The day started with a tour of the Victoria Mansion in Portland. It was finished in 1860 and was the summer home of Ruggles Sylvester Morse, a very wealthy hotelier in New Orleans. They claimed that 92% of the furnishings were original. They are undergoing a lengthy and expensive renovation. The non-renovated parts are in very good shape, but after 167 years a little maintenance is in order. I found it worth the stop. There were a bunch of docents available to talk with. That is a good thing. You get a lot more than just reading the descriptions.

After that tour we headed down the road to Kennebunkport. The town itself is really a very expensive tourist trap. We walked around for a bit and didn't find anything of interest. I thought about getting a nice lobster roll, but the prices were out of this world.

One the way to Kennebunkport we stopped at the Seashore Trolley Museum which turned out to be a real gem. We had a nice long ride on a trolley car. They had lots of rolling stock sitting around rusting. They also had a restoration facility and a large number of restored and working trolleys on display. The hit of the day, however, is the subject of today's photo. There was a little display of various trolley artifacts. This particular one was a manually operated side roll box from an MBTA trackless trolley in the Boston area. What is interesting to me is that it is showing the 71 bus that goes down Mt. Auburn Street through Watertown to Harvard Square. This was the bus I rode every morning and evening for a couple years going to MIT from my apartment in Watertown. How cool is that??