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Rainy week

It is really a different trip for us this time as we head out for our tenth journey as Writers on the Road. For the first time since our darling Will was born we will head for the West coast! Time for some adventure. We also have somehow been following a rainy patch of the country this week as we have not had a sunny day since we left home at 10:30PM on Halloween night!
We have made the most of it by going to more museums and historic homes than we usually manage on those beautiful sunny days when no one wants to go indoors.

Our first stop was just in time for the 2PM tour at the Oneida Community Mansion in Oneida New York. This was a find of synchronicity as I searched for our silverware pattern and up popped this Mansion. Now Oneida happens to be exactly halfway to our first destination of our dear buddies, Irene and George. I was fascinated by this discovery that our very own silverware had been made by a commune started in the 1840;s .What made this community rather spicy was that they all shared in a "complex marriage" which meant everyone could share a bed with one another if they arranged for an "interview" to sanction the meeting. The Oneida community was about 250-300 people and lasted about 30 years under one leader, John Noyes. They were very successful in business and had many popular products the most well known being our very own silverware purchased with BettyCrocker coupons many years ago! Our tour guide, Molly, a masters trained historian gave us a private and lively tour.
After our visit we went around the corner to a wonderful restaurant that was once  part of the Oneida Community Golf Course. Raining, raining and getting quite late made us cozy up in the East Syracuse Walmart parking lot. (Will try to insert picture of mansion at later date)

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