Cape Cod

We got up early in order to get to our ferry from Martha's Vineyard to the mainland of Cape Cod. After a conference about our itinerary, we decided to drop a couple of detours in favor of the Heritage Gardens and Museum in Sandwich. It was an excellent decision.

The Gardens were established by the founder of the Lilly pharmaceutical empire, who apparently had a lot of time and money to indulge his various passions for gardens, cars, toy soldiers, American art and crafts, and carved birds. Our first stop was the car museum, of which both the cars and the building they were in were interesting.





About this point Martha commented that perhaps the Lillys had not realized that they might do more people more good by spending some of the




We got a quick bit at the Museum cafe, and walked through the gardens to the windmill, and then to the art museum.





One stop was at the art museum, built in the style of a barn. It featured an exhibit of tombstone rubbings of early graves in the area.

The next building housed a carousel and another museum, this one containing various media, including scrimshaw, wood carving, and a wonderful flag made of discarded plastic.





The merry-go-round had it's own spare hare.



Very, very cool.

Then it was back outside for the loop back to the entrance.

A creeping cypress above, a silk tree with flowers like silk fringe below.

A tulip tree -- they really look like tulips.










One of the features of the gardens is this sculpture/waterfall. It starts near the entrance, with a long, slender pool on the walk, which juts out and away past a drop-off, and continues out in the air. The water travels from the walkway across the long basin, and falls through the air to a pool below some distance away. It has a very different effect in each area viewed.






The JFK Museum in Hyannis is quite small, and more of a video/photo album, with everything from TV shows of the day, to audio clips of speeches, to family photos.

A recent addition.

Martha skipped the JFK Museum in favor of catching a few rays in the park next door.

After the JFK Museum, we made a stop at the Cape Cod Potato Chip Factory, mentioned in our guidebook. The building had no sign outside, and no photos inside, but we did get our free samples and a couple of bags to go....and then it was off to Yarmouth for the night.