky. Those opening lyrics from the theme song to the popular “Addams Family” 1964 television sitcom, could very well apply to what you will find inside Riverside Reptiles Education Center in Enfield. “A lot of people are scared of reptiles and some amphibians and just don’t like them.
FROM THE EDITOR LAUREN LEBEL
Here comes the sun…
I will be repeating those words all summer long in hopes of manifesting good weather. And let’s be honest, we need it because there’s nothing like a warm, sunny summer in New England.
W hile I have much to look forward to this month, I am most excited for my trip to Cape Cod.
The last week of July, me and my family will be headed to Chatham, where we will be staying for one week.
From the cute shops downtown to the delicious eateries, the town has so much to offer.
However, the week has much more meaning than that.
We first went to the Cape as a family two years ago to celebrate my mom’s 60th birthday. After having such an incredible time, we decided to turn it into an annual trip. But little did we know, that would be our last trip with our mom.
My mom passed away in February 2024, after a two-and-a-half-year battle with cancer.
To honor her — and do what she would have wanted us to do — we have continued to go on the yearly Cape trip to celebrate her birthday and all that she was.
O f course, it’s bittersweet. But it’s important to hold on to the memories we have with our mom and continue to create new ones as we go. Because no matter what, I know she is still with us.
In addition to my upcoming trip, I am looking forward to all the things summer has to offer — laying by my pool, going on bike rides, eating (a lot) of lobster and obviously, ice cream.
In this month’s edition of Go Local, we highlight a local ice cream shop that has been around since 1990. The Summer House, located in Southwick, is a family-owned roadside eatery that serves up burgers, hot dogs, fries and ice cream — a classic summer lineup.
In East Longmeadow, The Living Room is filled with a collection of antiques and gifts for anyone, for any occasion. The shop owner, Chrissy Fazio, also utilizes her shop to help promote other women-owned businesses, both locally and globally based.
L ast, but certainly not least, is the Riverside Reptiles Education Center in Enfield. The center houses a diverse collection of 100 species of indigenous and exotic amphibians and reptiles, invertebrates and freshwater fish from around the world.
So, if you are looking for a new place to eat at, a new store to shop, or a new attraction to fill your summer days, I suggest checking out one of the three businesses featured in this month’s magazine.
A s always, thanks for reading, L auren LeBel, editor
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Living Room the
Sometimes, a shop isn’t something you describe. I t’s something you experience.
That’s the best way to explain a visit to The Living Room, located at 95 Shaker Rd. in East Longmeadow.
The eclectic browsing experience blends a carefully curated collection of antiques with thoughtfully selected gift ideas in spaces that mimic areas of a house — including a living room, a kitchen space, a garden room — and more.
The shop and its carefully arranged contents are the ultimate labor of love for business owner Chrissy Fazio, a self-avowed thrifter, recycler and advocate for the growing sustainability movement to “reuse, repurpose and reclaim.”
And initially, it wasn’t supposed to be a shop at all. Fazio said she was actually looking for storage space for her thrifting collections when she first spotted the location for rent on Shaker Road.
“ When I came in here, I said, ‘It looks like a house,’”
Fazio recalled, adding it wasn’t long before she began visualizing how the space could be utilized to display different pieces from her collections … and maybe more.
The idea for what became The Living Room, Fazio said, sprang from another shop’s demise. When the well-known gift shop, Giftology, in Longmeadow, was closing, Fazio said she asked members of her book club where they would be going to shop for gifts. Most, she said, answered they would be traveling up to Northampton.
W ith the Shaker Road space tailor-made for artful displays, Fazio saw an opportunity to fill that void.
“ We run the gamut of every gift idea you can think of — from magnets for $5 to socks for $15, kitchen towels … whoever you are buying for, you can find something … we have gifts for the older generation, for young people, for everyone,” Fazio said.
“ What people like is that [the displays] continually change,” Fazio added. “It might be antique dishes, a cute side table that I had [an artist] paint, we have jewelry, we have art.”
They also appreciate that almost everything in the store is for sale — down to the comfy couches arranged in a conversation pit to the old-fashioned stand-alone kitchen counter and cabinet spaces that display her kitchen items to the side tables and chairs that display lamps, jewelry, quilts and such.
