Monday, June 15, 2009

Rooms for Tourists


The Historic New England (http://www.historicnewengland.org/) newsletter had an article about the family at Tucker Castle, in Wiscasset, taking in summer guests in order to make ends meet. By coincidence, I just found on eBay some Wiscasset photos, including one of our own house. Hard to see in the scanned image, but there is a sign attached to a tree pointing to a place of lodging that also accomodates auto parties, and I then noticed a sign attached to our house, "Tourists". So, in the economic down times apparently a number of people had to make do by opening their houses to visitors, and we now know another piece of our house's history.

You can see pictures of the house today at: http://www.forthillstudios.com/about.htm

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