By the Old Mill Stream

New England is the land of mills and streams....beautiful countryside!  We drove around this morning and went to this mill by a stream.

Across the road was the Martha Mary Chapel.

Here's the Red Stone School that was the setting/background for the nursery rhyme, "Mary Had a Little Lamb."

The Wayside Inn on the "Old Boston Post Road," the setting/background for Longfellow's collection of poems "Tales of The Wayside Inn."

If it weren't for the electric fan (not noticed until after I took the photo), this tavern scene could be from the 1770's. Bartender is reading about the uprising of the colonists against England.

Drove into a Shaker village that is no longer occupied by Shakers, except for the cemetery.  I guess celibacy had it advantages, people living into their 80's and 90's in the 1800's!  Years past the projected life expectancy.

Drove back to Fruitlands Museum for a light lunch on the patio.  Here's a photo of an artist doing an abstract painting.  Just to the right of his canvas and down the steep hill is the home that the Alcotts lived in.

Well, it's been two weeks of traveling for hubby and I..... we're still talking to each other and both seem to be enjoying this time together.