A Sunday Drive in the Country...

When I was a kid, one of the days I most looked forward to were "Sundays". It was the day where my dad would take the family for a drive. Sometimes out to his parent's farm in Plover, other times to visit other realitives in the area and sometimes just driving and exploring the countrysides of Central Wisconsin and sometimes even further away through the state. I remember those drives as being such a nice way to end the weekends. So I decided to take a sunday drive myself yesterday and drove up to Waukesha and then just spent the day meandering along rustic roads in the country. A few photos (that I have included below... )helped me capture some of the day. What a nice sunday....

Warm thoughts for a good week to all.....

A quick back ground on a few of the 1st photos in this most recent post:
Genesee Depot (one of my favorite little towns in Wisconsin) in Waukesha county is on Hwy 83.

Genesee Depot was the home of "Alfred Lunt and Lynn Fountaine" who were the stars of Broadway back in the 1920s through the 1940s. They were America's first real "stars" and they lived in Genesee Depot, just outside of Waukesha and their home which they called "Ten Chimneys" is a magnificent estate on a quiet road in Genesee Depot. They lived in that home untill their deaths which if I remember correctly was sometime in the 1970s. I read a book about them and from that book I learned that some of broadway's and Hollywood's stars of those eras were entertained by the Lunts out there in Genesee Depot. People such as Noel Cowerd, Helen Hayes, Elisabeth Taylor, Katherin Hepburn....and more. All in my back yard.

If you google Lynn Fountaine or Alfred Lunt or even Ten Chimney's..there is tons of info on this very interesting couple.

A couple sites to check out if you want more info on this historic site and the two interesting people who called it their home for many years:

http://www.tenchimneys.org/index.php

http://www.medaloffreedom.com/AlfredLuntLynnFontanne.htm


I took a tour of their estate a few years ago after it was opened by the State of Wisconsin as a Historical site" and the estate is just as it was in that couple's heyday. Very majestic. And Genesee Depot is a very neat little village. Somewhere I wouldnt mind living....