{"id":373,"date":"2014-04-22T05:13:00","date_gmt":"2014-04-22T05:13:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.littlewanderingwren.com\/2014\/04\/if-its-monday-it-must-be-new-england.html\/"},"modified":"2018-08-02T11:53:08","modified_gmt":"2018-08-02T04:53:08","slug":"if-its-monday-it-must-be-new-england","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.littlewanderingwren.com\/staging\/8794\/2014\/04\/22\/if-its-monday-it-must-be-new-england\/","title":{"rendered":"If it&#8217;s Monday it must be New England!"},"content":{"rendered":"<div dir=\"ltr\" style=\"text-align: left;\">\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; color: #3c3d47; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1.5714285714em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;\">\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">It snowed last week.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Whilst the locals are well over their long cold winter,\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">for those of us visiting from Australia, this was exciting.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">We don&#8217;t ever wake to snow on the ground in Melbourne!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">There was not a humongous amount of snow,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">no huge deluge that would stop us from getting places,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">but a pretty amount, a light frosting\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">that made everything in New England look beautiful.<\/span><\/div>\n<table style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--FKki8_n5UI\/U1Umlhi3lYI\/AAAAAAAACVk\/1HD1ioYL5DU\/s1600\/NE1.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/--FKki8_n5UI\/U1Umlhi3lYI\/AAAAAAAACVk\/1HD1ioYL5DU\/s1600\/NE1.jpg?resize=640%2C484\" width=\"640\" height=\"484\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">A chilly start to the day<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">We are in the States visiting my daughter on exchange at NYU and were driving to my Uncle and Aunt&#8217;s house in Litchfield, North Western Connecticut.<br \/>\nThe town is a two and a half drive from New York city.<br \/>\nThe drive was an experience for <a href=\"http:\/\/littlewanderingwren.blogspot.com\/2014\/04\/victory-fdr-style.html\">me at the wheel<\/a>!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>We wanted to show our son life out of New York city<br \/>\nWe loved the quaint main streets and village greens<br \/>\nof the small towns along the way,<br \/>\nwith the American Flags fluttering.<br \/>\nEach town we drove through we said<br \/>\n&#8220;wow &#8211; that&#8217;s pretty!&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>We said that a lot!<span style=\"color: #3c3d47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 22px;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><span style=\"color: #3c3d47; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small; line-height: 22px;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yNctVq0s7p8\/U1UrCKNmrWI\/AAAAAAAACWA\/DcWbHvPr68E\/s1600\/NY3.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-yNctVq0s7p8\/U1UrCKNmrWI\/AAAAAAAACWA\/DcWbHvPr68E\/s1600\/NY3.jpg?resize=640%2C640\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/span><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">The houses got bigger and bigger, as we drove through the scenic hills\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">and valleys\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">there were more and more pretty churches and houses.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">&#8230; and a few power lines!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-qZp8dr3DfzQ\/U1UnuxJFCrI\/AAAAAAAACV0\/-cAli8Yj97U\/s1600\/NE2.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-qZp8dr3DfzQ\/U1UnuxJFCrI\/AAAAAAAACV0\/-cAli8Yj97U\/s1600\/NE2.jpg?resize=640%2C484\" width=\"640\" height=\"484\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">We visited &#8216;The Lure of the Litchfield Hills,&#8217;\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">a newly opened exhibit at the Litchfield museum on Colonial Revival.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Litchfield is often described as the quintessential New England town,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0and it was fascinating to learn more about the town\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">and the immaculate homes with white paint and black shutters.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">These are not a product of the colonial era, but a late 19th and early 20th century movement known as colonial revival.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">We also went to the Tapping Reeve House and Law School\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">America&#8217;s first law school.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Hats off to the Litchfield Historical Society for both these wonderful museums.<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-9UpksiuNioU\/U1Uv_XQw1uI\/AAAAAAAACWI\/U9HorByk52E\/s1600\/NE4.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-9UpksiuNioU\/U1Uv_XQw1uI\/AAAAAAAACWI\/U9HorByk52E\/s1600\/NE4.jpg?resize=640%2C136\" width=\"640\" height=\"136\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">The next day with the snow had gone, we called in at Woodstock,\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">the sleepy arty town close to where we were staying.\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Famous for in the 1969&#8217;s refusing a permit\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">for the Woodstock festival<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Which is why the festival ended up at Bethal Woods&#8230;<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Two of our children have ended up at Woodstock boarding school\u00a0<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">in the foothills of the Himalayas, India<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">and so I was gathering material for a future Woodstock blog<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Do you do this on holiday,<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Plan your days out around potential blog posts?!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white;\"><\/div>\n<table style=\"background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-l1mw96pFVO4\/U1Xm198CKBI\/AAAAAAAACWY\/2EI7NGgZEVg\/s1600\/NE5.