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On the Road and In Your Backyard

by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)|  May 22, 20185:00 am| 22 Comments

This post is in: On The Road, Open Threads, Readership Capture

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On the Road is a weekday feature spotlighting reader photo submissions.

From the exotic to the familiar, whether you’re traveling or in your own backyard, we would love to see the world through your eyes.

Submit Your Photos

Good Morning All,

This weekday feature is for Juicers who are are on the road, traveling, or just want to share a little bit of their world via stories and pictures. So many of us rise each morning, eager for something beautiful, inspiring, amazing, subtle, of note, and our community delivers – a view into their world, whether they’re far away or close to home – pictures with a story, with context, with meaning, sometimes just beauty. By concentrating travel updates and tips here, it’s easier for all of us to keep up or find them later.

So please, speak up and share some of your adventures and travel news here, and submit your pictures using our speedy, secure form. You can submit up to 7 pictures at a time, with an overall description and one for each picture.

You can, of course, send an email with pictures if the form gives you trouble, or if you are trying to submit something special, like a zipped archive or a movie. If your pictures are already hosted online, then please email the links with your descriptions.

For each picture, it’s best to provide your commenter screenname, description, where it was taken, and date. It’s tough to keep everyone’s email address and screenname straight, so don’t assume that I remember it “from last time”. More and more, the first photo before the fold will be from a commenter, so making it easy to locate the screenname when I’ve found a compelling photo is crucial.

Have a wonderful day, and enjoy the pictures!

The form is wonky, but I hope to get that solved later this week. Thanks for your patience.

Today, pictures from valued commenter p.a..

Local stuff from commenter p.a.
Hearthside House, Lincoln, RI.  From the website:
According to popular folklore, sometime around 1810, Stephen Hopkins Smith, a Quaker who lived in a modest house directly across the street from where Hearthside sits now, won $40,000 in a lottery. He used his winnings to construct a house exceptional enough to win the heart of a young socialite from Providence, who had informed him that she must live in one of the grandest homes in the state. When the mansion was completed, Smith took his beloved for a buggy ride along the Great Road. Upon approaching Hearthside, the young lady exclaimed, “My, what a beautiful house, but who would ever want to live way out here in the wilderness?” The heartbroken Smith brought her back to Providence. He never married, and he never lived in the house. Thanks to this sad legend, Hearthside has sometimes been called “The House That Love Built” or “Heartbreak House.”
When Hearthside was built in 1810, it was oddly situated among farms and forests along Great Road in what was then the town of Smithfield. This area was originally part of the land included in Roger Williams’ purchase of Providence in 1636. It wasn’t until 1871 that it became the town of Lincoln.
Opened in 1683, Great Road is one of the oldest thoroughfares in the country, following in part a Native American trail. It originally ran from Providence to Mendon, Massachusetts, the first English settlement in south-central Massachusetts. Great Road was built to encourage settlement in the Blackstone and Moshassuck River valleys and transport the region’s products to the Providence marketplace.

Another angle

 

Fighting SeaBee statue, Davisville (North Kingston) RI.  Roadside America website:
The Fighting Seabee, mascot of the U.S. Naval Construction Battalion (CB, get it?), stands at the Seabee Museum and Memorial Park, site of the original Naval Construction Battalion in World War II. The “Bee” sports a sailor’s cap, big teeth, and brandishes a pipe wrench in one hand, a hammer in another, and a machine gun in two other hands. It was created by Frank J. Iafrate, and refurbished in 1999.

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Just awesome, so f’ing awesome.

Thank you so much p.a., do send us more when you can.

 

 

Travel safely everybody, and do share some stories in the comments, even if you’re joining the conversation late. Many folks confide that they go back and read old threads, one reason these are available on the Quick Links menu.

 

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22Comments

  1. 1.

    Mary G

    May 22, 2018 at 5:08 am

    Cool.

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    raven

    May 22, 2018 at 5:12 am

    When I went to my Vietnam unit reunion in Providence I had a fishing trip booked and it got rained out so I spent the day site seeing and the See Bee Museum one of the places I visited!

