Yesterday I went out to the JFK presidential library and museum, these Kennedy’s are kinda a big deal in Massachusetts. They have some pretty impressive artifacts from his life and remakes of the oval office etc, his comments about his trip to Germany in 1939 were very interesting. Overall a little too apotheosis for my taste but it does show what they think of the guy even this number of years latter. I realized this family is a metaphor for this part of the country a mixture of old money mad desire for power and liberal (at least by American standards) all and all I am with Shona Lang on this one
This morning I court the train up the coast to Portland Maine, this is about a two hour trip though some quite spectacular countryside. There is a whole lot of bush around here (maples etc) that are just starting to change colors so this is great to see. Portland itself is an old coastal settlement, my initial look around town it looks a little too much of a tourist trap for me but it is in a pretty impressive part of the country.
Glad to see you ended up in the right state! But do remember, it's forest not bush, or you might get them just as confused as General Hooker.
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ReplyDeleteHope you get your foot out of the tourist trap.