We are wrapping up our racation (race+vacation=racation) in Maine today. \u00a0We will leave tomorrow for a return to Boston to drop our daughter off at Logan airport. \u00a0We have had the best of the best possible time it is possibly possible to have!!!<\/p>\n
Today, we visited a Civil War Museum in Bethel, Maine.<\/p>\n
When you think of the Civil War, do you think of Maine? \u00a0Me neither. \u00a0But they had 9,000 soldiers. \u00a0180 from the town of Bethel out of which 52 returned.<\/p>\n
The exhibit at the museum was centered around this two men one of which was a Major Gideon Hastings. \u00a0They had the bullet on display that he received at Antietam. \u00a0He did not have the bullet removed until twenty years after the end of the war. \u00a0It was a large bullet and I think having that in you for twenty years would have been uncomfortable.<\/p>\n
They also had a quilt on display that showed the history of Bethel, Maine in regards to the Civil War. \u00a0It was a very nice quilt! \u00a0I took a few pics of that for my sister because she quilts. \u00a0They also had the instructions for the quilt so you could make your own! \u00a0Cool Beans! \u00a0AND the instructions were at no charge!!! \u00a0Even more Cool Beans and Chilled :Legumes!!! \u00a0So, I picked up the instructions for my sister, too.<\/p>\n
We ended up walking around the downtown area of Bethel, Maine. \u00a0We are here in between tourist seasons~the end of summer and before skiing so not a lot of shops were open. \u00a0That was probably a good thing for our plastic money \u00a0 \u00a0 \u00a0\ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
Just a few more days and we will be back home in Mississippi. \u00a0I think I am about ready to go home. \u00a0It is starting to be chilly in the mornings and it might (horrors!!!) SNOW! \u00a0That would not do! \u00a0So, I think I am ready to go back south.<\/p>\n
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