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Scrimshaw replica of walrus tusk depicting The famous battle of John Paul Jones ["I have not yet begun to fight.", versus Lt. Pearson on the Serapis.

A few pictures from New England vacation.

Ken

Ken I would have loved to have hitched a ride with you on that trip. Love that area.

Here's some photos of a covered bridge near Frankfort, Ky. that my wife and I visited this week. It presents an optical illusion in that when viewed from one point it appears to be leaning to the right. When viewed from a different point it looks to be leaning to the left. Actually it's not leaning at all.

neat bridge. is that reciprocity failure of the camera? That is the reason for all the adjustments of view cameras.

All GREAT pics yinz are posting!! THANKS for sharing!! I DO love me some Lobster!!!! John

Scrimshaw, vacations, covered bridges, talent. Great page.

Phil, that bridge is similar to The Horton Hill covered bridge just Northeast of Oneonta, Alabama. It, too, leans both left and right.

It is closed to anything except foot traffic, now.

Charlie

Neat bridges.

Hey, there's some guys in Washington D.C that do that.

Love those old covered bridges. I've seen several in Pennsylvania and one in Nova Scotia, all picturesque.

Here's a couple pictures of another functional structure from by-gone days that is still in use today. This is the oldest lighthouse in Maine, the Portland Head Light in Port Elizabeth, ME., operational since 1791. It was covered in fog when we arrived, the fog staying just along the coast. We walked around the site and visited the museum located in the old keeper's house. As we were leaving the fog lifted for a few minutes, just long enough to take a few pictures. Then it was foggy again.

Ken

Saturdays joy build NOT a one man job anyone build one of these?any helpful tips?

garddogg56 wrote:Saturdays joy build NOT a one man job anyone build one of these?any helpful tips?

Yeah. Sucker someone else into doing it Tom Sawyer (or was that Huck Finn).

Ken I visited that same lighthouse in the fall of 2016. I've got pictures of it somewhere...…..I think. At least I did have.

Mumbleypeg wrote:Love those old covered bridges. I've seen several in Pennsylvania and one in Nova Scotia, all picturesque.

Here's a couple pictures of another functional structure from by-gone days that is still in use today. This is the oldest lighthouse in Maine, the Portland Head Light in Port Elizabeth, ME., operational since 1791. It was covered in fog when we arrived, the fog staying just along the coast. We walked around the site and visited the museum located in the old keeper's house. As we were leaving the fog lifted for a few minutes, just long enough to take a few pictures. Then it was foggy again.

Ken
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New England is the land of "wait 5 minutes and the weather will change" ... Believe me

Did you get your fill of "lobstah" Ken ??

LongBlade wrote:
Did you get your fill of "lobstah" Ken ??

Lee, I'm not a lobstah fan - I'll eat it, but it just tastes like soggy chicken to me (I do like the butter though). Besides, it seems to me the first guy that ate a lobster had to be really hungry!

I did tuck away my share of halibut and haddock. Baked, broiled, fried, on a sandwich or otherwise - it's all good. And I guess I can't really comment on the first guy to eat lobster, cuz I also put away a bunch of clams, mussels, and raw oystahs. We ate at some really good restaraunts. Legal Seafood in Boston, Minilli's in Portland, and Waterfront in Camden all were excellent. Legal Seafood had five different kinds of raw oysters - I tried them all (believe it or not they all had a slightly different taste), then got a dozen of the one I liked best.

Phil that lighthouse has a very interesting history. It was commissioned to be built in 1787 by George Washington but there was very little money available to fund the construction so it was built from "field rubble" and took 3 years to build it. Then they decided it was too short (some ships captains said they couldn't see it) so they raised it 20 feet higher.

Also interesting is that one night during a big storm the lighthouse keeper was struck by a huge wave as he was exiting the light, and nearly killed. Looking at the structure, it would have been about a 150 foot high wave!

Ken

Jerry it was Tom Sawyer. And his reward was getting his friend's Barlow knife. Barlow knives then soared in the U.S. for a while at least being the most popular pattern.

Mumbleypeg wrote:

LongBlade wrote:
Did you get your fill of "lobstah" Ken ??

Lee, I'm not a lobstah fan - I'll eat it, but it just tastes like soggy chicken to me (I do like the butter though). Besides, it seems to me the first guy that ate a lobster had to be really hungry!

I did tuck away my share of halibut and haddock. Baked, broiled, fried, on a sandwich or otherwise - it's all good. And I guess I can't really comment on the first guy to eat lobster, cuz I also put away a bunch of clams, mussels, and raw oystahs. We ate at some really good restaraunts. Legal Seafood in Boston, Minilli's in Portland, and Waterfront in Camden all were excellent.

Ken

Well not everybody is a lobstah lover - hard not to like the butter though (and chicken tastes like soggy lobster to me - I am honestly not a fan of chicken ) - and the truth is lobsters were bait for striper fishing about 100 or more years ago before somebody decided to eat them - honest ... Though we live in CT we run up to Maine on occasion as my wife grew up outside Portland (which has quite a few excellent restaurants now)... I would say cod and haddock are staples up here - I prefer haddock .. I ate at 2/3 restaurants you mentioned - if in fact that wasn't a typo on Minilli's - I know Dimillo's ? ...

I've had chowder & a big cold beer at one of the Legal Seafood locations in Boston - it was very good!

Legal Seafood is certainly well known landmark restaurant in Boston but lots of good restaurants in Boston ...

Mumbleypeg wrote:Love those old covered bridges. I've seen several in Pennsylvania and one in Nova Scotia, all picturesque.

Here's a couple pictures of another functional structure from by-gone days that is still in use today. This is the oldest lighthouse in Maine, the Portland Head Light in Port Elizabeth, ME., operational since 1791. It was covered in fog when we arrived, the fog staying just along the coast. We walked around the site and visited the museum located in the old keeper's house. As we were leaving the fog lifted for a few minutes, just long enough to take a few pictures. Then it was foggy again.

Ken
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Great pictures Mumbleypeg! Especially the one with the fog.

Great pictures!

Lobsters (subaquatic arachnids) were used for fertilizer at one time.

FRJ wrote:Great pictures!

Lobsters (subaquatic arachnids) were used for fertilizer at one time.

Yup. Food of the plebs.

LongBlade wrote:
Well not everybody is a lobstah lover - hard not to like the butter though (and chicken tastes like soggy lobster to me - I am honestly not a fan of chicken ) - and the truth is lobsters were bait for striper fishing.......... I ate at 2/3 restaurants you mentioned - if in fact that wasn't a typo on Minilli's - I know Dimillo's ? ...

I heard that in the old days lobstah was what they fed prisoners in jail, otherwise very few folks ate it. And it was indeed Dimillo's in Portland. Recommended by one of the locals. When you get my age you're doing good to remember what you ate, let alone where!

Ken

When we were in Massachusetts in 1997, we had Clam Chowder at Legal Seafood and also several smaller cafes in Newburyport. Never had a bad bowl.

Charlie Noyes

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