Thomas Paine's Cottage

I myself do not know how to identify antique furniture, Gus. Hemingway's father was a well-to-do physician and probably owned some nice stuff.

It appears to me that you live in a rather nice neighborhood, wandel -- rubbing shoulders with the Hemingways and all that.

I would imagine if I entered such a neighborhood the alarms would sound rather quickly.

Here's a view of some of Galena's buildings. Click on the photo for some close examination of the structures. (Of course the English are probably laughing at this)
http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/4/4f/Galena_Il_Galena_Historic_District_Downtown1.JPG

Madame de Pompadour's, and later Marie Antoinette's, private hide away "Petite Trianon":

Ahhhhhhhhhhhh, thanks for thinking of that..

Yes, nothing like an appropriately proportioned palace to make one feel at home.

I have a charming old post card of it somewhere.. (not that I've been there.)

Pearl Buck's home in Hillsboro WV. We visited there and toured the premises the summer we lived in West Virginia in 1984.



Pearl Buck was one of my very favorite authors when I was a child and teen, and one who expanded my horizons and helped me see a piece of the world through the eyes of people very different from myself but whom I came to feel that I knew and understood. Visiting here was a special treat for me.

I liked the John Brown stuff. He was my great great uncle.

Stephen King's house in Bangor Maine (I used to live in walking distance of this neighborhood and would see Stephen King and his wife at little league games - very nice people (those are iron spiders and bats on his gates)