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Author Archives: Ray Boas
ICE HARVESTING DAY – 21 JANUARY 2018
I had so much fun today — and I have been looking forward to this day since August 20th – six months ago. You can read my post about my finally getting to Muster Field Farm that day – but … Continue reading
YEAR END HOLIDAY HURRAHS – 28 and 30 DECEMBER 2017
PRELIMINARY NOTE – Most important event of the year at the end of this post. I had been pining to see The Red Lion Inn decked out in its Christmas fashions, but following a busy and packed month, as time … Continue reading
CHRISTMAS BY CANDLELIGHT – OLD STURBRIDGE VILLAGE – 2017
In October I visited Old Sturbridge Village (OSV) for the first time in nine years, and it had been decades before for my previous visits. I spent the whole day there – loved it – and purchased my membership when … Continue reading
SANTA’S LAND, PUTNEY, VERMONT – RIBBON CUTTING CEREMONY 16 DECEMBER 2017
SANTA’S LAND USA – 2020 Covid Hours and Details Open Every Sat. & Sun until the last weekend before Christmas! 10:00am – 4:00pm As usual, masks and social distancing is required at all times. The new VT regulations are for … Continue reading
Posted in Santa's Land
Tagged Putney, Roadside Americana, Santa Claus, Santa's Land, US Route 5, Vermont, VT
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HOLIDAY EXPLORATIONS – GETTING YOU IN THE MOOD – 6 and 9 DECEMBER 2017
I may have shared I considered mid-December Road Scholar Christmas programs at the Biltmore, and another in Williamsburg. For various reasons I decided not to go, holding those areas for adventures in late spring instead. But, I wanted to … Continue reading
Posted in Miscellaneous Musings, Thanksgiving and Christmas
Tagged Manchester, Vermont, VT
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FLICKERING FLAMES OF A HOPELESS ROMANTIC – 3 DECEMBER 2017
Many “forces” drive me to combine and share words. Earlier this week I reread an article “Remembering the Good old Days of Collecting Antiques,” and on the 2nd in Plymouth Notch, Vermont, I bought yet another candle holder, this of handcrafted … Continue reading
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SANTA’S LAND – PUTNEY, VERMONT – REOPENED NOVEMBER 25, 2017
SANTA’S LAND USA – 2020 Covid Hours and Details Open Every Sat. & Sun until the last weekend before Christmas! 10:00am – 4:00pm As usual, masks and social distancing is required at all times. The new VT regulations are for … Continue reading
PORTSMOUTH (NH) HOLIDAY PREPARATIONS – 19-20 NOVEMBER 2017
This post is to help you “get in the spirit” – it did for me. Without having a December theatrical production to worry about, for the first time in nine years I have been able to review and decide on … Continue reading
Posted in Day (or maybe two) Trips, Thanksgiving and Christmas
Tagged NH, Portsmouth, Strawbery Banke
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VISITING 1838, AND HOW IT CAME TO BE – 10-12 October 2017
My adventures do come about via circuitous routes. Last September I attended a Road Scholar program learning about “everything Dutch in the Hudson Valley.” When at Washington Irving’s Sunnyside I became entranced with The Legend of Sleepy Hollow thinking I … Continue reading
QUABBIN – 40% of MASSACHUSETT’S WATER – 17 SEPTEMBER 2017
Did you notice? It has taken me more than two weeks to get to writing and posting this fascinating 12 hour adventure that I highly recommend. The day before my Quabbin (The Meeting of Many Waters) visit I got to … Continue reading
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Tagged Belchertown, MA, Mass., Massachusetts, Memorial Hall Museum in Old Deerfield, New Salem, Quabbin Park Cemetery, Quabbin Reservoir, Quabbin Tower, QUABBIN: THE ACCIDENTAL WILDERNESS, The Swift River Valley Historical Society, WATER FOR GOTHAM, Whately Inn
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Shunpiking with Ray 