After a long week in the lab and field (me) and in the Portsmouth City Attorney's Office (Mike), we spent the majority of the weekend in Newmarket, NH, at a friend's apartment to watch her wonderfully loving and friendly, superbly-behaved dog, Keeley (seen below).
We stayed over in the apartment Friday night, which was quite a luxury, as the apartment is located in one of the beautifully restored mill buildings on the Lamprey River, which runs into Great Bay. On Saturday morning, we started the day with a trip to The Big Bean, a great little bright-colored breakfast cafe on Main Street, where I ordered some eggs with asparagus, arugula, pancetta, and goat cheese (yum!!) and Mike had a delicious-looking fresh omelette.
Fr0m there, we went, with Keeley in tow, to the Newmarket Farmer's Marker at the Stone Church up the hill, where the highlights included the purchase of kale, some dark burgundy Lollo Rossa lettuce, and white turnips. Most significantly, however, was our extensive conversation with Dr. Tomato (aka Lord Duncan of Castle Anam Cara). We were given sage advice and eventually escaped with a warm invitation to visit his castle whenever we were in the area, which we may very well do (and which will undoubtedly inspire another blog post)!
After our purchases at the Newmarket Farmer's Market, we took Keeley along in the car to Portsmouth for more Saturday morning activities. Our first stop was at the Portsmouth Farmer's Market.
Though much bigger, the variety was about the same, so we ended up purchasing just another head of lettuce, some arugula, and a pound of local ground beef from Greenland, NH. Below are the combined purchases, along with some scapes from the Dover Community Garden that we just harvested!
We proceeded to the dog park, where Keeley met several friends, including a friendly pug, a fluffy Newfoundland, a Husky, and some other fun small dogs. We proceeded afterwards to walk around Portsmouth, out to Pierce Island, where a great view of the harbor can be seen.
Last on our tour of Portsmouth with Keeley-dog was a hop aboard a Piscataqua Gundalow. Though no longer used actively, the gundalow was once used extensively in the rivers and estuaries in the area as a flat-bottomed cargo barge. The barge was dependent on the rising and falling tides to travel, with lateen sails used for "help." The volunteers on the deck were extremely friendly in showing us the boat, and even poured buckets of saltwater over the deck of the boat to keep Keeley's feet from burning!
We left Portsmouth ever wiser, as occurs with the majority of our excursions. There is still much to explore, and explore we shall! See you soon to catch you up on the latter part of our day!
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