Newburyport Today

Happy Labor Day!

We hope you are enjoying your day, it's beautiful outside!  Join us starting tomorrow for a full week of posts.

They're Back!

It's the first day of school here in Newburyport, and Paul Hawkes is on the job, crossing kids on High and Johnson Street.  Great crisp sunny morning, perfect for the kids.  It was great to see so many out walking.

Rail Trail Bridge

The Rail Trial bridge is in!  We had just about given up on getting to see it installed.  We went by the site several times over a three hour period and the bridge had still not arrived a little after 9:00 PM.  So off to bed we went when Paul Kelly  called to say we should head back down.  So glad we did, and thanks Paul for sharing your photos with us as well!

For being close to midnight there was a good size crowd, maybe about 20 folks.  Paul got all the stats. for us, the bridge is 14 feet wide by 80 feet long and it weighs a mere 23 tons,  the crane that lifted it into place weighs 100 tons.  Worth watching for sure!

And where did the bridge come from you ask?  Well, it was delivered on top of this cleaver freight truck, driven all the way from Tennessee.  This brave gentleman, sat under it the whole way steering.  The trip took two days.

 

We can't wait to get some more shots of the bridge in the daylight.  Hope you get down there to see it in person. 

Scenes from the Weekend

After a summer of rain and steamy heat, this weekend was a particular gift.  Blue skies, warm bright sun, and mild humidity.  We could not have designed it better ourselves.  We took advantage on Saturday and went for a bike ride in Maudslay State Park.  The wildflowers are in bloom!  What a lovely treat.

On Sunday we strolled down to the Famer's Market.  As usual, it was packed with folks gathering together, eating, chatting, and of course shopping.  We found wonderful tomatoes and super fresh peaches, hurray!  We ran into Bethany Groff from Historic New England, walking her sheep and buying cucumbers.  Too cute.

We also ran into the team from Revitalive looked like they were having a ball!  Great looking food too.  Hope you all got to stop by the market yourselves. 

 

Beautiful Evening

We were blessed with a little downtime last night and headed out to Plum Island Grille for dinner.  Wonderful night -  great dinner, fresh local oysters were the highlight, pure heaven on a plate.  There was a glorious breeze and the sunset was as usual amazing (please don't write us about how this is caused by pollution, let's just enjoy...).  Get down to the island and enjoy for yourselves.

P.S.  We did not see a single greenhead