Eugene O`Neill

Stop and visit the Chamber of Commerce Visitors Center in Olde Mistick Village, a shopping center off the wall with picturesque shops. Get great advice. Beside the famous aquarium which has both indoor and outdoor exhibits and hands-on exploration of Mystic Seaport, which offers costumed interpreters and artisans depicting life in a 19th century seaport shipbuilding, take Route across the river and explore the houses on the waterfront. Not only are you offered views of Mystic Seaport crowded with hundreds of children roaming the ships, buildings and other exhibits, you also have the narrow streets of the waterfront you. Drive at a walking pace, admiring the houses of citizens. Each house has a plaque naming the owner of origin, occupation, and date of construction. There were carpenters, captains, sail makers, doctors, clergymen, merchants, tavern owners, mechanics, etc. It is a real treat, not only being away from the mob, but also see the houses of the 19th century, when these men and their families lived. From the exterior construction, size, architecture and landscaping surrounding these men were successful.


Leaving the quiet waterfront, visit the rest of the city, passing by Mystic Pizza, where the film was shot in 1988. The rest of the city climbs the surrounding hills, offering views of the Mystic River and Long Island Sound. On leaving the town on the road. Find a small cemetery dating from the War of 1812.


Stop in Stonington, Conn., another surprise. Once again the streets are very narrow houses with people in the maritime sector. A substantial house of Captain Edmund Fanning, who was the first to fly the flag of the United States of America in the world in 1798-9 aboard the Betsy.


A little known event that took place here a fierce battle against the British. Holding out the landing parties of three British ships of the local population of Stonington and Mystic place outside invasion. A lighthouse at the point is still the time of the battle. The cemetery is that you passed the home of the brave people of Mystic. The men were buried in Stonington in a historic cemetery in their town as well.


Across the River Pawcatuck, the line between Connecticut and Rhode Island, you venture into the west, RI. View armory to Watch Hill Point. The Merry-go-round was built in 1870. Each horse is hand carved from one piece of wood. Their mane and tail are real horse hair. The horses swing when the carousel turns giving illusing flight. The carousel is still in operation.


Next visit to New London. New London is also the childhood home of Eugene O'Neill's Monte Cristo Cottage. Overlooking the harbor, O'Neill, dramatist to win the Nobel Prize, the parameter used for two of his pieces, a long stay in the day and night Oh! , Wilderness. Signage in Connecticut is wonderful, until you enter the cities. The founding fathers assume you know what you're on the street. They are very good to give the names of cross streets, but have failed in the main streets. You may have trouble finding Pequot Street, where O'Neill was at home. Use a map.


Trumbull House, War. At the heart of Lebanon, Conn., found the house of Jonathan Trumbull, the only colonial governor who sided with the revolutionaries. London was located midway between Boston and New York. His house was the meeting place of over 1,200 strategy meetings. Perhaps most important has been with Washington and the Comte de Rochambeau before the Battle of Yorktown.


His neighbor was Dr. William Beaumont, the "father of physiology". He observed and documented the human digestive process by an injury to the stomach of a patient who does n.