  3. 3.

    JPL

    May 22, 2018 at 5:40 am

    That SeaBee statue is interesting. Let’s move it to the White House Lawn and face it toward the residence.

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    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    May 22, 2018 at 5:50 am

    There’s also a Seabee museum and statue out here on the west coast at Port Hueneme(near Oxnard).

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    raven

    May 22, 2018 at 6:07 am

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: My father in law did his training there.

    Here’s a Quonset hut at the museum at Quonset Point . I lived in one for 13 months!

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    satby

    May 22, 2018 at 6:17 am

    That is a beautiful house! Is it a private residence now or some sort of museum? (Thanks p.a.)

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    raven

    May 22, 2018 at 6:27 am

    @satby: Hearthside House Museum

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    Waratah

    May 22, 2018 at 6:41 am

    I love the Seabee! The house is beautiful, i wish the story had a happy ending.

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    p.a.

    May 22, 2018 at 6:53 am

    The CB Museum has multiple versions ‘generations’ of Quonset Huts. Variations on how the corrugation was placed: perpendicular to the ground up and over the arched frame, or parallel to the ground; later versions with side windows and entry overhangs for more weather protection.

    I worked with a former CB. He volunteered for two summers ‘on the ice’ in Antarctica. IIRC he said for a winter tour you had to pass a psych test, kind of like a submariner test.

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    debbie

    May 22, 2018 at 7:23 am

    I wondered how “way out in the wilderness” the house actually was at that time, and Google tells me 7.8 miles. Is that really so far away?

  11. 11.

    OzarkHillbilly

    May 22, 2018 at 7:35 am

    I’d love to tour that house.
    @debbie: Buggy/horseback miles. Also, “wilderness” was a lot more wild and resilient back then.

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    raven

    May 22, 2018 at 7:57 am

    @p.a.: Here’s the type I lived in 50 years ago.

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    raven

    May 22, 2018 at 7:58 am

    @p.a.: And my FIL on Saipan with his See Bee’s!

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    p.a.

    May 22, 2018 at 8:40 am

    @raven: @raven:
    Cool. I love the linked QHuts. Metal huts w/o ac must have been tough in the heat, and the first iteration didn’t even have cross-vent.

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    raven

    May 22, 2018 at 8:44 am

    @p.a.: They were pretty cold in the Korean winter too. We had these diesel fired heaters that you hung I 5 gal jerry can on. There was a pump on it and it dripped fuel on a metal plate and the damn thing got red hot. Unfortunately it didn’t last all night so either someone had to get up to restart it or you climbed in your down bag til morning. Sleeping on the ground in the field was really bad!

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    p.a.

    May 22, 2018 at 9:10 am

    @raven: Worked with an AF guy, A10 mechanic spent time in Korea. AF was cush compared to the other services I guess, but one thing I remember him sayinG about Korea: “do not fuck with Korean MPs.”

    2 guys I fish with are Marines (one was prison-or-service, the other’s dad was a DI) from early/mid 60’s, another guy AF. The AF guy would tell basic training stories, the Marines are like: are you shitting me? Fucking country club.

  17. 17.

    rikyrah

    May 22, 2018 at 9:12 am

    Love the pictures. Love old homes. Thanks

  18. 18.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 22, 2018 at 9:51 am

    Ha, that’s great.

  19. 19.

    raven

    May 22, 2018 at 9:54 am

    @p.a.: Oh yea, my old man called em cookie pushers. Of course jarheads thought the same of dogfaces!

  20. 20.

    MomSense

    May 22, 2018 at 10:29 am

    Very cool photos.

  21. 21.

    Mnemosyne

    May 22, 2018 at 10:42 am

    Building a surprise house rarely turns out well. There was a similar sad story about Buster Keaton and his soon-to-be-ex-wife.

  22. 22.

    Tazj

    May 22, 2018 at 11:07 am

    I love the pictures of the Seabee.My dad was a Seabee in WWII.

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I always loved that name. My sister and brother-in-law were both stationed there while in the navy.

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