Our reason for going to Fitchburg, Massachusetts, was to visit Paul's daughter, Denise and her husband, Brian, and daughter, Courtney. Denise took us to New Hampshire to photograph a covered bridge and you will find pictures taken there on the New Hampshire page. We stayed in their beautiful authentic antique furnished home and Paul toured me around Pepperell to see his birthplace, school, home after the service, and downtown. Pepperell also has a covered bridge.
It is nice to see commuter trains are popular in Mass. Many folks are buying homes here, restoring them, and commuting to the city on the train for work.
It didn't take us long to land here for Paul to have his fried clams.
My lobster dinner was $12.99.
Paul's home in Hickory Hills when Denise was a child.
The lake where he and Denise fished.
Hickory Hills Lake
Paul lived in this house in Pepperell as a child. It had been a candy store in Washington's day.
Typical 1700s houses in the area, which was a hotel and Washington stayed here.
Pepperell High School, where Paul graduated in 1957...same year as his car.
Pepperell house where Paul lived in his youth.
Downtown Pepperell.
Right, late 1700s, early 1800s graveyard in Fitchburg with slate gravestones
Brian studying an ancient inscription.
This whole area of Mass. has stone-fenced property lines, intricately built with stones from the fields.
I loved the foggy, damp, cool weather this day, it seemed perfect for visiting a cemetery
We wondered about the machinery it took back then to make such nice engravings on the stones.
Denise and Bryan's home.
Denise and Brian are rightfully proud of the home they've built themselves, and the yard and woods surrounding it.
Every time I walked around their property, I found another scene from 'Home and Garden,' what a peaceful place to live.
Brian's brother's house in Fitchburg.
Townsend's Square
Former mill in Townsend and the dam near it.
She and Brian took us to her employer's condo and new boat at Hyannis, then we took the passenger ferry 26 miles to Nantucket on Nantucket Island where I photographed the Brant Point Light. I photographed the lighthouse from the ferry as we came into Nantucket Harbor, then I walked to the same lighthouse from downtown and took more detailed shots from land.
The lake behind the mill's dam is Townsend Harbor
House in which Paul was born, in Pepperell, without the addition on the left
Covered Bridge in Pepperell, MA. It has two walkways safely away from traffic.
This horsepower has a saddle, saddle bags with fringe, and cattle horns.
Pepperell School where Paul attended the elementary grades.
Paul lived in this house in Pepperell as a child. It had been a candy store in Washington's day.
Round house in Townsend.
Antique shop in Townsend.
Back part of the same antique shop.
Dueling pistors in the shop, only $65,000.
Rounding the point coming into Nantucket Harbor, I photographed Brant Point Light as we passed.
Once we landed and had lunch, I hiked out to the light for a photo study from land.
I found a spot where there were 5 leading lines to the light; two are the horizon, one the walkway, one the seaweed on the sand, and the 5th rocks to the right.
This is the traditional photo of the Brant Light.
Photo instructors say to take things out of the center of the photo.
Decomissioned light ship sits beyond Brant Harbor Light.
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