Cool!!!!You're gonna LOVE Mt Auburn Darlene! October is the perfect time to go. Edwin Booth's grave is on a steep hill as you can see in the pictures:
http://www.findagrave.com/cgi-bin/fg.cgi?p...gr&GRid=110
Mt Auburn slideshow:
http://www.mountauburn.org/gallery/
Gloucester is beautiful! My cousin has a flower shop there which her son manages now:
http://www.audreysflowershop.com/about_audreys.htm
The beaches are beautiful. Here's Good Harbor beach which has great memories for me because I used to go there with my grandma when I was a kid. When she came to the US from Ireland - she worked for awhile in the mansion overlooking the beach.
http://www.goodharborbeach.com/
http://www.flickr.com/photos/lenbo/2217443...57604268554349/
Gotta see Hammond Castle.
http://www.hammondcastle.org/common/index....AA&page=A91
So much to see in Cape Ann - Rockport, Magnolia, Manchester-By-The-Sea,
Essex, and Ipswich.
Gotta go to Woodman's in Essex for the BEST seafood! Where they invented the fried clam in 1914. YUM!!!!
My favorite beach is Crane Beach in Ipswich. Check out the photo gallery for
Castle Hill on the Crane estate. I went to a wedding there in October a few yrs ago and it was fabulous!
http://www.thetrustees.org/places-to-visit...-the-crane.html
http://www.thetrustees.org/places-to-visit...the-crane.html#
another place to see is Appleton Farms in Hamilton.
http://www.thetrustees.org/places-to-visit...eton-farms.html
Marblehead is another get place on the North Shore. Here are some photos of Ft Sewall - one of my favorite places.
http://www.legendinc.com/Pages/ArchivesCen...FortSewall.html
and Abbot Hall has the painting "The spirit Of
You won't be bored!