Wow, did we have a good time in Salem! One problem though.... it rained all day Saturday! We woke up to splendid weather on Saturday morning and then by the time we hit the streets - it was pouring rain! We were up in Salem three years ago and it was raining that weekend too! I can remember slogging through the streets on a rainy night following a guide as we did the ghost tour through the spooky streets of Salem. We saw lots of 'orbs' on the pictures that we took that night and a couple of 'spirits', or so my hubby says, on one of the pictures - I am looking for those pics - our computer crashed that winter and I need to find the discs with the pictures on them..... They don't seem to be in the normal place that I put computer discs...... Woow!!! That was supposed to be the sound of a ghost. LOL! I have pictures from this year and saw orbs and some kind of shooting lights that are going up into the air, not down like raindrops!! You can see the raindrops as round, misty circles that seem to sparkle; the one visible orb is near the ground and around one particular gravestone.
I am always drawn to New England partly because of our relation to the Adams family through my dad's side of the family, but I am equally as drawn to Virginia through our descent from the Washington family through Jemima Washington, the daughter of Thomas Washington (one of George's aide de camps and his cousin), again through my dad's side of the family. I sometimes forget that West Virginia was part of Virginia until the Civil War. The funny thing is that I am also descended from the Grubb family that settled here in Delaware in the 1600's through my mother's side of the family - a fact I never knew until I did our ancestral tree as a gift to my family last Thanksgiving! One of my sisters-in-law wanted to know if the family stories that my brother had told her were true and it started me on a quest to answer some of those questions.
The answers I found were amazing and surprisingly enough - a lot of my ancestors came down to Virginia in the early 1700's and migrated to the western portion of Virginia into what eventually became West Virginia. The most interesting thing is that I am descended from one of the founding families of Delaware! Weird!! Anyway, off on one of my tangents again! The rest of this blog are pictures I took up in Salem showing the wonderful architecture of New England!
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