More on Quebec and On to Maine Sept 16, 209

There are quite a few museums in Quebec City, and unfortunately we only had time to visit two of them. One of the most interesting was Discovery Pavilion. Here there was a series of docuramas, with a combination of movies superimposed on a room of furniture, or an outdoor scenes. Most of the docuramas were involved with descriptions of the famous battle between the British invaders, and the French defenders in 1759. General Montcalm for the French and General Wolf for the British were shown outlining their strategic plans. Both were killed in the battle, which only lasted about 20 minutes. A visit to the museum was followed up by a tour of the battlefield on the Plains of Abraham in a bus driven by a man dressed up in a period costume of a farmer living at the time of the battle. The Plains of Abraham, outside the city walls where the battle between the French and British occurred, always had a rather biblical name to me. I was surprised to learn that it was a local name for fields being farmed by a farmer, Abraham Martin.

As discussed in the previous post we went from Quebec to Vermont, across New Hampshire and to Leeds,Maine, which is next to Turner. Turner, Maine is in the area that my mother grew up, and a place where I have numerous relatives --- first, second, and third cousins.

I wanted to pursue further genealogical research with my cousin, Horace (aka as Sonny). We had a nice visit over several days. We also had a chance to visit another cousin, Jim, who I have not seen since I was a child, probably 60 -65 years ago.

The area around Turner is very striking. The roads go over high hills on which there are fields and farms. one can look to the mountains in new Hampshire. Madeline was particularly taken with the farm houses connected to the barns through sheds and extensions of the house, so the farmers could get to their animals in the winter without going out into the cold. A picture of one such farm is shown below.

We are now in New Hampshire, and we will be here for a week or so. The leaves are turning color on the tree around the swamps and the bogs. Occasionally along the road there will be a maple tree with red leaves. We will probably be gone before the peak of the fall colors are here.