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May 23 - 1918 Left Thomaston 8.45. AM Burst tube 9 miles out. Foggy & cold Road good to Damariscotta Hotel Fiske looked good. Wiscasset 11.AM - Broke tube crossing hedge to Edgecomb to see Marie Antoinette house & round foot. Went on into country by horse. Gave $2. to Red Cross as he would not take any thing. House poor. Closed. Apparently nothing in it. Furniture dispersed long ago. Picked up by another in [[reli--?]] left at door of Miss F.A. Sortwall. Lovely house with usual woodwork - mantles going around corners. Oval stairs to top Oval dome. Palladian window each floor Town hall red brick [[?]] Curved in arch with Central Georgian door & recessed windows. Mrs Belhes house very large & interesting. One
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Nickels-Sortwell house still a tourist attraction in Wiscasset.