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Solar eclipseCertainly many people will have much better photos of yesterday's solar eclipse than this, but here is what it looked like in Bridgton, Maine.
Jarrell PlantationThe term "plantation" brings to mind a long tree-lined drive ending with a mansion-sized white house with columns supporting the front. A place where, before the War, the property-owning family maintained their traditions while their workers maintained the fields. And cotton was King. Well, there was that, but I discovered there were more of what I came to think of as "middle-class" plantations. Such is the old Jarrell Plantation in Juliette, Georgia. The family donated the properties to the State of Georgia in 1974, keeping the "new" house in the family and running it as a B&B.
A mural on the foundation of the visitors center showing the layout of the property behind you.
The barn and garden: the row of tall plants is sugar cane.
Down the hill is the sawmill, cotton gin, boiler for the steam engines, and other things for the working plantation. Up on higher ground are each of the houses, built by the different generations.
The "new" house.
The sawmill used to make lumber for the surrounding neighborhood include a nearby church.
Blacksmith shop
Wheat storage bins
Really you need to explore this place yourself. And go on one of the weekends when the historical interpretors are there. If you find any more online about this, please leave links in the comments. You are given a guide in a three-ring binder while you tour the grounds, but there are no pamphlets to bring home. Thus the lack of details describing the photos. This was the first of my trips this summer. More to come as I catch-up. Aftermath of stormsA tornado in Bridgton took down some of the trees on this photogenic island in Moose Pond. This was back at the beginning of July.
See what it used to look like in this post. And all the heavy rain brought the Saco River in Fryeburg up to life-threatening levels.
Northern New HampshireTime to catch up with my summertime activities: Weeks State Park in northern New Hampshire first.
A covered bridge in Lancaster, N.H.
And June lupines in Sugar Hill, N. N. with the White Mountains for a backdrop.
2017 Paris Hill Maine Founder's Day posterIt is that time of year again:
Maybe we'll meet there. I took this photo as we were packing up from the photo session with the car in last year's poster. The Duesenberg was just parked in the line-up of cars in the car barn, but all that chrome just calls attention to itself. This is a fundraiser for the historic library on Paris Hill, Maine. |
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