Traveling with Grace: Home Again
This week’s entry for our #TravelTuesday series: Traveling with Grace is short and sweet, detailing her final two days on the road in 1947. To read more of Grace’s travels, click here.
Wednesday Sept 4, 1947
Uniontown, Pennslvania
Weather: Delightful
Had lunch at the White Swan then rode out to Fort Necessity (French and Indian war) Where we saw the old stockade (1754) and visited the interesting old museum formerly a stage coach inn (1813) where we saw some memorabilia of Washington and a lot of quaint antiques including furniture (an old kitchen), amusing prints and old newspapers, porcelains, some Indian accessories, samplers, a sermon in pictures, old maps, hand woven pine tree coverlet, melodeon, crib, etc.
We rode around the Necessity State Park (beautiful picnic grounds), saw General Braddock’s grave and several other historical landmarks. Today the housekeeper brought me a big vase of lovely gladioli in variegated shades (I asked who sent them and she confessed being the donor but I have a suspicious that the manager wished to create a more favorable opinion). Had a delicious dinner at the Chalk Hill Hotel about 2 miles from Summit just like home food. Wish I had known about it sooner. Nice service and surroundings too.
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Thursday Sept 5, 1947
Uniontown to Baltimore
Weather: Perfect
Up early to a good start breakfast at Chalk Hill Hotel which was just as good as last night’s dinner. They also prepared us a nice lunch to eat on the way. On our way we noticed another attractive hotel at Gormley Lake. The scenery in Western MD ( Allegany Co.) is as beautiful in its way as any we have seen and makes us feel very proud of our state which really looks prosperous in this vicinity, particularly with its neat houses and gardens and flourishing farms. Grantsville to Frostburg are especially attractive and Cumberland very bustling. At Town Hill I noticed another lovely looking hotel on the brow of a mountain which I’d like to investigate at a future time.
In Hagerstown we stopped for a visit at a gem of an art museum picturesquely located in a little park with a lake in the foreground where we ate our lunch. Their collection boasts some first-rate French and American artists, a few Norwegian and several fine Rodin bronzes. Then on thru Frederick to Baltimore, arriving home about 5.
Thanks for reading “Traveling with Grace,” a series where we’re sharing (and annotating) posts from the travel diaries of Grace Amelia Hecht, native Baltimorean, b. 1897 and d. 1955. As mentioned in my introductory post transcription errors sometimes occur and I’ve made my best guesses where possible, denoted by [brackets]. Coming up next, the final diary from Grace we have in our collections, a 1950 visit overseas! – Rachel Kassman, marketing manager