In the morning we picked it up again, having breakfast at a little hole in the wall place, with actual holes in the wall, then on to Mystic. I had been here in the late 80s and they have done a lot of good work developing the area. The view below is from the overlook across the river.
Mystic Seaport had a very nice visitor center that I didn't remember at all, so I'm guessing it came sometime after the 80s.
There were boats of all sizes, most of which to me now looked like a lot of work to maintain, much less operate. Fiberglass rules!
The old rope making loft had a lot of the same functionality of today's composite facilities. And it was at least as clean as some of them.
They had a little shop for maintaining the boats they rent out for the day.
In addition to the blacksmith below, there was a cooper we talked to for a while. Using traditional techniques, she had spent about a week making a bucket. Yay industrial revolution!
More boat repair and maintenance shops.
There was a huge diorama of what the area looked like during its heyday.
The wind started picking up and the lines were bound up somehow so the volunteers had to go up top to pull in this sail. This looks like an insurance nightmare.
Then we were on the road again, past the Providence area, for the night at a Holiday Inn resort style place that time forgot. I’m sure it was pretty awesome in the late 70s or early 80s, and it was relatively cheap for the larger Boston area.
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