Smith's Castle
On Saturday, Caleb and I went to Smith's Castle, one of the early European settlements in RI. The grounds are beautiful; it overlooks a bit of harbor and has some lovely gardens. They also had two nice samplers on display, one from the 1760s and one from the 1820s.
I'd love to become a docent at a historic site someday; it strikes me as possibly one of the best things in the world to get to dress up in historic clothes and teach people cool stuff about history. It's too bad that the Romans never made it too New England.
I worked on the sock there and back, as well as while we were walking around the house:
