Sitting quietly along the Connecticut River Valley, this small Connecticut town of about 3,800 people looks like a movie set that someone forgot to take down after filming wrapped. A six-story Victorian building perched right on the Connecticut River, Goodspeed looks like it was designed specifically to make your jaw drop. The Connecticut River Valley offers hiking, kayaking, cycling, and plain old sitting-by-the-water activities in abundance. For those who prefer water, the Connecticut River is calm enough in this stretch for kayaking and canoeing. Chester, Connecticut has all of those things, and nobody there seems to be performing them for an audience.