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Friday, January 17th, 2014The End of the Road: Salem and Boston
Monday, December 30th, 2013
Bob and I had been on the road for two full weeks, weaving throughout the New England states and east border of New York state, but it was nearly time for the road trip portion of our journey to come to an end. We awoke in Salem, Massachusetts on the morning of Tuesday, July 17, 2012, at the Clipper Ship Inn. We weren’t in a tremendous hurry that morning, and didn’t get out of our motel until around 9:30am. Read the rest of this entry »
Theodore Roosevelt and Me
Friday, December 20th, 2013
If Vice President Garret Hobart hadn’t died in office, we might have ended up with a very different country than we did. And Mount Rushmore would have looked wildly different. President William McKinley was forced to choose another running mate for his ticket in the 1901 election. After President McKinley took an assassin’s bullet six months into his second term, his Vice President Theodore Roosevelt, a former Governor of New York (and incidentally the uncle of future First Lady Eleanor Roosevelt) assumed the presidency. Read the rest of this entry »
Finishing Up the Maine Course, Swinging by New Hampshire, and Coming Full Circle Back to Massachusettes
Wednesday, November 27th, 2013
Bob and I had spent the better part of the last two day in the state of Maine (with a brief interlude on Canada’s Campobello Island), and for good reason. Since I had never been in this relatively large state, there was much to see. On Monday, July 16, 2012, we spent the first half our day finishing it up. We had stayed in Augusta the night before for a very specific reason: to be near the state capitol. Frankly, I was a bit glad that the first tour wasn’t until 9am as I would have a chance to sleep in even if only for a little bit. Bob and I got up and had a pretty hearty breakfast at the motel consisting of scrambled and hard-boiled eggs, sausage, blueberry yogurt, and toast, and then hit the road, arriving at the Maine State House a little before 9am. Read the rest of this entry »