Today, we rode around town in Lynn's van. Lynn and her family live in Swampscott which is located in Essex County in Massachusetts. It was settled in 1629 and incorporate in 1852. Today, it is a fairly affluent residential community as reported on line. On line research also informed me that Revere Beach which lies just several miles down the road has the honor of technically being America's first public beach. Swampscott was the de facto first resort town. We saw a very old house, the "Sir John Humphrey House". The house was 376 years old and built in 1637. We also saw the house of Mary Baker Eddy. She was the founder of Christian Science.
Lynn also took us to Abott Hall in Marblehead, Massachusetts. Marblehead is the birthplace of the Navy. Abott Hall is the home of the picture, "The Spirit of 76" by an artist named A. M. Willard in 1876.
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