This is Ericka's last visit as a barbarian from the hinterlands--next 251 Club trip she'll be a resident of Vermont (though, like me, she'll always be a flatlander according to Vermont natives)!
Just before heading out, a flock of Canada geese came over to the pond for a flyby.
I forgot our leashes at Liberal Mountain last week, but the dogz actually did well just under voice control.
Kayla was so good that she stayed in our spot until I shot this and released her!
Look, I don't do this to become educated, m'kay?
On the way to NTodd's Pa's Ma's in Maine we always pass by Rt 102, which heads up to Guildhall, so Ericka and I decided to head over that way since it's not too far from the Fortress (history, demographics):
Nobody is quite sure what Wentworth had in mind with this name. There is only one other place in the world where it is used, and that is London's Guildhall, the equivalent of a New England town hall: built in 1411, destroyed in the great fire of 1666, rebuilt, and destroyed again in World War II. Perhaps as substantiation, perhaps not, Guildhall's Town Hall is conspicuously called The "Guild Hall."
Another possibility is a play on the name of the principal grantee and four other family members of the same name: Hall.
Many early records spell the name "Gilhall", reflecting the Vermonter's tendency to soften of skip entirely the "d" sound in many words.
Nice courthouse.
Looks like some renovations going on at the lieberry.
Stained glass? Well, I guess it's a Cathedral of Books.
Yeah, I have a thing about intersections, which reminds me...
The Guildhall Village General Store seems to have closed down.
Guildhall is just across the Connecticut from New Hampshire, and not super far from Mt Washington, so spur-of-the-moment we headed over to Gorham and drive up the toll road even though it was quite cloudy.
We figured we might be able to get above the cloud line on the mountain, but we couldn't go up because there was some motorcycle event and they weren't allowing private cars up (we didn't want to take a guided tour since we had the dogz).
I did get Ericka a Mt Washington sweatshirt, which she's wearing here after the dogz decided to run away from her in Lunenburg.
So we got our shot, but the dogz decided they'd behaved for far too long.
One more 251 stop on our way back home (history, demographics):
As with nearby Brunswick and Ferdinand, Lunenberg was named in honor of the victor at Minden in the Seven Years War, Prince Karl Wilhelm Ferdinand of Brunswick-Lüneburg, as part of Benning Wentworth's ongoing but unsuccessful efforts to win favor with George III.
The Old Congregational Church is said to be the most photographed church in the US (though Townshend makes the same claim).
The Old Congregational Church is naked!
I never knew you could just remove a steeple like that.
I just liked the look of this window in what appears to be the old town hall (the current one I guess is across the town commons off Rt 2).
And then on toward home...
Back in Westmore, I liked the clouds in between Mt Hor and Mt Pisgah.
Just down the road from the Fortress.
Weird weather today, with the clouds making for some less-than-optimal lighting, but we timed things pretty well in terms of rain. Excellent t-storm when we got home, which was wonderful to watch from our deck...
ntodd
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