EV Road Trip Day 14
We met some fellow travelers this morning over breakfast. Laura and Andrea were best friends in high school. Laura is a dancer from California and Andrea is a keyboardist musician in a classic rock band (and formerly in the Navy) from Connecticut. Both are fee spirits and were here for Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health (like Esalen). They lost each other over the years and then found each other again. They had some really great stories about how they met their husbands. They were delightful. This is what I like about staying in beds and breakfasts and small country inns. It’s the people you meet - either locals or fellow travelers.
After breakfast we left Lenox and drove to Hadley for lunch with Roger Sorkin, Founder, Executive Director and Producer for the American Resilience Project (ARP), a nonprofit documentary filmmaker where John serves as a Board Member, Advisor, and Executive Producer. It was great to catch up.
After lunch, we drove to Sudbury, Massachusetts for a delightful visit and dinner with more long lost cousins from John’s father’s side of the family.
Our lodging for the night, Longfellow’s Wayside Inn, “began as a simple, two-room family home hosting travelers along the Old Boston Post Road in 1716. It is now the oldest inn operating in the United States. Nestled under great oak trees at the center of a majestic 100+ acre property, the Inn offers generous hospitality, delicious New England cuisine, and comfortable lodging in a warm, historic setting radiating with charm…continuing a time honored inn-keeping tradition for visitors from across the globe and around the corner, for over 300 years.” Our room, number 9, is purported to be haunted by Jerusha Howe (1797-1842) . The room, one of two original bedrooms, is up a steep stairway above the old kitchen. I wonder if we will have a visitation…
See: https://ancestorsinaprons.com/.../jerusha-howe-ghost.../
