Our destination for today was Strawbery Banke Museum, a ten acre site of open-air history. Houses from a period of 300 years have been brought together to provide a living history of New Hampshire. We began with the Goodwin Mansion and continued around the estate looking at many houses that were 'dressed' in various periods, from colonial times to WWII. The guides were also in costume in keeping with the time their houses represented, whether they were the wife cooking lunch for her husband coming in from the fields or the store keeper who had heard there was a war going on in Europe. In each house there was something that gave the visitor a clue to the period represented, most often a calendar on the wall with the appropriate date on display.
We had a break halfway through for lunch at a café overlooking the inlet and watched a party of seugeway users negotiate the bridge - and come back again! Then we back again to complete our tour around SB. It was great and a wonderful place to bring school children, with history literally coming alive for them.
This evening we ate down at Center Harbor at Lavinia's and had a delicious dinner with our friends.
Strawbery Banke Museum
Lavinia's
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