Just got back yesterday from a two week trip. We took my oldest son
to a summer camp for handicapped folks in Catoctin Mountain Park in
Maryland (we live in Michigan). We visited some friends in PA, spent
a few days in NYC, visited my sister in CT, spent a few nights in
Southwest Harbor, Maine, right next to the original Hinckley yard, now
their repair yard. It was fun watching the beehive of activity. The
weather sucked, being very foggy, not unusual I suspect that time of
the year. Then on to Nova Scotia to watch the tides in the Minas
Basin. I've wanted to see the Bay of Fundy since I was a kid. The
tides were fascinating in their tremendous range. The area we visited
on the north shore is sparsely populated, with lots of wildlife.
While driving to Port Greville to visit a shipbuilding museum, we saw
a grey fox, some sort of hare, and a wolf. Later we had to brake for
a moose calf.

Does anyone know what the strange antenna array is northeast of the
road near the New Brunswick - Nova Scotia border?

Finally we started the return trip. One day to Gorham, NH, then the
next to Lake Saranac, NY, next to Gettysburg, PA to be ready to pick
up my son, then home to Midland Michigan yesterday. I doubt I'll get
the wife to make another trip like that anytime soon, but we'd like to
fly back to NS sometime and visit Halifax.

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One of the best parts of the trip for me was the visit to the American
Precision Museum in Windsor, VT. Thanks to this group for discussing
this museum, which alerted me to its existence. It's full of machine
tools dating from as early as the 1840's, especially Jones and Lamson
stuff. Also included is an incredible display of models of production
machine tools created by one individual whose name I don't recall
although it's documented in photos on the laptop, the original (serial
no. 1) Bridgeport, and rifle manufacturing equipment. The German
modelmaker spent 40,000 hours producing the models by his estimate.

If any of you get within a state or two, you should definitely visit
this museum.

Pete Keillor