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<\/a><\/p>\nAs you can tell by the color of the trees, this stay was quite a while ago!<\/p>\n
I consulted my History Here app and found a few interesting places I wanted to check out.<\/p>\n
The first was the Harriet Beecher Stowe house. After all, I had just seen her grave in Andover, Massachusetts.<\/p>\n She lived in this house from 1873 until her death in 1896.<\/p>\n In my quest to find out when things are memorialized, this plaque was posted in 1935. They have been working on renovating the house, and it wasn’t open to tours.<\/p>\n I liked this sign in front of the house. “Preservation Means Jobs In Your Community.” We all benefit when we take care of of our cultural resources.<\/p>\n This house is part of the Harriet Beecher Stowe Center. Next door is the spectacular Katharine Seymour Cay House. It wasn’t open when I got there.<\/p>\n It is quite an elegant house, as opposed with the more ordinary, but still lovely, Stowe house next door.<\/p>\n The details are exquisite. Look at the colored inserts and the brick work.<\/p>\n The wrought iron supports for the gutters are works of art!<\/p>\n Not far away was Mark Twain’s house. He’s another person I’ve encountered before in my travels. I saw his grave in Elmira<\/a>, and the house he and his family stayed in when they would visit.<\/p>\n I got there after they closed, but I walked up to take a look.<\/p>\n The brickwork was amazing! I had seen photos of the house, but they must have been incorrectly exposed. I always thought the house was a plain brown.<\/p>\n I walked up to take more shots and then I got the dreaded notice that my storage was full. Now, that shouldn’t happen!<\/p>\n That evening there was a story telling event at the Connecticut Historical Society, Speak Up. It was $10, and we got to tour the galleries before the show, and they had snacks and drinks before the show. It was fun.<\/p>\n The next day, I needed to attend to my phone. Could it be planned obsolescence? I mean, iPhone 7 had just come out.<\/p>\n Luckily, there was an Apple store at Westfarms Mall. It was quite the shopping emporium! The folks at Williams-Sonoma were making chicken stock, and the aroma was driving me wild!<\/p>\n I checked in at the Apple store and got my time to come back. I roamed around the mall for a while, until I realized that it was Sunday, and they would be closing at 5:00. Even though they gave me a time at 4:45, I figured that there was no way that they would be able to get my job done that day. I decided to go get something to eat and come back the next day.<\/p>\n I headed back to the campground. This interesting double hump bridge leads across the Connecticut River from the Hartford side to the Portland side.<\/p>\n Really, this campground was pretty nice, if you give a lot of weight to the view. I love the steam rising from the water in the mornings.<\/p>\n I went back to the mall and got in to the Apple store with only a minimal wait. (Well, maybe an hour…) It took the Genius who helped me more than an hour to get my phone working again.<\/p>\n When I got gassed up and ready to hit the road in the morning, I encountered a sign I had never see before. I don’t understand several things about this prohibition.<\/p>\n The next day, early, I got hooked up and ready to hit the road.<\/p>\n And, yes, I’m still with her!<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I only had two days in Rhode Island, but I got to spend three in Connecticut. The odd thing about Connecticut is that it is kind of hard to find a place to camp. 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