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Kennebunkport, MA town . . . Kennebunkport

This hand carved welcoming sign, a mile from the tourist downtown.

Small bay off Atlantic Ocean, tide out, most of homes were large.

As I sat behind the wheel on the street aside the Post Office writing letters home, wearing same "work" clothes as my son cop walked by; the town so small the police actually foot patrol.

I'm in the parking lot for the downtown shops, a fee gatekeeper waited but the Sunday tourists all parked on side streets for free, me too.

1 October 2006, a Sunday morning, while the choir sang I wrote letters

The steeple had a large bell, but I arrived late and didn't hear it. Also missed the sermon and to take a photo of the old stain glass windows.

After many people left, I went inside; I was shocked as the first floor was divided into offices and classes rooms. I smiled at the ladies and wondered; then I saw a set of winding creaking stairs up to the second floor. The "church" had been remodeled to make a second floor for services.

Beautiful brick sidewalks, old buildings looked new. This main street went over the bay bridge and was the highway out of town, very busy.

I walked to mid-bridge just to snap photo of boats docked. This old fishing town now just does tourists' trade; homes became shops.

Nope, I didn't go inside to look at the trinkets. Junk stuff made in China just like most other tourist shops, New Orleans, Ozarks, Memphis, etc.

My souvenirs are my photos, rocks, dried plants, posters. Thou I would have ridden on this town tourist tour, but missed it.

Look very closely: a plastic hobbyhorse inside a metal wire horse.

Months later I learned that Ben & Jerry’s is a nation chain; when I saw this place I thought it just two ‘modern’ men.

A sign of these to come in the future to all gasoline pumps.

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