Today ( 7- 27-08) we took a little road trip to Lowell, MA and spent the day in the downtown area where they were having the Lowell Folk Festival, which is the largest folk festival in the USA.
Lowell has an interesting history as it was founded around 1802 by private investors and was initially designed as an industrial city that was built to spin cotton goods for the north. A planned community in the 1800's. Imagine that! Bet they didn't have HOA fees then though. :)
The streets in the entire downtown area are still paved with the original brick pavers that were installed when the city was built. Kinda cool. The folk festival itself is a world-wide draw for musicians from all over the world and you can see & hear music from every country. Quite an impressive event! Click on the slide show below for larger pictures.
This Friday Kathy and I will be leaving Exeter, NH for a couple of weeks and staying in Salisbury, MA. From there we'll explore Plymouth and the Cape Cod area. We'll return to Exeter for a week or two and then head west towards South Dakota... AFTER bike week cause I ain't got my baby no more. Boo Hoo!
Lowell has an interesting history as it was founded around 1802 by private investors and was initially designed as an industrial city that was built to spin cotton goods for the north. A planned community in the 1800's. Imagine that! Bet they didn't have HOA fees then though. :)
The streets in the entire downtown area are still paved with the original brick pavers that were installed when the city was built. Kinda cool. The folk festival itself is a world-wide draw for musicians from all over the world and you can see & hear music from every country. Quite an impressive event! Click on the slide show below for larger pictures.
This Friday Kathy and I will be leaving Exeter, NH for a couple of weeks and staying in Salisbury, MA. From there we'll explore Plymouth and the Cape Cod area. We'll return to Exeter for a week or two and then head west towards South Dakota... AFTER bike week cause I ain't got my baby no more. Boo Hoo!
We're just getting anxious to get back on the road! We LOVED staying in a nice apartment in Exeter for a month, but find ourselves missing our RV ( our home!) and also find ourselves wanting to get bck to traveling some more! Yeah, I know - it surprised us too!
