…to Mystic, Connecticut. It’s not just the home of Mystic Pizza, where Julia Roberts became a star. It’s also home to Mystic Seaport, where some of the oldest ships in the nation are docked and costumed interpreters re-enact life in the 1800s aboard ships and in seaport towns. (“Harnesses? We don’t need no stinkin’ harnesses!”)We camp in Rhode Island near Ninigret National Wilflife RefugeIn Boston we walk the Freedom Trail. Historic sites include the Old North Church, where two lamps burning in the belfry helped Paul Revere warn of the British approach by seaAmong the dozens of exhibits we peruse over two days at the Shelburne Museum in Vermont, we are most in awe of the quilt gallery’s Judy B. Dales display
