After the hubbub of Dayton, we spent a couple of days relaxing at a lovely state park on Brookville Lake, near Brookville, Indiana. During a little side trip, we discovered the little tourist town of Metamora. It is such a tourist town that it entirely shuts down on Monday and Tuesday. The shops are in individual buildings We were there on Monday and the only shop open was 'Grannie's Cookie Jars and Ice Cream Parlor'. Her husband makes the waffle cones on a little waffle iron. She has over 2400 different cookie jars and 1000 salt and pepper shakers. Built in the 1800's, the Whitewater Canal connecting Hagerstown, In, to Cincinnati ( approximately 101 miles) runs thru the town. A water-wheel powered grist mill that is still in operation, selling it's corn meal and flour only to tourists, once produced goods to be shipped via the canal. A horse-drawn canal boat now takes tourist on short rides. There are two interesting features of the canal. One is an 'aqueduct' which carries the canal water over a creek. I don't know why it's covered. The other interesting feature are the 'locks' required to compensate for different levels in the terrain, much like the Panama Canal locks. Except that these locks are very simple and hand operated by two men. They merely move the long 'bars' (heavy beams) to swing the lock doors open or closed. Tuesday we travelled thru Cincinnati to race horse country of Lexington, Kentucky, to visit my 2nd cousin whom we haven't seen in many years. He's a veterinarian for the race horses here. We're parked on his property amid gorgeous horse farms (his 50 acres fit right in). It's raining this morning but we'll get out and take pictures later. The countryside is breath-taking, but you'll have to wait for the next report.
Stay tuned.
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