American Revolution Museum

Nole:

While Jessica tended the laundry I took the kids over to a small museum celebrating American independence.

Here we are with one of only 26 remaining first copies of the Declaration of Independence. About 200 were originally printed.

The house was built in the 1700s and served as the governor’s mansion while Exeter was the capital of New Hampshire during the revolutionary war.
Scavenger hunts for the kids. They were all very well behaved during the guided tour.
The museum provided a guided tour. Our guide was very helpful at explaining the many objects significance in the fight for independence.
The spiky dark object in this display case was used by the colonists to process flax plants for spinning into linen.
To defy British taxes on textiles, the colonists made their own linen and clothing.
General Washington was an early member of the council of Cincinnati. We learned about Roman Cincinnatus whose story about gaining power during a time of crisis and then returning that power was inspirational to many early revolutionary officers.
This is one of only three purple hearts awarded by general George Washington.
Here we learned about one of the main causes of the revolutionary war, taxation without representation

After the museum we went across the street for ice cream.

Jessica:

While they were on their adventure I did laundry. Definitely not as exciting but I did get to look around Exeter for a while. Our hosts told us Exeter was once the capital of New Hampshire. It also has a prestigious boarding school where the Lincoln’s son, “Gopher” from Love Boat, and Mark Zuckerberg went! The town had a quaint feel to it and it didn’t end at the laundromat.

The machines in the laundromat were ancient. Worked great though! I did 6 loads of laundry because I washed some bedding too.

There was a variety shop which was actually more like a convenience store but it had some cool billboards around it and had counter-service inside.

After I finished the laundry I picked the others up at the ice cream shop and we went back to the host site to have lunch. It was almost 90 degrees today so after lunch we didn’t waste much time getting the camper hooked up and on the road to Boston because we wanted to be in the air conditioning ASAP!

After going back and forth on which way to get through Boston, we went straight through the middle. We stopped for groceries and then got settled in at Wompatuck State Park. It’s still pretty hot here with only a low of 71 expected overnight. We have electric here though so the air conditioner is running and keeping us cool.

An Eaton powerhouse!

It’s my turn to choose the movie for movie night and I picked Follow That Bird, one of my favorites!

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