| s/y Nine of Cups Grey Towers National Historic Site - Pennsylvania August 2012 |
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| We'd never heard of Grey Towers before, so when we saw it on the map as a national historic site, we just had to stop. |
| The day was hot, so we curtailed our visit to a tour of the grounds and a cursory glance. This area of Pennsylvania around Milford is hilly and forested. We were in a hurry, however, to get to our campground in the Promised Land! |
| Grey Towers is the ancestral home of Gifford Pinchot, first chief of the US Forest Service and twice Governor of Pennsylvania. Today Grey Towers serves as a conservation education and leadership center, with programs that interpret the lives of the Pinchot family. |
| We were free to wander the grounds at will and they were absolutely beautiful. A tour of the "castle", however, incurred a fee, so we opted out. We certainly did like the big turkey statues. |
| There's a moat with a lily pond in front of the mansion complete with frogs. |
