We left for Kim and Sean's on Friday about 9:30 and took the scenic route down on the Merritt Parkway which doesn't allow any commercial traffic. We took a few caches with us to do on the trip just to break up the drive. Two of the caches were in park and rides along the parkway and the other one we did was along the Saugatuck River in a trout management area. The area was called the William "Doc" Skerlick who was born in 1903 and died in1994 and was a sportsman. educator, conservationist and friend. He taught anglers about the connections that people, fish and the enviroment share. It also was a historic location called Jennings Trail British Fording Place. British troops forded the Saugatuck River here on April 28,1777 on their return from raiding Danbury never to invade inland Connecticut again. On our drive to one of the caches we came upon Gallagher Estate in Cranbury Park which is in Norwalk, CT. The park is 220 acres and features frisbee golf, trails and a children's playground. The property had been the estate of Edward B. Gallaher, owner (since 1894) of the Clover Manufacturing Company[3] on Main Avenue, which made industrial abrasives such as sandpaper. He began buying the land, which was previously farmland owned by different families, in the 1920s. After Gallaher's death, the property was left to his alma mater, Stevens Institute of Technology in Hoboken, New Jersey, which continued to own it while Gallagher's wife lived there. After she died, the institute sold it to the city in 1965. The Gallaher mansion, still on the property, is a 62-room, eighteenth century-style English fieldstone manor house built in 1930 or 1931 (accounts differ. The mansion, which is now used for community meetings and weddings, has oak paneling, French doors and stained glass windows. There is also a small theater on the property called The White Barn Theater. The theater, created from an old horse barn on the estate, aimed to present unusual and experimental plays, promote new playwrights, composers, actors, directors and designers, and help established artists develop new directions in ways they might not have been able to do in commercial theater. Then we were off Branchburg and Sean's house. The rest of the drive was uneventful and we got there about 2:00 and got unpacked and went for a swim. We had pizza for dinner and I retired early as Mom did also.
Saturday was a rainy day here in Jersey so about all we did was hang around and watch TV. Kim and Sean went to the grocery store and filled the fridge with food for the week. Sean and I watched the Yankee old timers day and the Yankee-Angel baseball game. We had chicken, corn and stuffed mushrooms for dinner and the we watched Tv for awhile until bed time. Well that's all the news that fit to print from here and we will see you soon. We miss all you guys and love you.
Picture List:1,2-William "Doc" Skerlick Trout Management Area on the Saugatuck River, 3-Jennings Trail British Fording Place historic marker, 4-Saugatuck River,5,6-Gallagher Estate.
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