“ When I go into an antique store, I always want what’s not for sale, here most everything is,” Fazio explained, adding that she tries to display her wares in a way that will spark decorating ideas for clients.
“People always say ‘I love that, but I don’t know how I would use it in my house,’” Fazio shared, adding that she herself is “constantly thrifting, constantly estate shopping … there are so many ways to reuse these things” and she tries to illustrate this belief in her displays.
To create a relaxed and welcoming atmosphere, Fazio said shoppers who stop by The Living Room are offered complimentary coffee or cocoa — and all the time they want to browse and shop.
“ Sometimes I’ll have three or four ladies in here just chatting … I love it,” Fazio said.
Though her heart will always be with the repurposing and antique trade — “I got my start going to Brimfield [antique marts] — it breaks my heart that so much is being thrown away today” — Fazio said she is also utilizing The Living Room to help promote other womenowned businesses, both locally and globally based.
“I buy from local women,” Fazio said of the way she sources many of the gift items for her shop. “My candles are from a person in Longmeadow, I have a lady who crochets for me, I have a lady who paints for me, and the soaps and lotions are from women in Wilbraham.”
S he added that her candle-making contact “comes up with new scents” for her clean-burning, soy-based candles each season. The woman who crochets for her often makes cute seasonal items — pumpkins, hearts, holiday trees — and other items Fazio sees and suggests to her.
Fazio also partnered with a local woman who makes the jewelry she sells in her shop, and she displays the work of a woman who “takes vintage jewelry and makes beautiful bookmarks” with the pieces.
W ithin her kitchen items displays are a collection of dish towels and heart-shaped gift card holders handmade from old saris — the colorful cloth garment that is artfully draped around the bodies of women in South Asia. “These products help women in third-world countries support themselves,” she said. She also works with another global company where all the profits from the sale of their products fight human trafficking.
“I have customers who come in every week because they want to know what we have that’s new,” Fazio shared.
To help people discover all that The Living Room has to offer, Fazio said she hosts “sip and shop” type open house events every three to six months. “It’s usually on a Thursday from 5 to 7 p.m. I do one for Christmas, for Valentine’s Day, and usually in the fall,” she said. When she hosts these events, Fazio said she always “partners with another women-owned business." For her Valentine’s Day Sip and Shop, she partnered with Juicy Cakes by Annie of East Longmeadow, showcasing her custom cupcakes during the event.
“I always try to partner with another women-owned business — we have to lift each other up,” Fazio said emphatically.
A s The Living Room prepares to celebrate three years in business this October, Fazio said she’s grateful for the support of her loyal customers and the “slow and steady” growth of business as the greater community discovers what her shop has to offer. She also said she’s grateful for the help her 80-year-old mother — and her aunts — provide her in keeping the shop running and welcoming customers.
“This tr uly is a family-run business,” Fazio said. THE LIVING ROOM, LOCATED AT 95 SHAKER RD. IN EAST LONGMEADOW, IS OPEN THURSDAY TO SATURDAY FROM 10 A.M. TO 5 P.M. AND SUNDAY FROM NOON TO 4 P.M.
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EDUCATION CENTER RIVERSIDE REPTILES
They’re creepy and they’re kooky, mysterious and spooky, they’re altogether ooky.
Those opening lyrics from the theme song to the popular “Addams Family” 1964 television sitcom, could very well apply to what you will find inside Riverside Reptiles Education Center in Enfield.
“A lot of people are scared of reptiles and some amphibians and just don’t like them. So, I took it upon myself to teach them why they are essential to our ecosystem, we are better with them, and how to coexist with this family of animals,” said Brian Kleinman.
K leinman is the owner of Riverside Reptiles Education Center, a zoo dedicated to reptiles and amphibians. RREC offers visitors an opportunity to get up close and personal with a diverse collection of 100 species of indigenous and exotic amphibians and reptiles, as well as invertebrates and freshwater fish from around the world. They are housed in naturalistic enclosures that allow for normal behavior.
The name Riverside Reptiles Education Center can be
misleading, but adding more to the title would render it too long, Kleinman noted.
“ We don’t just have reptiles and amphibians, which often get lumped together. We also have a bug cave, invertebrates like tarantulas and scorpions and centipedes and millipedes, insects and other invertebrates from around the world. There is also a small section of freshwater fish like an electric eel and electric catfish, as well as an alligator gar which is among the largest freshwater fishes in North America. And we also have the largest collection in the area of venomous snakes such as rattlers, cobras, Western green mamba, Eastern copperhead, boas, vipers and all the good stuff that kids like but often get a bad rap,” Kleinman said.
