Sharp's Travels

Pat & Roger picked us up at 12:00 pm and we headed to Augusta and stopped at Olive Garden for a lunch of soup, salad and bread sticks. Then we headed over to Old Fort Western on the Kennebec River. It is the oldest wooden fort in North America. We had a good time touring the fort with a person dressed in costume who narrated our tour. They have an excellent web page which tells all the history of the fort and the house. See web site www.oldfortwestern.org Make sure you click on fort history and then on house history. From the fort we headed to Pine Street State Arboretum. The welcome center was closed, so we walked over to the trail head and checked the map of the different trails. We could see things had run down and was in need of help. Due to state cutbacks there just isn’t enough money to go around. It is sad to see things go downhill. They need more volunteers. From there we stopped at Hannaford’s grocery store. It is a new store that is considered to be a green store. They had a display of the things they have done to help preserve electric and water. Every little bit helps the environment. Pat and Roger took us back to their place for supper and an evening of games and lots of laughs. Pat and Cheri won everything we played. It was a great day to spend with close friends.
I have uploaded pictures of the day. See Album Old Fort Western.