Gillette Castle – East Haddam CT
The most brilliant castle I have seen in New England.
The most brilliant castle I have seen in New England.
Just another day seeing what kind of trouble I can get into…
The memorial of a ten year old boy stops me in my tracks.
I return to my home town to peruse the cemetery on a rainy day.
I revisit a site from my grade school years to find that adult perspective is a hell of a thing.
My third cemetery of the day gives me a long pause as I ponder the brevity of life and the mysteries of those who have already left us behind.
I find myself hiking past a historical landmark where hostages were once exchanged from the Narragansett, Wampanoag and Nashaway/Nipmuc back to the English Puritans in the late 1600’s.
I seemingly ordinairy cemetery in the middle of the woods yields some enchanting gravestones.
Fort Knox is an enormous castle-like maze that I sure to delight any brave child or child-at-heart.
Fort Popham is a nice historical detour if you’re already at the beach down the road…