For those unsure of exactly what a reptile is, National Geographic defines them as “air breathing vertebrates covered in special skin made up of scales, bony plates or a combination of both.” They include crocodiles, snakes, lizards, turtles, and tortoises. Amphibians are defined as “small vertebrates that need water, or a moist environ-
ment, to survive.” The species in this group include frogs, toads, salamanders and newts. Invertebrates have no backbones and include spiders, worms, snails, lobsters, crabs and insects such as ants, beetles, flies, butterflies and more.
Like many youngsters, Kleinman was fascinated by animals.
“I grew up in Barkhamsted [Connecticut], which was a very rural area. We had a large forest behind the house and as a child of the ‘80s, I would leave the house in the morning and come back at night. I would hang out in the woods with friends where we would build forts, explore and catch animals. As my mom remembers and tells me, I would form nature clubs and hold educational programs for my good friends and neighbors out of our garage with all of the animals I had found like toads, frogs and garter snakes, then let them go afterwards,” Kleinman said.
A lifelong Connecticut resident now residing in East Granby with his wife and three boys, Kleinman took his fascination with animals to college, where he earned a bachelor’s degree in biology from Franklin Pierce University. He has decades of experience in the field studying invertebrates, amphibians, reptiles and birds across the United States. After working with all kinds of animals at The Children’s Museum in West Hartford, Kleinman decided to take the next step.
“I wanted to start my own business. We had a twobedroom apartment and I used one of those bedrooms to house a small collection of reptiles which grew in time. That was back in 2003 and I did about 30 to 40 outreach programs that first year which eventually grew to about 300 a year. We moved into a house and I expanded my collection and program options, but the house was becoming a zoo. My ultimate goal has always been to have my own facility, and I wanted my wife and kids to have the basement back to use. So, in 2019, I leased this spot in Enfield and started to build Riverside Reptiles Education Center. COVID delayed us a bit, but we managed to open our doors in October 2020,” Kleinman said.
K ids like big animals and ones that move around plenty, Kleinman noted.
“They love our large 8-foot alligator that I named Brenda after my mother. Kids also like our king cobra, who is very active, as well as our rhinoceros iguana and Asian water monitor lizard who belly flops a lot in the water,” he shared.
“The adults who come here are often amazed by the diversity of species on display, many of which they have never seen or heard of. And it’s a rare opportunity to see up close some of the most venomous snakes in the world,” he added.
For an even closer look at all the animals, RREC hosts free reptile encounters on weekends, including “Tortoise
Feeding” at 10:30 a.m., “Meet a Snake” at 11:30 a.m., “Alligator Meet & Greet” at 1 p.m. and “Meet a Lizard” at 2 p.m.
There are also what are called “Reptile Experiences,” which offer a more personal and intense encounter with the center’s reptiles, amphibians and invertebrates. Feed the Tortoises & Private Tour, priced at $100, includes visiting the African Spurred and Aldabra Tortoises and feeding them a snack right from your hand. Reticulated Python Encounter, also priced at $100, involves getting social and touching one of their 16-foot-long pythons named Kaa, Tarzan or Julie. Zookeeper Adventure, priced at $225, offers an opportunity to join staff for three hours in the morning to learn and see what they do among the animals. All prices include admission. And for a very special Private Animal Encounter, which costs $80, but does not include admission, up to five people will get to meet three animals of their choice in a private setting. The animals include Panda the Tegu, Lotus the Burmese Python, Spike the American Alligator, or one of their many other educational animals.
I f those hard-shelled, peek-a-boo turtles are your thing, the outdoor Turtle Terrace is a 4,000-square-foot habitat designed for a variety of turtle species from Connecticut and around the world. There is the Tortoise Pasture planted with native grasses and more that is home to their Aldabra and African Spurred Tortoises. The
5,000-gallon Turtle Pond is home to a variety of aquatic turtles such as red-eared and yellow-bellied turtles. There is also a Florida softshell turtle often seen strolling the bottom of the pond for food, or a shy wood turtle poking its head out of the water. The center’s 20-pound snapping turtle, who is very territorial, has his own 1,200-gallon pond. Others on display include Eastern box turtles, which are a protected species in Connecticut, Massachusetts and Rhode Island.
