Day at Wingaersheek beach

[jeregenest]

Today we went to Wingaersheek beach, in Gloucester, part of my gal to actually do something in the North Shre this summer. And personally the North Shore is dull. Great beaches but beyond the beaches its just too boring. So I'll stick to the beaches.

The starchild was all sand all the time agan. And the boy actually spent a lot of time in the water.

peaseblossom and I want to get a crowd together and do a beach soon. Not next weekend because we're planning on doing Shakespeare in the Commons on Saturday. But maybe the weekend after.

Tonight no plans. I'm feeling social but its probably to late to get anyone to come over and entertain me.

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[smoagendash.livejournal.com]

And personally the North Shore is dull. Great beaches but beyond the beaches its just too boring.

What?!? What about Hammond Castle? Norman's Woe? What about Dogtown?

And then there's Salem, which, ok, IS a schlocky tourist trap, but deep within the labyrinth of tourist traps there are some genuinely neat places: The Peabody Museum, The Nation's Oldest Candy Store, The House of Seven Gables, and (to completely terrify the Boy) the Salem Witch Museum. Nothing quite like standing in a dark room around a glowing pentagram set into the floor with the glowing red eyes of SATAN glaring down at you from the shadows above you. Booga, booga, booga!!

Of course it HAS been 30 years since I was last there... I wonder if they changed anything aside from the product mix in the gift store. Probably not.

[jeregenest.livejournal.com]

Hammond's castle was nice but I don't think I'd do it again. At least not in summer, might be nicer in the fall. And the ren faire there was a bad idea.

Whats Norman's Woe or Dogtown?

Salem always makes me feel dirty.

[smoagendash.livejournal.com]

Whats Norman's Woe or Dogtown?

Salem always makes me feel dirty.


Norman's Woe is a reef near Hammond Castle, made famous by Longfellow's poem, "The Wreck of the Hesperus":

Such was the wreck of the Hesperus,
In the midnight and the snow!
Christ save us all from a death like this,
On the reef of Norman's Woe!

Dogtown is the hilly central part of the Cape Ann peninsula, where early Gloucesterians moved their village to escape the ravages of pirates in the 1600's. Once the pirate threat died, they moved back, and wild dogs roamed the abandoned village. Then during the Great Depression, a local worthy provided work for unemployeed stone masons by hiring them to carve proverbs into the glacial boulders scattered through the area. Neat!

As for Salem, I still insist that there is still enough quality there to make it worth the trip. You feel dirty only if you roll in the mud.