2025 - July 13 - House of Seven Gables and Nathaniel Hawthorne's Birthplace

 

Took a tour of the House of Seven Gables in Salem, MA

Cent store as portrayed in the book

The bell above the door mentioned in the book

The secret stairs

Another secret door

Various additions and subtractions

Fire water buckets

Love these kinds of beds!

Nathaniel Hawthorne's birthplace

This was actually moved a few blocks from the original location

but the same building

Then we went to Louisa May Alcott's Orchard House

No photos inside. 

The philosophy (?) school her father started

Then we went to "Author's Ridge" where

the authors are buried with their families

Alcott, Hawthorne, Thoreau, Emerson...

The razor blade on the right had some kind of meaning

for the death of that person, apparently he

was shaving, cut himself and died from an infection. 

How awful is that?!

Then this happened, actually not this

or this, but the alternator went out. 

God's Hand can be found in all things.

This "interesting" motel (yes motel) had ONE

room left and it was the one they had just renovated

so... like new. They were helpful and kind

Sadly we know people in these situations

and these types of abusers

so I put these things out there so people

who are narcissistic can change their awful ways.