Salem, Mass. (7/11-12/2012)

(July 11th and 12th)   We are in Salem, Mass. and the sunset was really pretty. There is really so much history in Salem beyond the witch trials.              

We took a tour of the birth home of Nathanial Hawthorne. He was the author of the Scarlet Letter and The House of the Seven Gables. He used to visit his cousin that lived in a house with seven gables. It gave him the inspiration to write the book. Wonder what inspired him to write The Scarlet Letter.  It was really neat to see how the "well-to-do" lived.

This is a picture of the Salem Witchs house. It is

incredibly awful what happened to those poor 

people back then. 

And of course, who could pass up going aboard a "Tall Ship". This is a replica of a vessel called "Friendship" that sailed from Salem and was captured by the British during the war.