Furthering RREC’s emphasis on education, area schools from grammar to high school can sign up students for a field trip to the popular animal center. Call 860-207-9335, ext. 13, for more information or to schedule a field trip.
And RREC will even bring the animals to you as part of a variety of Roving Reptiles Outreach Programs –Reptiles & Amphibian, Snakes, Living Dragons, Jeepers Creepers, or a custom program that caters to your needs. They are perfect for libraries, schools, scout troop meetings, recreation and day care programs, and any other organizations that would like a fun and unique educational program geared from the smallest of kids to the oldest of adults. The cost for a visit is $350 plus mileage.
For more information, call 860-207-9335, ext. 13, or email education@riversideretitleseducationcenter.com
Animal loving kids can have a unique birthday experience at Riverside Reptile Education Center that provides
a private party room, personal reptile encounter, $5 gift store card for the birthday child, stickers, self-guided tour of the center and more. The cost is $325. To learn more or to book a party, email education@riversidereptileseducationcenter.com.
RREC also offers many special events throughout the year. To keep up-to-date on upcoming activities, you can subscribe to their newsletter on the Special Events page of their website.
O f special note: the animals on display are not captured from the wild by Kleinman and his education staff. Most come from other facilities such as zoos and education centers. Some are rescues, which are people’s pets that they no longer want, or that have been kept illegally and confiscated by the state. Others have been purchased from private breeders.
“ We get calls every day from people who want to give us their animals, and as a result, we have formed a nonprofit organization called Conservation and Education Reptile Rescue,” Kleinman said.
L ocated at the center, CERR, a 501c3 nonprofit, fulfills an increasing need for a place of shelter, appropriate food and care, and veterinarian services for confiscated and surrendered reptiles, amphibians, invertebrates, and large non-native aquarium fish. To learn more about CERR, visit cereptilerescue.com.
W hile there is a gift shop filled with stuffies, books, fossils, rocks and minerals, and various educational items, one thing they do not have is a snack bar for kids who might get hungry while visiting the attraction.
I f you plan on returning several times during the year, Riverside Reptiles Education Center offers several different membership options — from a Gila Monster single membership to a King Cobra couples membership to an Aldabra Tortoise senior couple membership to a Crocodile Family membership. Among the benefits, depending on the option chosen, are unlimited admission, 10% off gift store merchandise, 10% off in-house birthday parties, discounts on special events, and one free guest pass.
RIVERSIDE REPTILES EDUCATION CENTER IS LOCATED AT 132 SOUTH RD. IN ENFIELD. IT IS OPEN TUESDAY THROUGH SUNDAY FROM 10 A.M. TO 4 P.M. AND CLOSED ON JULY 4, THANKSGIVING AND CHRISTMAS DAY.
ADMISSION IS $16 FOR AGES 3-11, $18 FOR AGES 12 AND UP, $16 FOR SENIORS 65 AND UP, AS WELL AS VETERANS AND TEACHERS WITH THEIR CEA MEMBERSHIP CARD OR CURRENT SCHOOL ID. AGES 2 AND UNDER ARE FREE. GROUP RATES ARE AVAILABLE. FOR MORE INFORMATION, VISIT
OR CALL 860-207-9335.
Cabbage Slaw with Jalapeño and Citrus Dressing
FOR THE SLAW:
1/2 head of green cabbage
1 cup shredded carrots
1 jalapeño
1/2 of an English cucumber
1/2 of a red onion
FOR THE DRESSING:
1/4 cup olive oil
Juice of an orange
Juice of a lemon
Juice of half a lime
1 tbsp honey
1 tbsp whole grain mustard
Salt and pepper to taste
Start by thinly slicing your cabbage, you can buy pre-shredded if that’s easier, and add to a bowl. Follow suit with the rest of your veggies, make sure everything is thinly slicked, you can remove the seeds from the jalapeños to reduce the spice level. Add your veggies to a bowl while you prepare your dressing.
In a small bowl, add your citrus juice, honey and mustard. While whisking, slowly drizzle in your olive oil. Once combined, add dressing to your veggies and put in the fridge and let sit for at least an hour.
