is a very historic area in Portsmouth, NH. It's a large collection of
buildings which together form a sort of open-air museum.
One can visit the buildings themselves,
including a real museum, but the area itself presents a village as one would have
seen it in Colonial times.
We were there as the
,
mostly for ceremonial reasons. The organizers wished for us to take part in a parade and
a ceremony to lay wreaths
in the old cemetery by the Naval base (the oldest working Naval base in the US).
Only three of us were there: me, Sgt. Paul Stevens, and Pvt. Ed Gagnon.
Here's a picture of me, with some of the old buildings in the background.
This is a picture of me and the Sarge.
This is a picture of the three of us, left to right: Sgt. Paul Stevens, Pvt. Chauncey Goodrich,
and Pvt. Ed Gagnon.
This picture shows of some of the ladies in the camp (a very small camp, as
few people were there) with more of the historic buildings in the
background.
