Plymouth, Vermont

This fall, we visited the birthplace of Calvin Coolidge. Plymouth Notch is such a sweet little town, and I definitely plan on visiting again one day!

My son got to be the President!

The childhood home of Calvin Coolidge's mother is now
home to a quaint soup & sandwich diner.

Calvin Coolidge's father owned this little general store.
The lived in the little building attached to the back (also
the place where Coolidge was born).

The church where the Coolidge family worshiped.

The school that Coolidge attended as a child.

The view from the visitor's center.

Barre City, Vermont

Every now and again we act like tourists in our own town. These are some photos taken around Barre City

Recently, we visited the small museum located at the Vermont Historical Society (they also gave us tickets to visit the Vermont History Museum in Montpelier at no additional fee).

Downtown Barre City, Vermont

Barre, Vermont: Granite Center of the World

My kids (ages 8 and 15)

Civil War artifacts

Room of oddities donated by local residents.

This train was loaded with granite from the Barre quarries.

Trains deliver Barre granite all over the country

Barre Town, Vermont

We spent some time exploring the Websterville and Graniteville areas of Barre Town this weekend. On Saturday we hiked some of the Millstone Trails in Barre Town Forest. It was a really nice hike, but I wish we had printed out a map before setting out. We parked at the Brook Street access, which had a disk golf course along the trail. We don't disk golf, but figured it may be a point of interest to others who may.

East Vista trail.

Sierra relaxing on a chair-shaped boulder at the East Vista.

East Vista

As we were driving out to the Barre Town Forest, I noticed a bike path running alongside the road, so we checked it out on Sunday. It was 1.4 miles one way. We parked at the Barre Town school and walked to the end of the path and back. Here are some photos of our walk:

The path passes Rock of Ages

The following photos were taken when we visited Rock of Ages in 2013:

Rock of Ages granite quarry

Rock of Ages granite quarry

Rock of Ages granite quarry

Bowling on the granite bowling lane outside Rock of Ages