W-S is a very nice town, with lots of food, glorious food and some nice sights too. The Reynolda (where I'm going tomorrow) is a world famous mansion with lots of arts, and there's Old Salem with buildings from the 1800s and history going back to the 1750s. There are lots of other things to see and do too; it has colleges and research institutions and whatnot, and it's fairly close to the other big cities in North Carolina. It's one of the places in the US where I feel I could live.
All Old Salem pics here.
Bev & Amber at the restaurant where Bev was nice enough to buy me lunch today. Wheeee!
Tuesday: The differences between British and American informal English, course 101. (See meaning #2 here)
Bev & Amber again, in Old Salem. Being around these guys you find you laugh a lot. My cheeks were actually hurting when I got back to my hotel.
George Washington hisself spent two days here and today it's a tavern, open for lunch and dinner.
Old cemeteries are fun. These guys were Scandinavian, so I took pics of their tombstones. The early settlers in Salem were all Moravians, a sect that combines religion with communism; two of my favorite ideologies, mmmmm.
Dude, your name wuz BONER. Dat's funny. (Yes, this is what it's come to - I'm making jokes about dead people now).
Boner had a whole house to himself, tee hee.
Fake oven at the Winkler Bakery.
Not likely, dude.
Some random houses in Old Salem. It really is a pretty neighborhood. Again, I wish I had a few million dollars lying around.
2 comments:
The Moravians, world's oldest Protestant group, were German by way of Czechoslovakia (google John Hus). They were joined by Scandinavians, Brits, etc.
But what makes you think the Winkler Bakery's oven was fake? Several of the buildings have been restored, but one of Salem's claims to fame is that so much of it (including the bake oven) is original.
Proud Salem Resident
The reason why I so rashly described the oven as fake was the artificial light placed near the wood. I suppose I should have been more precise and left open the possibility that the oven was real, though probably bricked up.
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