Such a great side dish for the summer and it gets better the longer it sits. Enjoy!
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SummerTheHouse
It’s been offering “a taste of summer” to generations of Southwick residents year-round since 1990. But the iconic summertime menu featuring hamburgers, hot dogs, fries and ice cream isn’t what’s given the roadside eatery on College Highway its seasonal moniker.
That, second-generation co-owner Steve Grimaldi shared, was bestowed on the restaurant by local town folk.
“It was a Friendly’s outpost,” Grimaldi said of the original structure, which housed a seasonal ice cream shop owned by the company’s founders, S. Prestley and Curtis Blake. “A lot of people called it the ‘Friendly’s Summer House’” when the Blakes owned it, Grimaldi explained. Over the years, he added, the “Summer House” part of the name simply stuck.
The Blake brothers decided to sell their seasonal shop in 1979. Grimaldi said, his parents, Anthony and Dorothy, saw an opportunity and purchased the business.
“My dad came along, saw the sign and put in a bid,” Grimaldi recalled. The family did some renovations to the tiny shop and opened it as a seasonal, May to September roadside eatery in 1980. More renovations followed, including the purchase of adjacent land for parking, the
addition of an indoor dining room and an expanded outdoor picnic area.
In 1990, Grimaldi and his brother Rick, took over the business from their parents, continuing the comfort food menu that helped give the restaurant its iconic name.
“People have called us a lunch spot, but I think we come to mind for the ice cream and the comfort foods people expect at this time of year,” Grimaldi shared during an interview as the weekday lunch crowd wound down. Despite being after 2 p.m., there was still a line of patrons waiting to order hamburgers, fries, grilled cheeses and the special of the day — a roast beef melt.
“ We try to keep prices reasonable,” Grimaldi continued. “And we’ve never gotten real fancy or added a lot [to our menu], but we do have those traditional comfort foods” all year round.
Those foods are “what you would find at any traditional roadside stand,” Grimaldi shared. “We have hamburgers, hot dogs, grilled cheese, french fries, clam strips, onion rings, egg salad and tuna salad sandwiches — our turkey club is very popular — and over the years we’ve added wraps [ sandwiches] and soups. For the soups, the base comes in and we make them here. And we have rotating specials including today’s roast beef melt — plus a
barbeque pork sandwich and a corned beef sandwich. On Fridays, we have a clam strip boat and fish and chips.”
“ We have people that we see in here three and four times a week and we know how bored we get with the food, so we try to mix things up,” Grimaldi said of the daily and weekly specials. In keeping with current dietary requests, Grimaldi added the shop now has available gluten-free hamburger and hot dog rolls and glutenfree bread for sandwiches.
But, as Grimaldi stated, ice cream is still the star at The Summer House.
“ We have soft serve, and we have hard scoop, a variety of sundaes, milkshakes and slushies,” Grimaldi said. Frozen yogurt and smoothies are also on the ice cream menu.
“Our most popular sundae is our hot fudge brownie,” Grimaldi continued, adding that the restaurant makes its own brownies, as the scent of freshly baked chocolate goodness floated through his tiny office. “There’s also the strawberry shortcake sundae and in the fall, we make an apple crisp sundae.” Again, he said, the apple crisp is homemade.
Grimaldi said he credits the restaurant’s commitment to its traditional menu of classic sandwiches and ice cream treats for its 45 years of success.
“ We have generations of customers — we have customers who came here when they were kids who are now bringing their kids and sometimes, their grandkids,” Grimaldi said.
One of his favorite things to do, Grimaldi shared, is to go out in the evening and watch his customers enjoying their food on the family-friendly picnic grounds around The Summer House.
“K ids are playing on the train … people are sitting at one of our picnic tables with their dog beside them … the whole family is there, and the kids are having fun,” Grimaldi said. The welcoming, family-friendly atmosphere of The Summer House is “why we’ve grown as we have and we’re successful,” Grimaldi added.
L ooking to the future, Grimaldi said he and his brother Rick have no plans to change things at The Summer House.
“ We would like to keep going the way we are because it has worked so well for 45 years,” Grimaldi said. “There may be some slight changes to the menu — some new items — but when you have a formula that works, you stick to it.”
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WHO SCULPTED THE FAMOUS STATUE OF DAVID?
