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Shakespeare's Globe Theater

This is a fabulous place.  Put it on your "bucket list."  We saw Shakespeare's Midsummer Night's Dream yesterday afternoon and it was one of the most delightful entertaining three hours spent in a very, very, very long time.

This is also a great mini-documentary about the Globe Theatre at https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b9uDK3xsLYk

Check it out!!!

Charles W. Morgan Sets Sail From New London on Historic Voyage

By EDMUND H. MAHONY, emahony@courant.comThe Hartford Courant
4:19 p.m. EDT, June 15, 2014

NEW LONDON – There was a flurry of activity on the harbor Sunday morning, the likes of which has not been seen or heard for a century along this working waterfront.The 173-year old whaleship Charles W. Morgan, remarkably resurrected, left City Pier, turned down the Thames River and headed out to sea. 

With the sun rising, she slipped past a city whose architecture is little changed since it was built with whale oil fortunes made by ships just like Morgan. . . READ MORE

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Charles W. Morgan Lives On!!!

famed whaler will float again after $7 million restoration - Providence Journal (7/20/13) by Staff Writer John Hill -

STONINGTON CT - At about 2 p.m. Sunday, on the 172nd anniversary of its launching, the Charles W. Morgan will get to be a ship again.

From November 2008 until late last month, the wooden whaler had sat on land, supported by metal braces and wrapped in plastic like some yacht in a South County boatyard. Over those months, shipwrights, carpenters and blacksmiths took it apart and put it back together again.

On June 26, the ship got to dip its proverbial toe in the Mystic River, lowered a few feet into the water, but still locked in an underwater cradle held up by an array of winches. During that soak, the new planks in its hull have been absorbing the salty water, so that they will swell together and create a waterproof seal.

On Sunday afternoon, when the winches let the cradle fall to the bottom of the river and the Morgan floats free, it will be a major turning point in the Mystic Seaport Foundation’s $7-million restoration of the world’s last remaining wooden whaler.

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Hallowed Ground

This week is the 150th anniversary of the Battle of Gettysburg.

Robert E. Lee's 90,000 man Confederate Army of Northern Virginia had marched far into Union terriority for supplies and break the spirit of the North in anticipation of the the 1864 Presidential Election. The 70,000 man North's Army of the Potomac marched north in pursuit making sure that it stayed between Lee's army and Washington D.C. 

These armies collided in Gettysburg and fought fiercely in the Pennsylvania summer heat for three days, July 1 - July 3, 1863, before Lee called it quits and retreated back to Virginia. Between 46,000 - 51,000 men were killed, wounded or missing in those three days. Most people believe the Battle of Gettysburg was the turning point in the Civil War.

Shack Showdown - A New England Challenge

When in Kansas City, you eat barbecue; when in Boston, you eat clams and lobster the local way.  The Boston Globe recently conducted a March Madness style competition to determine the popular clam and lobster shack in the Boston region.  There were over 23,000 votes.  Check it out if you are ever going to be here and want real atmosphere and great local cuisine.

http://www.boston.com/travel/explorene/specials/summer/special/clam_shack_bracket/

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