Final Week of Vacation

On our return from Thanksgiving weekend in VT, I took my final five days of vacation to visit some of the local spots in our area.  Tammy and I spent Monday, November 26th  and Tuesday the 27th visiting Historic Deerfield MA.  Deerfield is the site of two "massacres".  The first one during King Philips War and the other during the French and Indian War.  The second "massacre" is what put Deerfield on the map but  not much time is spent on this event.  Historic Deerfield is all about visiting various homes that detail the way of life, furniture, and textiles of the Colonial Period to the 19th Century.  We visited half the homes on Moday, spent the night at The Deerfield Inn, then finished up the other homes on Tuesday and headed home. 

On Wednesday, November 28th, Tammy and I went to the New England Air Museum in Windsor Locks, CT.  It has an area dedicated to the history of the 57th Fighter Group in WWII as well as exhibits detailing the Tuskegee Airmen, the history of balloon flight, and the history of the helicopter.  There were quite a few military planes as well as commercial planes on display.  Both of us were able to sit in the cockpit of a P-47.  I was able to peer in to the bomb bay of a B-29.

Thursday the 29th, Tammy and I headed to Hartford to visit the CT Old State House for a visit and tour.  We then walked over to the Wadsworth Athenuem, an art musuem, for a tour and visit.  On Friday, Tammy went back to work, and I raked for the last time until spring.

We now await the return of the girls from Pensacola for Christmas break.