Family Walk

Thank you to everyone who dropped by my 3650th Blip Birthday yesterday, what a smashing bunch of folks you are.

I have broken with my very recent tradition of posting a Euan blip today.  He is there, but fast asleep, at least for a little longer, as we took a family walk out to the Salem Maritime National Historic Site.  I must say that there was a bit of artistic licence at work on the leaflet as the walk along the wharf to the light station looked much more appealing than it actually was, and the light station much cuter.  However, it was great to get out in the fresh air and sunshine, pausing for cuppas at Brew Box.

This is the Derby Wharf, built by Captain Richard Derby and his son for the family’s merchant and privateering operation.  ‘By the mid 1700s Salem’s merchants, like others throughout the American colonies, felt that Britain was not protecting their vessels from threats by the French and Spanish.  This, combined with unpopular British trade regulations, prompted many Salem merchants to become strong supporters of independence from Britain.  During the Revolution Salem was the only American port that never fell to the British and, as a result served as an active base for privateers.’