Travel Update, Wethersfield, Conn, 7/7/2014

Good evening everyone from Wethersfield, Connecticut where we are checked in at a Comfort Inn. It has been a very hot day and we have covered a lot of territory and seen a lot of interesting things. I will tell you about a few of them and then in some future posting I will go into greater detail. I guess you are starting to realize that I have an awful lot of postings to catch up on and that is correct. The Lord willing I will get to it. First thing this morning we went back to the 
Freedom Trail by taxi and picked up where we left off yesterday. Our first stop was at the Boston National Historical Park The Charlestown Navy Yard. This is under the control of the National Park Service. For years nothing was done to update it but now a rather massive project is underway to do a lot of restoration, new sewer line and all that sort of infrastructure. There is a Museum here which is very nice a covers a lot of interesting historical facts. Permanently docked here is a destroyer and the main attraction The USS Constitution ( Old Iron Sides. ) Of course neither of these ships is open on Monday.

Boston National Historical Park

USS Cassin Young DD793

USS Constitution Painting

USS Constitution

Following our tour of the the Navy Yard we followed the Freedom Trail up to Bunker Hill.

 Bunker Hill Monument

Bunker Hill Monument ( Col. William Prescott )

Bunker Hill is the end of the Freedom Trail and we walked back down to the Navy Yard and caught a cab to go back to the Motel where we checked out, loaded Lady Blue and hit the road for  North Hampton, Mass to look at Calvin Coolidge Presidential Library and Museum

 which is located on the campus of Smith College. His Library and Museum is located in two room of the college library. He donated all his papers to the college. 

Smith College Library

Calvin Coolidge Plaque

Entrance To Coolidge Library And Museum.

We just returned from an excellent meal at Red Lobster and we are all tired so I suspect we will be turning out the light shortly. Tomorrow we plan to head for Philadelphia, PA. It has been a wonderful day so as I always say remember God loves you and so do I.

Grandpa Bill