Trip to Rhode Island, Connecticut, and Vermont

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Entry gate, "The Breakers", Newport RI, summer cottage of the Vanderbilts	date of completion over entry, 1895	Detail of The Breakers exterior	architectural detail over entrance
"back yard view" from 2nd floor terrace	Ken, photographing side of The Breakers	This is the photo he was taking	Ken in The Breakers "back yard" - nuns in white on 2nd floor terrace
Back of The Breakers	Gull on the lawn	Side view, by Nancy	Side view, by Ken
Base of tree (guess who took this one)	View of garden entrance from carriage house terrace, "The Elms" house	Other side of fountain, and view of terrace behind the carriage house, The Elms	Sunken garden, "The Elms"
Fountain in the garden	Garden	Curious fountain; lactating woman????	BIG tree, back yard of The Elms (and it isn't an elm)
statuary atop The Elms	wooden sailing ship in Newport Harbor	Island house in Newport Harbor	Lighthouse
Auchincloss house, where Jackie & JFK got married	playhouse next door	Harbor view	Kites in the park, Newport
Alligator kite	Kites in the air	Dog kite	Guitar kite
Twirling kites	Ummm.....slug kite??	Looping kite	Mystic Seaport, Connecticut
Sign-carver's shop, with Ken	Carving a sign	The Morgan, last remaining wooden whaler	The port, from The Morgan
Harpoon boat demonstration	Deck and rigging	below deck, where the oil was stored	Below deck of The Morgan
Hoisting Sails	Rigging	replica of The Armistadt	Submarine Museum, Groton, Conn.
Submarine history on display	The Nautilus	Conning tower, The Nautilus	where the torpedos were stored
viewing through the periscope	navigation station	P7160446.JPG	Ken leaping through a "door" while the little girl waits her turn
Topside, The Nautilus	Seagull by the ferry across the Connecticut River	Nancy on Ferry to Gillette Castle	Gillette Castle, built in 1890s by eccentric actor
Castle on the bluff	close-up view	window	"cat toy" table..wooden things dangled so that his cats could play with them
balcony above the great room	one of many doors, all different	light fixture	view of great room (and cat table) from balcony
River view, down the Connecticut	View across to the ferry landing	Back of castle, with arbor and conservatory	Side of arbor and conservatory
Side view, from park	windows	Mark Twain's house in Hartford. He had this built, and lived here for 17 years	Side entrance; his study is at top left
Looking back across the veranda to the carriage house, from the front door.	Exterior, Mark Twain's office where he wrote his most famous books	Harriet Beecher Stowe's house at left, then Twain's carriage house. They were neighbors.	What could be More VERMONT? a covered bridge, Grafton
Side view, Grafton's covered bridge	Garden view from our deck at the B&B, Weston	From our deck. Main road through Weston at right.	One of many orchids grown by B&B owner
Another beautiful orchid from the greenhouse	Fort Ticonderoga! Fife and drummers drilling	Fort Ticonderoga; entering barracks	Cannon demonstration
Firing a cannon into Lake Champlain	Ken amid the cannons	View of Lake Champlain where it enters Lake George	Three flags flew over Ft. Ticonderoga
window	Barracks building	Barracks at left, administration building at right	Drummers practicing; hi-tech paperweights on music
cannon at Ft. Ticonderoga	Quechee Gorge, VT from bridge	Quechee Gorge, "Vermont's Grand Canyon" (170 feet deep!)	View of rapids, as we hiked down the gorge
Ferns near the river	View of bridge from the river	Quechee Gorge	rocks and rills
Rock, rills and bubbles	holding up the Quechee Gorge bridge

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