We said farewell to the Ash Street Inn and set the GPS to find Saint-Gaudens. This is way across the state near the Vermont border by the town of Cornish. I have to admit I had never heard of Augustus Saint-Gaudens until a friend recommended that we should try and visit his place which is now a National Historic Site. He was apprenticed to learn the art of making cameos and went on to design three coins for the US Mint. In between he made sculptures and bas-relief including one that we saw in Boston a few days ago - The Shaw Memorial, 1900. He made several other memorials, copies of which we found around the estate. We arrived and booked our tour, only to find we were the only ones there. Our young guide was very informative and we loved Saint-Gaudens work, his house and the studios that we were shown around.
After we had finished our tour, it was a longish drive to North Sandwich where we are staying with friends for the next few days. On the way we stopped to see the Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge, apparently the longest wooden covered bridge in the United States and the longest two-span covered bridge in the world. (I seem to have heard this all before??)
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Cornish-Windsor Covered Bridge
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