Katherine Hepburn, Tom Sawyer and Huck? Life on the shore.

Ms Hepburn relaxing at her Fenwick home. The renovation must have gutted the entire place. The new designer not only had to move the house back from the waterfront but wanted to go with all white. How could he gut it is beyond me.

I captured these images today of these two free spirits jumping and diving off the landing dock in Essex right near the Connecticut River Museum. They reminded me of Huckleberry Finn and Tom Sawyer.
The Connecticut River Museum is located up the Connecticut River, ( we live at the mouth of the river in Old Lyme), about a 10 minute drive north. I was handing in payment and health information for my youngest son to go to camp here next week. He absolutely loves the camps they hold.

Next week is "Back to Colonial Camp" and he is very excited to be back with the adult teachers who help them learn and actually give them a "role" for the week. Although the head quarters are at the River School as they call it around here the actual camp is down in Old Saybrook at Bushnell Farm, a very old Colonial Farm which has been preserved since the 1600s.

Old Saybrook is actually one of the oldest towns in the United States and the townspeople take great pride in that fact. (oh and that Katherine Hepburn was a life long resident of course among other famous New York City Broadway people). Ms Hepburn's family home in Fenwick is now on the market again for a hefty sum of 28 million. I have seen it inside and it was not changed from the time her family rebuilt it after the hurricane of 1938. The inside originally looked like the side of an old ship. All wood walls etc. The outside was unrenovated and unpretentious. Now look and see the difference. Click here. This is what the exterior used to look like when I would walk by with my dog and friend. She was still alive then.


Katherine Hepburn in her kitchen, unrenovated and certainly not as glamorous as the new one installed. I guess she liked her old family home on the shore just as it was.