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Hey hey USA - 6th October - the Kancamagus Highway, Lower Falls and an old homestead

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We walked from the covered bridge a little upstream to the Lower Falls area of the Swift River. It was such a wonderful, blue sky day that unsurprisingly this was busy with people. So again I concentrated on snapping the people rather than the landscape. Although, I maybe should have kept my distance, as the cough I was desperately trying to deny was getting worse. Back in the car and along the highway we came upon a preserved homestead and went to look around. It was also a handy place for lunch. The Russell-Colbath homestead was built in the early 1930's by Thomas Russell and his son Amzi. Thomas operated a local sawmill and there is a little copse we walked around where some of the trees that would have been used for lumber were still standing. Not far from the house, which was not open to the public at the time we were there, was a wonderful barn. This had been built recently to be used for events. There was also a tiny cemetery for the small population that had lived here. The