New England trip '07 photos #4

[infrogmation]

Fall River and New Bedford Massachusetts




Fall River, Massachusetts


Super-cool 19th century Durfee High School building (They had their own telescope tower? How neat is that!), now a court-house.


Regional treat: Del's Lemonaide


Victorian house


Old mansion now housing historical society museum


Main Street


New Bedford, Massachusetts


Seaman's Bethel, front exterior


Pulpet in form of ship's prow; not a product of Herman Melville's imagination


View from the prow


Originally a bank, then a courthouse, now the tourism center


Harbor


City Warfinger. (Wasn't that a 1970s band?)

Comments

New Bedford

[meekorouse.livejournal.com]

beautiful pix! I've always wanted to visit that area (have a weird fascination with whaling history & tall ships). Did you visit the Lizzy Borden house while in Fall River?

Fall River

[infrogmation.livejournal.com]

Fall River is an attractive small city. I passed by a number of Lizzie Borden related sights, and the Historical Society Museum had a room full of Lizzie Borden artifacts. However I missed the murder house; which is now an expensive small hotel. I'm simply not one of those people to whom it sounds attractive to pay extra to stay in a room where grisley murders took place.