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Amazing Travel Adventures - Massachusetts

New Blog Post Alert: Amazing Travel Adventures - Massachusetts shares a travel destination guide exploring Cape Cod, Fenway Park, Hammond Castle Museum, Singing San Beach and Old Ironsides. Let's travel Massachusetts style!

Hello and welcome to my latest Travel Destination Guide Amazing travel Adventures – Massachusetts. Read on the explore Cape Cod, Hammond Castle Museum, a Singing Beach and so much more. Massachusetts offers its visitors, and residents, mesmerizing landscapes, vibrant cities and history. So much history! Let’s travel Massachusetts style! Cape Cod Cape Cod is a popular summertime destination in…

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Pape Mural

At the Hammond Castle museum, Gloucester, MA.

Swept panorama.

The Pape mural depicts a fictional battle taking place in Gloucester Harbor. Eric Pape intended to demonstrate the significance of John Hays Hammond Jr.'s radio controlled torpedoes to the future of naval warfare. Sailing into Gloucester is the Imperial German Navy High Seas Fleet with a line of battleships, light cruisers, and torpedo boats. To the far left is Gloucester's Eastern Point. To the right and arrayed against the German fleet is a squadron of fighter aircraft, most likely Curtis R-4s. In the water, and being guided by aircraft are Hammond's radio controlled torpedoes. Finally, to the far right are the two radio towers of Point Radio, at Hammond's father's Lookout Hill compound. A resident of nearby Manchester, Eric Pape would have witnessed Hammond's radio control experiments with his fourth, and last, radio control test vessel, the H4, during the summer and autumn of 1917. The H4 is believed to be the first object controlled by radio from the air. The 1917 experiments used a two-person crew in tandem in a specially outfitted Curtis R-4, the pilot in the back and the torpedo operator in the front. Tests showed that a single person was capable of flying the aircraft while guiding the torpedo. The torpedoes on the right are each controlled by a different aircraft. Hammond's torpedoes would have been launched from the shore and guided to their target by either the aircraft or from stations along the harbor. The mural was painted two years after World War One's Battle of Jutland, the most significant sea battle of the war. It is unclear where in John Hays Hammond Sr.'s Lookout Hill compound the painting was prior to its installation in the study of Hammond Castle. The study was a private retreat for John Hays Hammond Jr. during his lifetime and would not have been viewed by the public. In 2020, due to a generous donation from one of the world's foremost collectors of Eric Pape, the mural underwent an extensive restoration so that it can be enjoyed by future generations.

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I need more weird shit to do in boston. Atlas obscura STOP recommending the fucking freedom trail

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Hammond Castle Museum - Gloucester Massachusetts

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Hammond Castle Museum; Massachusetts

In the beginning you told me that you never wanted to get married and we agreed on no additional kids. A few weeks later you started making jokes about what ring I’d like. Now, you’ve said that you see a marriage in the future and when I said we’d have a real wedding you told me it’d be whatever I like.

Sarcastically I started looking up venues and ideas - now here I am creating a wedding vision board at 5 am on a Monday while you sleep next to me with my son snuggling me. I showed you this as a venue idea and you loved the architecture and scenery.

It’s wild how things develop and have changed in these 4 months of our relationship.

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I visited a castle today

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Went to Gloucester today with some family and stumbled upon this castle/museum thing. I love giant old estates like this!! 

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Top 10 Gothic romances and/or top 5 house museums?

Let's do house museums. For a fan of the Gothic genre, I actually haven't consumed as much of it as I'd like.

Also, this is house museums I don't work at. Cool? Cool.

1. Hammond Castle (Built 1920. Gloucester, Massachusetts)

2. The Eustis Estate (Built 1878. Milton, Massachusetts)

3. Chateau de Monte Cristo (Built 1844-47. Le Port-Marly, France)

4. The Merchant's House Museum (Built 1832. New York, New York)

5. Cheekwood Estate (Built 1932- the latest historical house I've ever truly loved. It's also not really a house museum; it's an art museum in an old house. That being said, childhood memories bump it onto this list. Nashville, Tennessee)

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Campaign Sorcery - Out-of-Game Outings

uHullo, Gentle Readers. We're back this month with another Campaign Sorcery article, where we give little ideas on how to make a campaign more memorable. This time, we're leaving the game table and heading out for a bit of fun.

Back after I graduated college, I ran a game of Werewolf: The Apocalypse with a bunch of close friends. The problem was, we rarely got a chance to hang out outside of game time, so, when we got there, there was often a period of 30+ minutes when we'd catch up with each other socially before jumping into game. When we had players showing up late, that meant we often wouldn't get going until an hour or more after the first folks arrived.

Since we could all hang out afterwards, we made a new tradition. We would wait until after the game to do the majority of our socializing. We would go to Bickford's, a local late night place where you could get breakfast all day, and we'd laugh about things that happened in game or chatted about real life stuff over plates of bacon and pancakes. It was also super helpful for when a funny story came to someone's mind during the game, threatening to pop out and ruin the grim atmosphere. When someone would start to segue off into something off-topic, the players would say, "Save it for Bickford's!" And the player would jot it down as something to talk about later.

While I'm not suggesting that you create a new tradition for your games (though feel free to do so), there's nothing that stops you and your gamers from putting together some awesome out-of-game excursions to build the chemistry and camaraderie within the group. It can be great to get everyone in the group out from around the table and off into the wide world for some fun together.

If a movie or T.V. show that seems of group interest comes out, have the group together to see it. There's a slate of new Star Wars movies coming out in the next few years, as well as many new shows on Disney+. If you're running a Star Wars RPG, how cool would it be to all enjoy the new Star Wars product together. Or if you're running D&D, and a swords & sorcery movie comes out, get together to see it.

Look into local museums to see if anything of interest might be coming, or if they have a permanent exhibit that would relevant to your group's interests. Back in the day, Worcester MA used to house the Higgins Armory, a collection of medieval weapons and armor. Fairly close-by, there's a restaurant called the Castle, which has a whole medieval-look to it as well. I took my D&D group to both places as an outing, and we had a great time. People took photos of weapons and armor that they thought their characters might use, and it added a little something to the game. I'm also blessed to live close to Hammond Castle, an area that would be a fantastic outing for a D&D group. And any D&D group could have a great time going to a Renaissance Faire together; you'd better believe mine did!

You don't have to do anything elaborate on an outing. I used to go hiking in a local woods with mine when I was a teen, and, sometimes, we'd take what we thought of as D&D Rations with us and have a picnic, trying to imagine what it would be like to be adventurers, exploring a trackless wood (even if the woods we were in had very clear tracks.)

You might consider going to a board game cafe and playing a non-RPG with your group, just to have a chance to socialize and enjoy each other's company outside of the confines of a normal game. You might check out local museums of interest. Even places that you might not traditionally think of as of interest to you may surprise you. We have the Norman Rockwell Museum in western MA. It's a great museum on its own, but they also regularly have art exhibits that, as a lover of fantasy in general and D&D in particular, have been of interest. They just ended an exhibit specifically about fantasy art, which included several pieces borrowed from Wizards of the Coast's archives, as well as a few pieces from the collection of a certain Tony DiTerlizzi, who happens to be a local.

I hope this has made you think about the possibility of going out with your gaming group for some social and extracurricular activities. Next time, we'll have a chat about a possible gift for your gamers...right in time for the holidays! Until then, may all your 20s be natural.

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Hammond Castle Museum || Gloucester, Mass

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Top 2 Most Haunted Places in Gloucester, Massachusetts

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The Hammond Castle Museum was stunning and peaceful. I would have stayed here forever.

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