September 14, 2012 - Gillette Castle, East Haddam, CT

I don't even know where to begin writing about today's "adventure" exploring Gillette Castle. 

 

It was fantastic, fascinating, spectacular....I could go on and on but the truth is I don't have the time or words tonight to adequately detail everything we saw and learned about Gillette Castle, William Gillette and Sherlock Holmes. (Orson Welles said it best "It is too little to say William Gillette resembled Sherlock Holmes.  Sherlock Holmes looks exactly like William Gillette.")  Which means that I am going to attach links to websites and our pictures and, hopefully, in the near future, do justice to writing about today's "adventure"!

But first, I must tell you about the most delightful people me met when they parked their "clone" of our yellow jeep wrangler in front of ours in the parking lot of Gillette Mansion. 

They are Harold "Tyke" Niver and his vivacious wife Theodora "Teddie".  We may not have been lucky yesterday but today we "Hit the Jackpot"!  Tyke and Teddie "are" William Gillette and his beloved wife Helen!  Now, instead of me trying to explain it all now, you need to click on the link below the pictures for details. 

 

http://www.sherlockholmesct.com/home.html

 

 

And I promise you it will be worth your while to click on the links in the website.  Then you will truly understand how amazing our day was and how fun and fascinating the Niver's are!  Our luck was still with us after we left the Castle and stopped to do a short hike to William Gillette's railroad tunnel that Teddie had told me about.  Guess who was there with their adorable dog...yes, Tyke and Teddie!  I don't know how long we all stood there and talked some more...at least 30-60 minutes!  And we could have talked for hours but, alas, all good things must come to an end and we all had to "move on".

 

 

 

Click on the link for Gillette Castle State Park: 

 

 http://www.ct.gov/dep/cwp/view.aspa=2716&q=325204&depNav_GID=1650 



 

 

Click on the links below to see our pictures!  Again, definitely worth it!

 

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