The Montague Bookmill

Hi GIrls!

Kae and I went to the Montague Bookmill in Montague, MA with some friends last weekend. The Bookmill is a used Bookstore and cafe in an old mill. According to the Bookmill's website:

"The Montague Bookmill is a used bookstore housed in an 1842 gristmill, set on the banks of the Sawmill River, a few miles north of Northampton and Amherst, Massachusetts. The original building was built on the banks of the Sawmill River in 1832. Alvah Stone was the first proprietor and it became known as Stone's Gristmill. Families from Montague would come by horse and buggy to get grain. Whole grain came in from railroad cars and was brought down to the mill to be ground into flour."

Now it's just a nice place to spend a Sunday afternoon. Usually we will pick out a book or two to look at while we're there (most people use it like a library, they read books there or bring their own and study) then get some lunch or a coffee and sit in the cafe and read and look out the window.


There are nice places to sit outside, too, if the weather allows for it, and that day it was pretty sunny, so we walked around for a bit.


We went around back, too, and stood on the porch and looked down at the river:




We had a good time, and want to take you girls there!

xo Tia Emily

Around Town

Hi Girls!

I just wanted to show you some pictures of Northampton, the town that Kae and I live in. It's a very small town: there are only 30,000 people who live here. That sounds like a lot, right? Well, think about the city you live in: Chicago has 7 million, or 7,000,000 people in it. Northampton doesn't have any trains for people to ride on, most people drive cars because there is plenty of space to drive and park them. We have just a few buses, and they are usually late and there is usually no one on them except for me and Kae and a few other people.

But before we go out, let's start at home. Here is a picture of Violet sitting out on the windowsill of our porch:


Here are some pictures of the downtown. This is the busiest part of town (think about how different this is form Michigan Avenue or Western, where you guys used to live):



CIty Hall and the Unitarian Meeting house

City Hall is the buliding on the left that looks like a castle. That's where the Mayor works and where some people get married and divorced. The Unitarian meeting house is like a Church for Unitarians, Unitarians believe in God if they want, or they can believe in something else. Unitarians are like Indiana State, they take anyone.

This is a picture of a restaurant inside an old railroad car. It's what people call a "greasy spoon," meaning the food is good but the sanitation is questionable.


Here is a couple of funny looking houses down the street from where we live:


And this is a picture of the graveyard by our house from the front of it. You guys saw the back of it when I put up the chicken clucking video:


So that's some pictures from around Northampton, how about you guys send me some pictures of your new house and neighborhood?

xo Tia Emily