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-l1mw96pFVO4\/U1Xm198CKBI\/AAAAAAAACWY\/2EI7NGgZEVg\/s1600\/NE5.jpg?resize=484%2C640\" width=\"484\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">Woodstock, NY famous for lending it&#8217;s name to the Woodstock festival<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">We then drove nearly 60 miles<br \/>\nto the site of the actual Woodstock festival at Bethal Woods<br \/>\nfor The Story of the 60&#8217;s museum.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>A chance conversation over lunch with a couple of employees<br \/>\nand a remark that this was the most expensive tourist attraction<br \/>\nwe&#8217;d been to, so it better be good,<br \/>\nled to a personal guided tour by Glenn<br \/>\nthat will be one of the highlights of our entire trip!<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<table style=\"background-color: white; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-DjiirLlMdiA\/U1Xp4kHQoYI\/AAAAAAAACWk\/vOiYGS_F8ho\/s1600\/NE6.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/3.bp.blogspot.com\/-DjiirLlMdiA\/U1Xp4kHQoYI\/AAAAAAAACWk\/vOiYGS_F8ho\/s1600\/NE6.jpg?resize=640%2C494\" width=\"640\" height=\"494\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">The multimedia permanent exhibit includes 20 films, 5 interactive productions, text panels and artifacts<br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\nGlenn was at the original festival as a food vendor,\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">although his job finished early after they ran out of food after a day and a half,<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">We loved hearing Glenn&#8217;s stories!<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">He brought the original festival to light\u00a0<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">and explained to us about the upcoming season of concerts.<\/span><br \/>\n<br style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: medium;\" \/><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Thanks Glenn &#8211; our visit turned out to be great value!<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YNtSBE8QVi8\/U1Xs96dX4ZI\/AAAAAAAACW0\/pdn6kXqRo-Y\/s1600\/NE7.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/1.bp.blogspot.com\/-YNtSBE8QVi8\/U1Xs96dX4ZI\/AAAAAAAACW0\/pdn6kXqRo-Y\/s1600\/NE7.jpg?resize=640%2C484\" width=\"640\" height=\"484\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<div style=\"background-color: white; font-family: Georgia, serif; font-size: 14px;\"><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"background-color: white;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">Downstairs we found a exhibit <strong style=\"border: none; color: #3d2b1d; line-height: 21px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;\">America Meets The Beatles!<\/strong><\/span><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"background-color: white; border: none; color: #3d2b1d; line-height: 1.6em; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: left; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif;\">A celebration of the 50th anniversary of The Beatles\u2019 arrival in the U.S. in 1964.<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; color: #3c3d47; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1.5714285714em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #3d2b1d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: left;\">I liked the above photos of the Beatles going by train to Washington,<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #3d2b1d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: left;\">as we\u00a0<\/span><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #3d2b1d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: left;\">were just rushing to catch the train to Washington ourselves!<\/span><\/div>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; color: #3c3d47; line-height: 22px; margin-bottom: 1.5714285714em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-align: center; vertical-align: baseline;\"><span style=\"background-color: white; color: #3d2b1d; font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; line-height: 1.6em; text-align: left;\">Unfortunately no-one told us that getting back to New York was going to be a nightmare trip, DH missed the train!<\/span><\/div>\n<table style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;\" cellspacing=\"0\" cellpadding=\"0\" align=\"center\">\n<tbody>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-LzXPQmAk8ZM\/U1XzRiKJ4UI\/AAAAAAAACXI\/C2NY5zw4aZY\/s1600\/NE9.jpg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-LzXPQmAk8ZM\/U1XzRiKJ4UI\/AAAAAAAACXI\/C2NY5zw4aZY\/s1600\/NE9.jpg?resize=640%2C640\" width=\"640\" height=\"640\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<tr>\n<td style=\"text-align: center;\">New York in the distance &#8211; from the car park waiting to get through the Lincoln tunnel<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">So that was New England, next stop Washington DC!<br \/>\nI hope you have enjoyed joining me on my if it&#8217;s Monday it must be New England, whistle stop tour of America<br \/>\nI hope you can join me again soon to find out what Washington was like!<\/span><\/p>\n<p>I love receiving your comments, so please leave a comment if you can.<br \/>\nFor those without Google+ I can be reached by e-mail,<br \/>\nfound on the side bar.<br \/>\nThank you for stopping by!<\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; 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font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Smiling Sally at <a href=\"http:\/\/smilingsally.blogspot.com.au\/\">Blue Monday<\/a><\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\">Thank you Sally<\/span><br \/>\n<span style=\"font-family: Verdana, sans-serif; font-size: small;\"><br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n<div style=\"clear: both; text-align: center;\"><a style=\"margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;\" href=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ASpjdAKo5iw\/U1X6EMY4J7I\/AAAAAAAACX0\/nsaGJZcbeUI\/s1600\/download.jpeg\" data-rel=\"penci-gallery-image-content\" ><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/4.bp.blogspot.com\/-ASpjdAKo5iw\/U1X6EMY4J7I\/AAAAAAAACX0\/nsaGJZcbeUI\/s1600\/download.jpeg?w=1170\" border=\"0\" \/><\/a><\/div>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n<div style=\"border: 0px; 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