How We Spent Our Memorial Day....

 ..... or at least part of it....

                   Historic Poole Forge

 

We were able to tour the mansion... below are a few pictures of the inside....

First floor parlor

Second floor bedroom

Third floor attic.....had to get a picture of the crib!

Out the attic window

These next two are of the flower bed & planter decorations...

 

The celebration was not just for Memorial Day, it was also to celebrate
Churchtown's 150th anniversary. They have the oldest running Memorial Day
parade, records show it has been going on since 1866! They had Civil War
reactors, various Jeeps & trucks from the World Wars (sorry, no pictures)&
people walking around in period costumes. (You can see two people sitting on
the porch in the second picture above.) The main reason I wanted to go was
for this....

A string quartet playing on the porch! It was beautiful! Everywhere you walked you
could hear them!

Even though it was just the three of us, we had a great hour or so walking around
looking at everything & listening to the music! Unfortunately, we couldn't stay for
the parade....we had to be in Hanover by 3.