10/4/2011

Today is the day Jim proposed to me on the Eiffel Tower in Paris 10 years ago! Jim researched the area and found out that Bowdoin College in Brunswick has a really good art museum. We drove there and looked through it. They had an exhibit of Edward Hopper paintings of the Maine coast. Also on campus was a building that had an Inuit indian exhibit. We went into the chapel on campus and it was beautiful. It was built in 1844. There were very gorgeous murals painted on the walls inside. This college is prestigious and expensive. Former students include Admiral Peary who went to the North Pole, President Franklin Pierce, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, Nathaniel Hawthorn, and Senator George Mitchell.

We left the campus and went to the Maine Maritime Museum in Bath. This museum was a former ship building yard. They built wooden ships. They last one was built in 1919. The largest wooden ship ever made in the U.S., the six masted schooner Wyoming, was built here in 1909. They still make wooken boats here and sell them to the public. Next door to the Maritime Museum is Bath Iron Works which builds ships for the U.S. Navy.

After leaving here we went to a lighthouse not far away. It was the Doubling Point Lighthouse built in 1898 on the Kennebec River. Then we drove down the peninsula to the end of the road and turned around. At the end we could see across the river to Fort Baldwin that was built out of granite in 1861 to protect to river during the Civil War. We returned to the Casita and I fixed dinner and we updated the blog.
It rained all day.