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Massachusetts (December 2015):
Nauset marsh, Cape Cod.
Race Point beach, Cape Cod.
Salt marsh and breakwaterwalk in Provincetown,
Cape Cod.
New-Hampshire (December 2015, June
2017, and June 2019):
Adams Point (December 2015).
Lonesome Lake and around (December 2015).
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Lake Winnipesaukee seen from Mount Major
(June 2017)
Murals in the town of Keene (June 2019).
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Maine (December 2015, June 2017, June
2018):
Piscataqua River and Wood Island seen from Kittery
Point (December 2015).
Nubble lighthouse at Cape Neddick
(December 2015).
In Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge (December 2015).
In Rachel Carson National Wildlife Refuge (June 2018).
In Kennebunkport (June 2018).
In Wolfe′s Neck Wood State Park, southeast of Freeport (June 2018):
- Tiny Googins Island (sanctuary for nesting
ospreys).
- Caterpillar. Its reddish hairs are stiff and strong enough to penetrate
human skin and cause severe lasting pain.
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Meckerel Cove, Bailey Island (December 2015).
Fort Popham
(June 2018), located at the entrance of the Kennebec river south of Bath. Its construction
started in 1861 to protect the shipbuilding industry then located upriver in
Bath, but was never completed. Made of large granite blocks, this half-circular
fort is not very elegant; but, had it been completed and used, it would
probably have served its purpose very effectively.
Fort Knox
(June 2017), located south of Bangor. This impressive granite fort contains
mounts for 135 cannons. It was built during the 19th century to protect the
Penobscot River from naval attacks, but these attacks never happened.
Vermont (June 2018 and June 2019):
Beautifully built covered bridge over the Ottauquechee
river in the town of Woodstock (June 2018).
The Quechee gorge (located east of Woodstock)
seen from the bridge above it (June 2018).
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Lower part of the Quechee gorge (June 2018).
Waterfall at the upper end of the Quechee gorge
(June 2018).
Dewey′s Mill pond above the waterfall (June 2018).
In the town of Chester (June 2019):
- Entrance of the old Brookside
cemetery. The monument on the left was erected in 1884 and is dedicated to
soldiers of the Civil War. The names of Vermont soldiers who served during that
war are written on four plaques posted on its base. The white house behind the
Civil War monument is the renovated former hearse house (dating 1830) that
keeps the last horse-drawn hearse purchased in 1907. On the right of the photo,
the 1850 Public Tomb behind the canon was used in the winter, when the frozen
ground was too hard to dig graves, to store bodies of deceased people.
- Old graves in the Brookside cemetery.
- House in the Stone Village of Chester.
This so-called village contains a rare concentration of ″snecked ashlar″ style houses dating from the first
half of the 19th century. This style of construction, rare in the United
States, consists of affixing stone plates to a rubble wall. The technique was
introduced locally by two Scottish masons who came to Chester in 1832.
The Vermont Country Store in the town of
Weston (June 2019), which claims to be the ″Purveyors of the Practical
and Hard-to-Find″. Entering in this nostalgic store, which opened in
1946, is definitively stepping back in time. Many products on sale are actually
unusual, useful, and interesting.
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The Henry Bridge (June 2019), one of the three covered bridges in the
town of Bennington.
New York State (June 2018):
Left: Bridge across Lake Champlain between Vermont and New York State.
Right: Champlain Memorial lighthouse at Crown Point on the western side of the
lake.
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Fort Ticonderoga, some 14 miles south of
the lighthouse, also on the western side of Lake Champlain. It was initially built
by the French in 1755 (under the name Fort Carillon), then taken by the British
in 1759 and renamed Ticonderoga. It was captured by the American
revolutionaries in 1775, retaken by the British in 1777, and retaken by the
American revolutionaries in 1781. It was visited by then General George
Washington in 1783. It was restored in the early 20th century.
Hike to the Giant′s Nubble, located in
the Adirondacks, southeast of Lake Placid:
- The Giant′s Washbowl, a small lake below the Nubble.
- Views of the Giant′s Washbowl and surrounding mountains before
reaching the Nubble.
- The Giant Mountain seen from the Nubble.
