A little bit homesick. For the first 40+ years of our lives, DW and I lived in New England. Everywhere in New England at one time or another, though we both originated in Pawtucket, RI. (as kids... beginning age 7 or 8, we were good friends, but it wasn't until highschool that we had our first "date").
Everywhere means from Fort Kent, to Martha's Vineyard, to New Haven, Falmouth, Greenfield, Laconia, St. Albans, Boston (DW's Sargent College), Brunswick, (my college), Ayer, Newport, and my folks last home, in Barrington.
In_control posted a recent photo of Colt Drive in Bristol, RI and it triggered wonderful memories of sailing in Narragansett Bay. When my mom passed away, in 1995, it was the end of an era. Our smallish family had mostly moved away, and there were no 'homesteads" to return to when BIL died around the same time, so we never went back.
... and yet, in that fuzzy afterglow of memory... a different era... a different world... so! NOW... it's time to dig into those boxes of pictures that go back to the 1800's and to do a 'reminisce'... Maybe I'll find that picture of me and my three cousins, age about 5 to 7...sitting on a curb in Providence, on our way to Ocean Grove Beach... watching a dirigible flying overhead... on its' way to the Newport Naval Air Station (Quonset)... circa 1942, 1943.
But I digress... What I really wanted to ask is: Is anyone here from New England? Failing that, any contemporary observations or memories that you can share?
Has anyone considered New England as a retirement destination?
Everywhere means from Fort Kent, to Martha's Vineyard, to New Haven, Falmouth, Greenfield, Laconia, St. Albans, Boston (DW's Sargent College), Brunswick, (my college), Ayer, Newport, and my folks last home, in Barrington.
In_control posted a recent photo of Colt Drive in Bristol, RI and it triggered wonderful memories of sailing in Narragansett Bay. When my mom passed away, in 1995, it was the end of an era. Our smallish family had mostly moved away, and there were no 'homesteads" to return to when BIL died around the same time, so we never went back.
... and yet, in that fuzzy afterglow of memory... a different era... a different world... so! NOW... it's time to dig into those boxes of pictures that go back to the 1800's and to do a 'reminisce'... Maybe I'll find that picture of me and my three cousins, age about 5 to 7...sitting on a curb in Providence, on our way to Ocean Grove Beach... watching a dirigible flying overhead... on its' way to the Newport Naval Air Station (Quonset)... circa 1942, 1943.
But I digress... What I really wanted to ask is: Is anyone here from New England? Failing that, any contemporary observations or memories that you can share?
Has anyone considered New England as a retirement destination?
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