August 10, 2008 St James and Jean Bonnet

This is a picture of the church we attended on Sunday, St James Episcopal Church in Bedford. Actually this is not the first time we have attended services there. About 16 or 17 years ago, we came to services and entered just as everyone was coming back from communion. Here they had never changed the sign out front to reflect he changed time of service. (We were invited back to service later in the day as they were having a blessing of the animals, which we did attend.) This time however, all was as advertised and we were able to worship and have fellowship during coffee hour.






For lunch we went to the famous Jean Bonnet Tavern, which dates from the 1760’s and has a reputation of being haunted. In its early history it was used as a court and the condemned were immediately taken outside and hung. George Washington was a visitor there. Today we opted to eat outside as it was a beautiful day, no humidity. Our waitress kindly let David explore the building and he got pictures of the tavern, dining rooms and bedrooms, as this is also a B and B.









I loved the tromp le oil painting.






Bedrooms










The innkeepers even have a colonial garden in keeping with the period of the building.




And there were chickens and goats too. Some ladies had bought goat feed at the little reconstructed log cabin, now used as a gift shop. A couple of the goats wanted nothing to do with her; I suggested it may have been because she had on a red shirt. ( How did I know! But it sounded good to me.) So she handed me her bag of sweet feed and said I should try. The goats had no qualms eating from my hand. They had such gentle muzzles and were quite sweet.