Just wanted to post up a few more things from the past two days and then I am done.
A few pics and history of the area we are living and some wedding stuff.
Yesterday, we went up to the Boston area to meet with our photographer. Before we got home we stop in Stonington, CT which is 10 miles from us. It is one of my favorite towns in the country. It has a wealth of history. The rain from the hurricane off of New England put a damper on the day.
First is a little Expedition related history.
This is Nathaniel Palmer's house.
Nathaniel Palmer, born in 1799, went to sea at an early age. Nathaniel became a ship's master before his 19th birthday.
Nathaniel, captain of the 47-foot sloop
Hero, pressed southward in search of new seal rookeries. On November 17, 1820 he sighted "land not yet laid down on my chart." He had discovered a place which would later become known as Antarctica and was the first to set foot on it.
Next we stopped at Stonington Point where during the War of 1812, "four British vessels under the command of Sir Thomas Hardy, protege of Lord Nelson, appeared offshore. They sent a delegation into the town, which was suspected of harboring torpedoes, to demand immediate surrender and evacuation within an hour. Two of Stonington's leading citizens spoke for all with a note that stated, “We shall defend the place to the last extremity; should it be destroyed, we shall perish in its ruins.” Their entire arsenal consisted of two 18-pound cannons and one 6-pounder, set up on a hastily dug earthwork not far from the Point.
For three days 158 Royal Navy guns pounded the town, destroying as many as forty buildings, but causing few casualties. The only death was that of an elderly woman who was being tended in her last illness by her daughter and who refused to move inland with the other noncombatants. The British, by contrast, suffered many dead and wounded, although the exact total is still undetermined, and on the afternoon of August 14, the battered fleet sailed off."
The town collected as many British Cannon balls as they could and placed them around town. You can see one atop the monument.
Sorry for the history lessons, but it is why I love the area.
We then approached Mystic and went to where in the 1600's there was a Pequot settlement.
Yes where there are now houses and roads once stood a settlement until the massacre and nothing to acknowledge what happened here.
Mystic massacre
The Mystic massacre took place on May 26, 1637, when English settlers under Captain John Mason, and Narragansett and Mohegan allies set fire to a Pequot fort near the Mystic River, shooting whatever victims attempted to escape the wooden palisade fortress, killing the entire village of mostly women and children, in retaliation for previous Pequot attacks.
Okay, I am done with the history lesson.
Today we went to Deer Lake to see where we are getting married and take pics for reference.
This is a scout camp in Killingworth, CT which is along the shoreline. You would never know it is a camp and it's absolutely beautiful.
This pic is the first part of this large property and the rangers home, barn, and work sheds.
Trail to the ceremony site.
Here is the area we are getting married at.
Okay, now we are basically moved in. We have finally been able to sit down and relax for a night, a first since we moved here.
