Nancy in New England: August 2013

Saturday, August 31, 2013

Ogunquit, Maine - Saturday

Late lunch at Caffe Prego in Ogunquit, Maine

We love this library building.

Perkins Cove - on the ocean

Shaker Museum Alfred, Maine - Saturday

Alfred, Maine was home to the first Shaker Village in Maine, it is no longer in operation, but is run as a museum by a very nice group of volunteers. The Shakers from this village moved to the village at Sabbathday Lake Maine where there are still 2 shakers living there.

The Shakers at Alfred made fine spinning wheels

Bed from original Shaker village at Alfred.

Grain winnower

Mural depicting the Shaker Village in Alfred.

The Shakers were celibate so many new members were brought to the village as orphans.

Alfred is a really nice town and has 48 houses on the National Historic Register - to learn more: http://www.nps.gov/nr/travel/shaker/alf.htm

Moffit-Ladd House - Portsmouth, NH - Saturday

National Historic Landmark celebrating its 250th birthday in 2013. The house has been an historic house museum for more than 100 years, having first opened its doors to the public in June of 1912. One of America's finest Georgian mansions, the house was built for merchant John Moffatt between 1760 and 1763. During the Revolution, it was the home of General William Whipple, one of New Hampshire's three signers of the Declaration of Independence and his wife Katharine Moffatt Whipple. In 1817 the house passed to John Moffatt's great granddaughter, Maria Tufton Haven Ladd. Her son, Alexander Hamilton Ladd, lived in the house from 1862 until his death in 1900. The house is furnished to showcase its original features and to reflect its use as a private home from 1763 through 1900.

This house is directing in front of the Piscataqua River where we got on the Harbor Cruise boat ride

The Queen visits Moffit-Ladd

The garden in back of house - a wedding to be held here in the afternoon

Sundial in the garden

Back of house.

Photography was not allowed inside the house, so if you want to learn more about the house: http://www.moffattladd.org/

The Queen eats swordfish for the first time - Friday

Harbor Cruise - Portsmouth, New Hampshire - Friday

A beautiful day for a boat ride:

New Memorial Bridge in background - spans the Piscataqua River from Portsmouth, New Hampshire to Kittery Maine

The tugboats that help pull the big boats into the harbor

This barge was unloading salt from Chili to be used on the roads in the winter

The Queen waiting for the boat

The boat pulling into the dock

On the boat

Pulling out

Coming up to the Memorial Bridge

Close to the draw bridge

Portsmouth Naval Yard - oldest in USA - works on subs

broke many records in sub building during WWII

There are currently 4 subs in the yard - you can see one on the right hand side

Coast guard vessels in the yard

Navy Prison - now closed - known as the toughest Navy prison in the USA when in operation. Here is a story about Humphrey Bogart: Bogart was injured while on assignment to take a naval prisoner to Portsmouth Naval Prison in Kittery, Maine. Supposedly, while changing trains in Boston, the handcuffed prisoner asked Bogart for a cigarette and while Bogart looked for a match, the prisoner raised his hands, smashed Bogart across the mouth with his cuffs, cutting Bogart's lip, and fled. The prisoner was eventually taken to Portsmouth. An alternate explanation, is that in the process of uncuffing an inmate, Bogart was struck in the mouth when the inmate wielded one open, uncuffed bracelet while the other was still on his wrist.

By the time Bogart was treated by a doctor, the scar had already formed.