Vacation Part 2! Sudbury, Massachusetts

My husband's favorite places of all in Massachusetts is Sudbury and Concord. I have to break my trip into parts because I'm not good at the blogging thing yet so I can't seem to get all my photos and text to work out well so if you don't mind all the part 1, 2, 3's etc, then please stay with me. I'm so excited to share my trip with you.

As I was saying, my husband's favorite place to go to in Sudbury is Longfellow's Wayside Inn as well as the town of Concord. Longfellow stayed and ate here on many occasions and wrote about it in "Tales of the Wayside Inn'. It was a popular hangout for many of the locals from Concord including Henry Thoreau, Ralph Waldo Emerson and for dinners that included another famous local, Louisa May Alcott.

Bill and I have stayed at the Inn as overnighters before though we didn't this time. We did have a wonderful dinner in their tavern room. Lit by candles and kerosene lamps, it's very warm and inviting and you just settle in and enjoy it all. This was a famous stagecoach stop as well. They say the Inn is haunted by a former innkeeper's daughter who loved the Inn so much, she can't bear to leave so she stays to keep watch over the guests. We didn't meet her! The Wayside does a nice thing for its guests when the Summer comes~~they set out big wooden adirondak chairs out in front for everyone to sit and enjoy the night air. It's lovely.

Across from the Inn is the Wayside Grist Mill. We can thank Henry Ford for restoring this beauty. You can go in and see the "works" and although I only love to look at and photograph it, my husband and son enjoy walking through it to see how it works. That's not a postcard, btw, that's a real photo I took.

Lastly, Sudbury is home to the Little Red Schoolhouse. This is the school where Mary Sawyer went to school and was followed by her lamb. It made the children laugh and play to see a lamb at school--you know the rest. Yes, there really was a Mary. You can't go into the school; I photographed through the window. Another favorite and must see every time we go to Sudbury. Simple stops that mean so much.