“For Warren Kingsbury the NBIM was a labor of love,” the post read. “For him, the history of New Britain’s rich industrial past was something to be proud of and something to share. I immediately knew that he pined away at night yearning for the bustling city of 1918 rather than the drug-ridden shell of a city it had become. It was impossible not to get excited about this stuff — even though the large majority of the collection was, well, rather mundane.”

In the years since, Mr. Wood has broadened the topics that he covers beyond just museum visits. (To reflect that evolution, the website’s name is changing to CTMQ.org this month.) He might now write about hiking, or breweries, or some of Connecticut’s kookier personalities. But the challenge of living with Damian, whose birth occurred in the same year as the website’s, has been a consistent attraction for certain readers.

“People really started getting interested in the family story,” he said.

When Damian was 2, tests showed that he had Smith-Magenis Syndrome, a rare genetic condition that is caused by an abnormality in the 17th chromosome. Those who have the syndrome usually have mild to moderate intellectual disability, gross motor delays like crawling and walking later than most children, sleep disorders and hard-to-handle behavioral issues.

“He can be difficult and he can scare people,” Mr. Wood said. “And we’ve gotten to places and had to turn around two minutes later.”

That was not the case at the Ukrainian Museum, where Damian busied himself making music on a dulcimer in one of the galleries and looking at folk costumes and pysanky — elaborately decorated Ukrainian Easter eggs — in another.

“Damian was a well-behaved boy,” Lubow Wolynetz, the museum’s curator, said after the visit. “I had absolutely no indication of the syndrome he’s affected with.”