After a leisurely start capped by a fine Saturday brunch,
Richard and Barbara gave us an historic tour of Nashua that finished with a
nice downtown shopping excursion.
We began with the old houses of Nashua. I do not have any
images here, since we decided not to photograph peoples’ homes, but what we saw
is what you would expect of a prosperous 19th century New England
mill town. We were here once briefly a decade ago, but it has been nice to be
able to get a sense of the place where our friends live. Theirs is an 1847 home
built for a prosperous city leader which has gone through one move and a number
of families in its long history.
From there we went to the largest mill, now adaptively
reused for housing, and then to Main Street, the commercial face the city
presented (and still presents) to the world. After Richard and I played with
images, we joined Sharon and Barbara in a couple of local crafts shops located
side by side, Twill and The League of New Hampshire Craftsman. Sharon came close
to getting the perfect yarn for her next project at Twill, and next door she
did acquire a pair of glass cardinals for her emerging bird collection and I
got a nice new hand crafted mug. Richard waited patiently until I selected my
mug to snap up the one I considered and did not take. Barbara rounded out our shopping
excursion with a nice pin cushion in the form of a Shaker box. It was a fine
day.
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| The Old Mill, now housing |
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| The old powerhouse, soon to pass into memories |
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| Main Street |
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| Barbara and Sharon |
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| The old Nashua Telegraph, a fine example of adaptive reuse |
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| See bottom left |
Oh, and Richard and I moved some firewood.
And for our labor, we got to eat dinner at MT’S Local. Wow!
This is the real deal, new American cuisine at its best. No tricks, no
gimmicks. Fresh, wholesome local food prepared with skill and care and a fine
sensibility. From the fresh bread to the housemade biscotti everything is what
it should be and just a bit more. If you are within 100 miles of Nashua you owe
it to yourself to come here.
Sunday afternoon it's on to Northampton and a Tuesday visit with Abigail Weeks, Pelikan technician extraordinaire.
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