Linnie Shere & Mae Brown

Submitted by Lynn July 21, 1955 ENJOYED EASTERN TRIP Mrs. Mae BROWN of Portage, Wis., and Mrs. Linnie SHERE returned home Saturday from a two weeks trip to Northport, L. I. and other points in the east. They visited Mr. and Mrs. R. G. RALLI on Long Island and enjoyed a tour of the island, visiting Teddy Roosevelt's home at Oyster Bay and the Wm. K. VANDERBILT museum. They enjoyed a five day motor trip with the RALLI's to such points of interest on Cape Cod as Falmouth where they ferried to Martha's Vineyard and toured the island by taxi. They spent tha night on the tip of the cape at Provincetown. They drove down the west coast of the cape andup the east coast of Massachusetts to Plymouth and on to Whitman for lunch at the Toll House where the recipe for Toll House cookies originated. Lexington and concord were the next stops and they saw the Concord bridge and the monument of the Minute Men. They visited the homes of some of the poets, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Louisa Mae Allcott and Thoreau. They went on to Boston and visited the Boston Commons, Old North church, Fanuel Hall, Cops Hill and Beacon Hill, then on to Salem and Gloucester where one of the largest sardine industries is located. They crossed the lower part of New Hampshire to the town of West Rupert and a small cemetery where the ancestors of Lee W. BROWN are buried and anumber of the graves of theHOPKINS famly, who came west with the BROWNS, were located. That night was spent at Lake Bomosheen in the Green Mountains and the next day they ferried across Lake Champlain to Fort Ticonderoga. From there they went to Lake George, one of the largest lakes in New York, enjoyed a 35 mile boat ride around the lake and spent the night there. The next day on their way back to Northport, they passed thru orchards of apples and sweet cherries and vineyards. Raspberries, wild beach plum jelly and maple sugar, syrup were on sale at all road stands. On Wednesday evening after their return to Long Island they went to Jones Beach and saw Guy Lombardo's musical presentation of the Arabian Nights, featuring a cast of 250 people, the Lombardo orchestra, Lauritz Melchior, Janik and Arnant, adagio team, and Nirska, the prima balerina, in her butterfly dance. Thursday was spent in New York City with a boat trip around Manhatten Island, past Ellis Island and the Statue of Liberty. At Radio City Music Hall they saw the play "Mr. Roberts" and the famous Rockettes dancers. That evening they saw the stage play "Fanny" starring Exlo Pinza and Walter Slezak and left for home that evening at midnight.