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| Other fun during the week... The Boston Museum of Science Butterfly Garden 5/26/05 Concord 5/27/05 Cape Cod 5/29/05 |
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| On Thursday I visited the Museum of Science and I went to the Planetarium, saw an IMAX movie, and saw a bunch of their exhibits. My favorite was the butterfly garden :) |
| On Friday I went to Concord for a few hours before the Rehearsal. I went to the Minuteman Visitor Center, ate lunch, then visited the Sleepy Hollow Cemetary where Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Louisa May Alcott are all buried. |
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| I got the sense that not many people visit the gravesites because there were few signs of which cemetary entrance to go into, where to park, and where to walk. This is the clearest sign I saw, all these authors are buried near one another on a ridge. |
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| The Thoreau family plot has this large plaque but Henry's headstone is tiny, only about 6 inches high! |
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| Emerson had the most impressive headstone - a huge granite (or marble?) rock with a plaque on it. |
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| I had lunch in downtown Concord which is a charming town that seems like it hasn't changed all that much since the time of its founding. The "Shot heard round the world" that began the Revolutionary War was fired nearby at the Old North Bridge in what is now Minuteman National Historic Park... Click here for a previous visit. |
| On Sunday Kristine, Joe, and I drove out to Cape Cod National Seashore. We took the scenic route along Route 2A and passed through many idyllic towns. We stopped at a Tea Shop in Sandwich and then just outside Sandwich we stopped at Green Briar Farms where the tales of Peter Rabbit and all his friends originated. Burgess who wrote the children's story apparently wandered around these woods and was inspired to write about the bunnies and foxes and other animals that lived there. And lo and behold in a rabbit hutch there we saw "The" Peter Rabbit! We then walked around the ol' Briar Patch on a trail that skirted a pond. We saw some of Peter's turtle friends there. |
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| Cape Cod National Seashore was established in 1961 and it contains 44,000 acres along a 40-mile section between Chatham and Provincetown. It was formed by a glacial deposit that is constantly undergoing natural changes as winds and water move sand along the shorelines, tearing away one place and building up another. American Indians began living on the Outer Cape about 10,000 years ago. Pilgrims arrived in 1620 and stayed briefly before sailing across the bay to Plymouth. |
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| Salt Pond near the Eastham Visitor Center |
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| My sister and I at Nauset Light Beach |
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| Kristine and Joe look for sea life |
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| Nauset Lighthouse |
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| Wellfleet Harbor |
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| Joe and Kristine on Uncle Tim's Bridge |
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