The town has a Green, a large grassy park in the middle of town with beautiful old trees. It is a nice central attraction and meeting area. Our tour guide, Lauren, told us it was not always so nice. The settlers used to graze their sheep and cattle there and it had a swampy area. Finally they decided to clean it up, and it was worth it. Here's another typical New England church, seen from the green:
We looked at a lot of old houses. This one was a "Sabbath House":
Try to read the sign:
People who came to town for church on Sunday couldn't always get back home that night, so they would stay over at one of the Sabbath houses.
Here are some of the other houses on the Green:
The one above is the Hyland House, built by the ancestors of one of the women in our tour group. She is also related to the builder of the Whitfield house.
Dottie and I got tired of looking at houses, so we hid out in a big old maple tree:
One of Poppa's favorite things in town was the old fashioned hardware store. Last week we stopped at a Walmart to get a small electric heater for Harvey. We had two choices, and the one we got didn't work very well. At this little hardware store, there were 6 different models, and the one we picked works very well. We dropped the other one off at Walmart later.
Poppa wanted to wait until we got to Maine to have lobster, but we couldn't wait so we stopped at The Place:
A really funky place. Maybe you can see this video from YouTube:
http://m.youtube.com/watch?v=gOIuSW_raHE&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3DgOIuSW_raHE
- Tigger and Dottie seeing the country with Nana and Poppa
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