Spencer-Pierce-Little Farm – Newbury, MA
Here’s another Historic New England property to check off our list. This farm has been continuously farmed since the mid-1600s, which is incredibly impressive by US standards. It’s also a brick home built in 1690, which is also incredibly impressive by US standards. Historic New England has done a really good job of showcasing the
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York, ME to Portsmouth, NH
Wiggly Bridge/Steedman Woods, York, MEYork Harbor, MESayward Wheeler House, York, ME“For Those Who Sailed Here to Find a New Life” – Four Tree Island, Portsmouth, NH
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Beacon Hill – Boston, MA
Our second Historic New England stop was Otis House, which sits right at the foot of Beacon Hill, in Boston. What I didn’t know about Beacon Hill was that it was once one of three mountains in this part of Boston. The other two were taken apart for fill, and Beacon Hill itself had about
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Peabody Essex Museum – Salem, MA
It being so hot, we ended the day in the air conditioning, and checked out the Peabody Essex Museum, which has a very eclectic collection ranging from local maritime art to the art of the Far East. (The roots of the museum are the East India Marine Company, founded by local ship captains.) It’s
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Beauport, the Sleeper-McCann House – Gloucester, MA
We joined Historic New England last year (our gateway being Hamilton House). We’ve worked our way through several Maine and New Hampshire properties, and decided to take advantage of a friend’s cookout in the Boston area to add a few Massachusetts properties to the list. The first was Beauport, which ended up being
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Fenway Park – Boston, MA
I was recently bemoaning the lack of photos on my blog – January is entirely books and knitting up until now. But, it is winter in New England. It’s not that I don’t go anywhere in the winter – it’s usually just things more like last weekend, where we went down to
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New Hampshire/Vermont Border – a.k.a. the Connecticut River
If you look at a map, Grafton Notch State Park is right next to the very top of New Hampshire, which is the skinniest part of that state. Since our friend and BF met when she was an exchange student at his high school in Vermont, and she hadn’t managed a trip to
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