afternoon adventure
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Afternoon Adventure: Newport, RI
I love Newport. It’s one of my favorite things about living in Rhode Island: drive 45 minutes and you’re in the middle of a gorgeous port city, filled with historic houses and fun restaurants and bracing sea air. When my sister… Continue reading
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Plain Encounter
Last year, my parents bought 40 acres of forested land in Hiram, Ohio, so my dad can expand his maple sugaring operation. When I visited them last week, they were deep in the process of having the land surveyed so… Continue reading
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Afternoon Adventure: Highclere Castle
AKA: That time we went to Downton Abbey. We saw all sorts of wonderful things on our honeymoon. The Churchill War Rooms, the Tower of London, Stonehenge, the Sherlock Holmes Museum, a play with Sîan Phillips…and yet, now that we’re… Continue reading
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Afternoon Adventure: The Tavern Club
Happy December! I’ve just returned from a whirlwind trip home to Cleveland for Thanksgiving, and it was wonderful to see family and take long walks and eat lots of delicious (modern) food. Around the holidays we often reflect on the… Continue reading
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Research comes from the unlikeliest of places
As evidenced by my various afternoon adventures, I love visiting historic sites. I will drag Josh to living history museums just to pretend I’m living in colonial New England (more on that soon). When my parents called to say they… Continue reading
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Afternoon Adventure: Vanderbilt Mansion, Hyde Park
About a month ago I met up with my parents in Hyde Park, New York, for a weekend of sight-seeing and poking around historic places (this is the order of the day with my family). After touring two painters’ homes… Continue reading
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Afternoon Adventure: Sabbathday Lake Shaker Village
As a teenager I went to an all-girls school, one steeped in tradition and programs that recalled English prep schools. One of the big ones was chapel, where we heard guest speakers and senior speeches. Before the program began, we… Continue reading
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Two years
Dear blog, Today you are older and hopefully wiser. (I’m not sure I am.) We’ve done quite a bit this past year… cooked from recipes from 1967, 1903, and the 1st century AD visited Downton Abbey through Victorian and Edwardian… Continue reading
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Afternoon Adventure: Longwood Gardens
A month ago my family met up in Philadelphia to celebrate my sister’s graduation. We had some free time before the festivities began, so we drove about an hour outside of the city to the Brandywine Valley, former home of… Continue reading
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Afternoon Adventure: Servant Life Tour at The Elms
I want to say something meaningful about all this horrifying news coming out of Boston, but I can’t find the words. There’s only so much sadness I can take in at a time, especially when it’s on such a vast… Continue reading
Abby Murphy 