Horses & Clocks

Mass. and Rhode Island are now behind us as we are in Conn. near Plymouth. We found Mass. to be a very pretty place with the cedar shake sided homes mixed with the older style of Colonial homes. Last Sat.and Sunday were spent in Rhode Island. We didn't do any site seeing while there, but Sue did attend an interesting church in North Scituate. It was 175 years old ( Baptist ) and had box pews, where in days past, you had your own pew each week. She says it is a much more formal Church than what is the norm today. Yesterday ( Monday) we did a couple more museum visits. These were both in Bristol CT. The first was the Carousel Museum. This place has a very large number of vintage "merry-go-round" animals, primarily horses. The museum contains a restoration shop, which restores their own as well as other privatly owned animals. Many of the displayed horses date from the early 1900's. A very interesting place indeed. Our next stop was the Watch and Clock Museum. The oldest piece here is a single hand wall clock ( as they all were originally) dated 1680. The rooms of this converted 1801 house, each hold a different syle of time piece. One room may have all grandfather or tall clocks, while another will have all wall clock. There is a display case of nothing but hour glass style time pieces. All of the working time pieces strike on the quarter and full hour ( thankfully, they are not all exactly the right time). Tomorrow it's into Pennsulvania to visit a friend and her husband and baby ( with another on the way).

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