Picture of Swansea farm

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Tue Feb 01, 2005 2:02 pm

This is a link to a site concerning the history of Swansea Massachusetts.

http://www.swanseamass.org/history/bldgs_photos.html

They have a photo of the Borden family farm in Swansea taken from the Swansea Historical Society archives. You can click this link to open only the picture itself.

http://www.swanseamass.org/history/old_ ... borden.jpg

If this has been posted before I apologize for making a new post.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 2:37 am

Thanks Allen!
It still really looks like that. Have you been there?
We drove by it on a full moon and it was instantly recognizable.

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 4:43 pm

No I haven't seen it. I was unsure of how to get there, I did not have any directions on how to get to it at the time.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Wed Feb 02, 2005 11:16 pm

When are you going back?

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 10:24 pm

I am hoping to make another trip there this summer after school lets out.
I hope everything works out that way. I can't wait to go back.

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:28 pm

It sounds like a few people are planning on going to Fall River this summer.
Maybe there can be some coordination?

If I find out we are invited again, we will let you guys know.

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:42 pm

Here is a picture I took of Swansea last May.

Tracy..

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Thu Feb 03, 2005 11:47 pm

Thank you Tracy..
Can it Be any smaller?

Audrey · Post by **Audrey** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 12:13 am

Anyone else there at the time I am will most certainly be my guest one evening for dinner in that lovely restaurant made in the church....

Tracy can do dishes or maybe bus a table or two to lend a hand.... This is because I intend to steal her traveler's checks to pay for the dinners of my guests....

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 12:21 am

Forgive her Lizzie...for she knows not what she speaketh.

Tracy...

theebmonique · Post by **theebmonique** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 12:22 am

OK...is this better ?...LOL

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 12:25 am

Thanks for the picture

augusta · Post by **augusta** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 1:48 pm

Despite someone a while back posting to the contrary, it is very easy to find Lizzie's Swansea farm. I think there are some photos of it my husband took on this website in the photo gallery.

I think the address is 1205 Gardner's Neck Road. You just have to watch which Gardner's Neck Road you're on. There's a second one that's called something like "New Gardner's Neck Road".

If you go to http://www.yahoomaps.com and type in that you're leaving from Fall River and going to 1205 Gardener's Neck Road in Swansea, they'll start you from like the center of Fall River and give you a little map that's highlighted with your route + printed directions ("turn right here; turn left here...). You do have to register now if you use the yahoo maps site, but they don't send you any junk or anything - it's still free.

(If the address is not right, look in Rebello.)

doug65oh · Post by **doug65oh** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 3:37 pm

Wow... it's not far from the house, either. (Roughly a ten minute drive, just less than five miles from the looks of things.)

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 5:26 pm

viewtopic.php?t=66&highlight=gardners+neck

Directions.

Allen · Post by **Allen** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:17 pm

I have used yahoo driving directions, that is how I got to Fall River

.We drove there both times straight through. I like the driving directions on this site better.

http://www.switchboard.com/

I took both sets of directions with me the first time, being afraid of getting lost two sets of directions are better than one

, and I found the ones from this site easier to follow.

Audrey · Post by **Audrey** » Fri Feb 04, 2005 9:44 pm

I prefer to rely on stopping to ask for help! I printed some driving directions once and couldn't make head or tails of them!

Thayne's X-Car had this dreadful thing that you could program an address in to and it would dare to tell you things like "turn right at the nexr intersection". If you saw a lovely coffee shop before the next intersection and turned in to that instead it would say "you have made an incorrect turn" or worst of all... "You have made a navigational error!"

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Sat Feb 05, 2005 5:36 am

The textual directions I posted at the earlier link were from Len Rebello and are helpful I think because they give local landmarks.

When our brother visits, Stef has been known to set his GPS "voice" to Japanese and we laugh happily on the way to Universal City Walk!

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Wed Feb 09, 2005 7:10 pm

Augusta, our member, wanted anyone who needed it, to be able to get a map beforehand.

She has purchased from this site, and likes it- passing it on here:

http://www.travelguidewarehouse.com/map ... nder_c.htm

mbhenty · Post by **mbhenty** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 8:47 pm

mbhenty · Post by **mbhenty** » Thu Apr 20, 2006 9:22 pm

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 5:10 am

Wow! Could they BE any bigger?

Anyway, joking aside. These are wonderful pictures! You know The Hatchet accepts pictures? Maybe you could get with the Editor about some local photologue?

Thanks for these! It certainly looks like Spring!

I have re-sized them, if you don't mind.

These are mbhenty's pictures :

mbhenty · Post by **mbhenty** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:02 am

mbhenty · Post by **mbhenty** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:03 am

edit. Sorry, computer problems, don't punch your keyboard.

mbhenty · Post by **mbhenty** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:04 am

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Mon Apr 24, 2006 11:37 am

Thanks for letting me know if they are *fuzzy.*
It's probably because of the difference in computers and programs and the fact that you are showing them at file size 800k whereas I'm reproducing them at file size 100k.

If everyone sees them as *fuzzy* please let me know?

mbhenty · Post by **mbhenty** » Wed Jun 25, 2008 6:08 pm

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:33 am

Maybe they'll find a hatchet up there.

mbhenty · Post by **mbhenty** » Thu Jun 26, 2008 9:36 am

Kat · Post by **Kat** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 2:47 am

Thanks for the pics MB!
Are you itching to get up there?
I'm one who loves to watch that stuff being done.

mbhenty · Post by **mbhenty** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:23 am

mbhenty · Post by **mbhenty** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:22 am

mbhenty · Post by **mbhenty** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 6:28 pm

Harry · Post by **Harry** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 8:38 pm

Ugh! Too much of a contrast in colors. The black roof looked better.

And the doors I'll never get used to. Double ugh!

Constantine · Post by **Constantine** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 9:38 pm

Not authentic, I suppose, but I kind of like it, actually.

mbhenty · Post by **mbhenty** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:15 pm

Constantine · Post by **Constantine** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:20 pm

I still kind of like it.

And how do you know that such color contrasts are necessarily "inauthentic"? Surely there were people even then who had tastes that were off the beaten track.

mbhenty · Post by **mbhenty** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 10:41 pm

mbhenty · Post by **mbhenty** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:14 pm

Constantine · Post by **Constantine** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:19 pm

Yeah, unless.

I still kind of like it. Sorry.

mbhenty · Post by **mbhenty** » Fri Jun 27, 2008 11:29 pm

mbhenty · Post by **mbhenty** » Sat Jun 28, 2008 10:30 am