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North America » United States » Massachusetts » Brookline August 19th 2016

Geo: 42.3335, -71.1205We slept pretty good. We did stay up til nearly midnight to watch the Olympics. It was good to see some Track and Field and Water Polo.After breakfast, I decided to go ahead and do 2 loads of wash at the Hotel. I figure our plans might change and we had time, since we were not planning to leave the hotel until around 10:30am. Good thing we did the 2 loads of wash. Glad I got that out of the way.There was a letterbox just .5 miles from the hotel, so we stopped at the Cemetery and found the Letter box. This Cemetery had grave sites from the 1700's. This particular cemetery in Merrimack, NH, has the burial site for Matthew Thornton, who was one of the signer of the Declaration of Independence. He ... read more
Matthew Thornton Cemetery
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North America » United States » Massachusetts » Brookline August 10th 2016

Geo: 42.3335, -71.1205Editor's NOTE: Normally Glenn proof-read's my blog and does some major editing, however I am not asking him to do this for me, since he needs a break. So bear with me if there are misspelled words and the grammar is incorrect. Thanks for reading. Also, I've changed the format for the most recent entry to be on top.It rained on us the whole time driving down from Vermont, to DL Moody's birthplace and burial in Northfield, MA and then on into Boston.We scheduled to have lunch with Eric G. at Friendly's, a local New England ice cream and hamburger restaurant.We met Eric when I served on the Moody Alumni Board, as Eric was a student at Moody from 2006-2009. He worked in the computer area, updating and implementing web-site stuff too.Eric told us ... read more




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