Our day started with more beautiful views of the Vermont countryside. The leaves were just beginning to change so there wasn’t as much color as we had hoped, but it was still just lovely. We stopped at several overlooks along the way so we could get better pictures than driving by in the bus.
The highlight of the day was visiting Hildene, the home of Robert Todd Lincoln, Abraham Lincoln’s only child that survived to adulthood. I knew virtually nothing about him, but his story was very interesting. As it turned out, he was a lawyer like his father before him, and served in the cabinets of several different presidents. The house he built actually stayed in the family until 1975, when the granddaughter that lived there died. He does not have any known descendants still living. An interesting thing about the house, because it was in the family for so long, was that they showed different changes that were made over the decades with different generations living there. I loved that.
The view down on the farm from the backyard – I cannot remember how many hundreds of acres it was – that was part of Hildene. Just so pretty.
