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Author: Theophanes Avery
Theophanes Avery is a whimsical travel blogger that is hopelessly in love with New England and all it's weird places, people, and things. Besides running way too many blogs they are the author of three books, at least one of them good, and they also enjoy raising aquarium fish in Walsted tanks, sculpting, Sharpie doodling, knitting, tattooing leather, homesteading, and whatever other hobby tickles their raging ADD. Less fortunately they are a hopelessly impoverished spoonie yelling to the world, "WE NEED MORE COMMUNITY!" but alas no one's listening. Make sure to find them on the FaceBook. They love new oddball friends. Fly the freak flag high my darlings!
Mercy Brown “Vampire” Grave – Exeter Rhode Island
New England is the place to live if you’re into horror. The reason is pretty simple – we have a long and strange history that revels in the terrifying. From our first white settlers we’ve have been a deeply superstitious bunch and this is pretty apparent in the case of Mercy Brown. Mercy Brown was… Continue reading Mercy Brown “Vampire” Grave – Exeter Rhode Island
Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry
Part of the fun of letting my travel companions decide the locations is the fact I end up in even more bizarre places than I would normally. The puppetry museum was definitely one of these! We’d both had an interest in such things but I probably would have avoided being a lone person wandering the… Continue reading Ballard Institute and Museum of Puppetry
Gay City State Park – Hebron CT
Sometimes I get tired of finding new locations or I just lack inspiration. It’s at these times I like to hand the torch over to my travel companions and tell them to pick a place. I’m always happy to drive and the surprise of these adventures ticks off my ever expanding need for novelty. On… Continue reading Gay City State Park – Hebron CT
Gillette Castle – East Haddam CT
The most brilliant castle I have seen in New England.
Holy Land USA Abandoned Amusement Park – Waterbury CT
Another two hour drive to… a very strange location indeed.
Laura’s Tower Stockbridge MA
I don’t think I expected to challenge myself quite so much on my birthday but it was well worth it!
Rocky Point Abandoned Amusement Park Warwick RI
After escaping the velociraptors in the Enchanted Forest we continued our adventuring to yet another abandoned amusement park in Rhode Island. This one was more familiar to my travel companion as he was here in the mid 1990’s before it was abandoned making happy childhood memories. Curranty it’s been transformed into a regular park. Most… Continue reading Rocky Point Abandoned Amusement Park Warwick RI
The Enchanted Forest Abandoned Amusement Park Hope Valley RI
Last week’s adventures had a theme – abandoned theme parks! And we started with this one which was… an adventure. It always is. It was another FaceBook suggestion which I have found to be a total coin toss when it comes to being worth it. I thought this was the place with the abandoned fairy… Continue reading The Enchanted Forest Abandoned Amusement Park Hope Valley RI
Abandoned Sanitorium – Fairfield Maine
Who knew poking around an abandoned hospital would teach me so much about my family history?