Such a small state to be so heavy laden with sights! We're skipping Boston because we've been there before, and there are more interesting things for the kids to see outside the city. Namely, Friend and her kids in Fitchburg!
Before getting to their house for a
meatball dinner with her delicious homemade sauce, we made a few toilet stops for Little Man. (He's on the mend by the way.) We found ourselves in an Amesbury bakery loaded with goodies like Whoopie Pie and Fluffernutters. Suddenly a woman stopped and asked if we'd been to Vermont recently because she worked at Shelburne Farms and thought she recognized the kids. Can you believe that? This world keeps shrinking, I tell you.
Our next town was Lowell. We wanted to check out the New England Quilt Museum, which had a NYC exhibit going on. It was called Metrotexturals. I'm not kidding! I could barely keep a straight face thinking about it as I walked around the impressive quilts. A one-page scavenger hunt was set up for the kids -- such a fantastic learning tool for them. After they could identify a yo-yo quilt, had found the stitched words "made in 1853", spied a lyre and an iron gate among other things, they were rewarded with a bag of fabric scraps. I had to wonder if all kids would have been as thrilled as they were about their prize!
We quickly discovered a lot of small museums in Lowell's historic district. The most unique was the Revolving Museum, a small space with super funky art, like a car turned instrument! Grandma wanted to go in the Whistler Museum and it was actually the house he was born in, rather than a gallery of his own works (there were some of his etchings).
Still, the house alone was worth the visit, if you're interested in old houses like we are. Peanut and Little Man were fascinated with the original copper bathtub, for example. There were also many other noteworthy paintings on the walls as well as the only to-scale copy of Whistler's most famous painting "Portrait of the Painter's Mother."
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