Boston Trip Day 8

Rented a car today for a quick overnight road trip. Our first stop was The National Plastics Museum in Leominster, Massachusetts. Apparently Leominster was an important town in the early development of the plastics industry, and was “the comb capital of the world.” The museum takes up three floors and alternates between serious educational material and displays that border on the bizarre. Next we had lunch at the The Village Spa in Gardner, where we also checked out a giant chair. We tried to check out the Toy Plane Museum in …, but it appears to be out of business. We went up an observation tower for a nice view of the surrounding mountain ranges, then headed into Shellburne to the Trolley Museum. It turns out the Trolley Museum is only open on Saturdays and Sundays, but there was a volunteer there working on painting their freight house and he was nice enough to show us around anyway. We got to tour the small museum there, ride the trolley, go through a caboose they’re working on restoring, and ride a pushcart. Really neat, and we pretty much got a private tour. After leaving Shellburne, we made a brief stop to see the Hoosac Tunnel, a train tunnel built in the mid to late 1800’s that is nearly 5 miles long! It’s also rumored to be haunted, but I sure didn’t see anything. After checking into our hotel, The Whitcomb Summit, we headed down the hill into North Adams where we had a fantastic dinner at Boston Seafood. I got the surf & turf, which was an 8oz Sirloin and Baked Stuffed Haddock for the bargain basement price of $13.99, and Shelly went with the Alaskan king crab legs — 1lb. for $19.99. If only seafood were always so cheap! I ate till I was ready to pop, then we went over to the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts for a screening of Roger Corman’s “X: The Man With X-ray Eyes” with a new soundtrack performed live by Pere Ubu. Pere Ubu played a dark, brooding set of songs highlighted by the addition of a theremin, which added a nice B movie horror/sci-fi touch.

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