Sunday, January 9, 2011

The Challenge is ON!


So I've given myself until the end of January to finish our 2010 family album. So far, I've gone through the pictures and made a list of the pages I'd plan on completing.  With the completing of these pages, I'm just about done with October.  A little background:  Purgatory Chasm was one of the destinations of the road trips my dad loved to take us on.  All I remember is that it seemed to take forever to drive there from Marshfield...and now that I know where Purgatory Chasm IS (Sutton, MA), I know that it DID take forever.  I'd say, from Marshfield...in the 60s...probably a minimum of 2 hours, maybe longer.  But I remember it as being a very magical place...a geological formation (dad loved his geological maps) that left a huge gash in the landscape filled with boulders and caves...and a trail going through the center of it.  I also remember a simple playground that had great swings (these seem to have disappeared).  Sutton is about 45 minutes from here in Attleboro and we managed to take Katy to Purgatory Chasm when she was little...she managed to get sick about halfway into the trail and poor Kirk ended up carrying her all the way out.  My goal is that sometime in the next decade, we actually walk the entire trail through the Chasm like we use to do with my dad!  Enjoy the pages...and wish me luck with my album challenge!

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