My daughter and I visited Salem, Massachusetts this past week. It was a beautiful day, so we walked around the grounds of the Peabody-Essex Museum and explored the Faberge exhibit inside the main museum building. I am right in the middle of a great historical novel and the really old Puritan architecture of a few of the old houses just captured my imagination. Just imagine all the feet that kicked that door open because arms were loaded with wood for the fires. Who peered out those windows over the years watching neighbors and strangers pass by? Who lovingly tended those mullioned panes over the years or cared for those cedar shake shingles on the roof? What inspired that red dooryard rose hedge? There is so much history right beside us as we walk through this life ... amazing, huh? Don't you wish you could time travel? I do.
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You're so right, there is history everywhere we go, but we so often don't look any further than what is right before us. Great pictures, and intriguing thoughts today.
ReplyDeleteInteresting thoughts you had when visiting an historical building. Great descriptions. Particularly like this: "... all the feet that kicked that door open because arms were loaded with wood for the fires."
ReplyDeleteSalem is one of the neatest places to roam around! If you like history you have to read Katherine Kent's The Traitor's wife and The Heretic's daughter. About a woman who was hanged in Salem for being a witch.
ReplyDeleteOh, I adore the historic buildings and the essence of Salem...having only experienced it in photos, I still feel connected.
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Yes I wish I could time travel, great adventure!
ReplyDeleteI love the way you have composed your pictures.
ReplyDeleteGREAT shots and great narration. It would be great to burst in with an armload of wood.
ReplyDeleteTHANKS for sharing.
Elizabeth
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I always feel like that when I visit houses - I love to imagine how the people lived, and what they thought. http://chriscross53.blogspot.co.uk/
ReplyDeleteWhat a lovely coincidence of your reading material and your trip. I would like to visit the Northeast some day.
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I do. And we do, don't we, when we read.
ReplyDeleteHi, Susan, thanks for stopping by my Fourth Wish blog. Yes, I do wish I could time travel. I love history, and it would be fun to go back and find out what really happened. (My favorite era is the Victorian era, and I have a second blog devoted to that that I hope you'll visit sometime.) I particularly liked your musing about who tended the mullioned windows.
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