New England and before: a pictorial

Aug. 18th, 2010 at 9:34 PM

Here are some images of our journey from Indianapolis to Salem, Marblehead, Concord, Providence, Cape Cod, Plymouth and Boston.

An award

Salem Lighthouse

Marblehead Graveyard

Marblehead Church

Louisa May Alcott

Axolotl

Charles Dexter Ward's house

HPL's house

HPL's other house

Fleur de Lys house

The Shunned House

Providence

On Truro Beach

Edmund Hopper's house

Setting east of the Cape

Rock

Italianate (Boston Library)

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kimmekepunk

Aug. 19th, 2010 12:53 pm (UTC)

you found HPL's grave...
we went to the cemetary, but didn't find it. I had the lotnr, but there wasn't a logical order, and no one around to ask...

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gbsteve

Aug. 19th, 2010 01:00 pm (UTC)

I have a copy of Jason C Eckhardt's Off the Ancient Track from Necronomicon Press which has a map. So we just drove straight up to the grave. And it really is a pretty straight line from the entrance. After I took some pictures a guard turned up and told us off for taking pictures without asking permission (of whom I'm not sure) but then he said everyone does it.

When we walked up College Hill to look the first HPL house above, the next door neighbour was watering her garden. Unprompted she said, 'Yeah, that's Lovecraft's house.' They get a few visitors and plenty of media crews at Halloween. Then her plummer turned up and said, 'Lovecraft's house? No kidding!' and also took some photos.

Edited at 2010-08-19 02:44 pm (UTC)

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karohemd

Aug. 19th, 2010 02:01 pm (UTC)

Excellent

One could say you were on the trail of Cthulhu. ;)
HPL had two houses? I thought he was poor?
No Deep Ones?

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gbsteve

Aug. 19th, 2010 02:43 pm (UTC)

Re: Excellent

He lived in them sequentially and they probably belonged to others (his aunts for example) but they were pretty huge houses. There were two more in Providence and a couple in Brooklyn which we didn't visit.

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