[A] Auguste Rodin
[B] Michelangelo
[C] Donatello
[D] Leonardo da Vinci
SINCE 1968 (THE OPEN ERA) WHO HAS WON THE MOST WIMBLEDON MEN’S SINGLE TITLES (8)?
[A] Novak Djokovic
[B] Rafael Nadal
[C] Roger Federer
[D] Pete Sampras
WHICH JAMES BOND MOVIE WAS THE FIRST TO STAR DANIEL CRAIG?
[A] Quantum of Solace
[B] The World Is Not Enough
[C] Casino Royale
[D] Tomorrow Never Dies
GATWICK IS AN AIRPORT THAT SERVES WHAT EUROPEAN CITY?
[A] London
[B] Amsterdam
[C] Copenhagen
[D] Dublin
[D] 73 HOW MANY ELEVATORS DOES THE EMPIRE STATE BUILDING HAVE?
[A] 17
[B] 39
[C] 52
WHAT IS GENERALLY THE SPEED LIMIT ON A BRITISH MOTORWAY?
[A] 55 mph
[B] 60 mph
[C] 65 mph
[D] 70 mph
AND, SINCE 1968, WHO HAS WON THE MOST WIMBLEDON WOMEN’S SINGLE TITLES (9)?
[A] Serena Williams
[B] Martina Navratilova
[C] Steffi Graf
[D] Monica Seles
“SECOND STAR TO THE RIGHT AND STRAIGHT ON ‘TIL MORNING” ARE THE DIRECTIONS TO WHERE?
[A] Heaven
[B] Narnia
[C] Neverland
[D] Wonderland
ACROPHOBIA IS AN INTENSE FEAR OF WHAT?
[A] Heights
[B] Crowds
[C] Germs
[D] Clowns
SUMMER VET FEST
The Final Countdown
7 Ice Cream Shops for Cool Treats this July!
JB’S ICE CREAM FACTORY
624 N MAIN ST • EAST LONGMEADOW FACEBOOK.COM/JBSICECREAM/
Offering scoops, cakes, fresh fudge and more. JB’s Ice Cream Factory makes all their ice cream and fudge on site. Flavors change with the season and never disappoint. An area favorite for over 37 years.
MT. TOM’S
34 COTTAGE ST • EASTHAMPTON MTTOMS.COM
Mt. Tom’s Homemade Ice Cream offers over 50 flavors to choose from. Ice cream, frozen yogurt, sorbet, vegan gelato, and no sugar added ice cream! The also carry gourmet chocolates and penny candy and custom ice cream cakes and pies!
Northside Creamery specializes in tasty homemade cones, sundaes, floats, shakes and more. Unwind with their hard and soft-serve ice cream. Join their loyalty card program and get a free ice cream after five purchases. Don’t miss out on their best seller Salty Caramel!
WEST SIDE CREAMY CONES
751 UNION ST • WEST SPRINGFIELD WESTSIDECREAMYCONES.COM
West Side Creamy Cones has soft-serve flavors like vanilla, chocolate, strawberry and pistachio. They also sell 20 different “crazy” hard ice cream flavors. Besides traditional ice cream, the store also sells banana split sundaes, milkshakes, Italian ices and slushies.
COLLINS CREAMERY
9 POWDER HILL RD • ENFIELD TINYURL.COM/557HRRWX
Diverse Flavor Selection: With a rotating array of over two dozen flavors, Collins Creamery serves classics like chocolate, strawberry, and vanilla, along with distinctive options such as black raspberry and cotton candy.
JJ’S SOFT SERVE AND MORE
336 N. WESTFIELD ST • FEEDING HILLS JJSSOFTSERVE.COM
Cozy shop featuring a wide range of soft-serve and hard ice cream flavors, plus milkshakes. They have a new line of dairy free soft serve made from oat milk! They can mix any of their, over 90, soft serve flavor extracts to meet your needs.
TAIL WINDS ICE CREAM
69 OLD COUNTY RD • WINDSOR LOCKS FACEBOOK.COM/TAILWINDS69/
A hidden gem! Tail Winds Ice Cream has lots of hard and soft ice cream flavors, specialty sundaes, frozen yogurt, Italian ice, frozen drinks and more. Beautiful back yard to relax and enjoy your frozen treat. They also offer a cup of vanilla soft-serve with a dog biscuit for your pup!
