After picking us up from the airport, we headed to Keene, NH and settled into our airbnb in the middle of town. It’s an old house, which is both great (old wooden floors and lots of charm walking distance to town) and kind of annoying (poor lighting, oddly shaped bathrooms and way not enough plugs). We had dinner at home – with a first stop at the local ice cream place. I’ve tried pretty hard to not eat too much ice cream and cheese while I’m at home, but when I’m on vacation, it’s all ice cream and cheese. Yum.
I’ve been sidelined from exercising regularly this summer with all my poison ivy drama, but I went for a jog/run on this lovely trail straight from the house and the trail was wide enough so I did not have to touch any plants.
On Monday, we went to Dublin, NH where Katherine and Bob were married and went to the town archives (!) and talked to the archivists (!). We found Bob and Katherine’s wedding certificate and Katherine left her book that she wrote about her family with them.
The archivist kindly opened the old one-room schoolhouse where they were setting up an exhibit. This is a bust of Doris Foote, a relative of Katherine’s.
They also had this old bench from a house in town with famous visitors’ signatures carved into the wood including Mark Twain and Amelia Earhart!
We drove by the house where Bob and Katherine were married.
On Tuesday, we drove to the house owned by Katherine’s grandmother and Katherine spent summers in this house with no bathrooms or electricity. It was sold by Katherine’s family to the parents of the current owner. The current owner was out of town, but told us to come and how to get into the house.
The dogs loved running freely from the property which was about a mile off the main road. Elka, especially, loved playing in the woods and high grass.
