Fitchburg and the Listless Bucket

Spent some time on a cold, clear winter day looking around Fitchburg. An intriguing town. Just got the barest glimpse of it, must go back for more. The Nashua River runs through and powered the 19th century mills.  Like Worcester, Fitchburg was more an engineering/metal manufacturing town (guns, tools, machinery) than a textile town like, say, Lowell was. Or Biddeford, Maine. Fitchburg would have had a significant French Canadian population, since Quebec from the 1860s through the 1950s tended to export its surplus farm population south to the industrial centers of New England. While I was at the Macdowell Colony in the 1990s,, another colonist,  the architectural photographer Cervin Robinson  Cervin was driving south from New Hampshire every day in his Porsche (was it a Speedster?) to shoot Fitchburg. I plan to return. Meanwhile, here are some other towns AL has explored. They are mostly on no one's bucket list, but we never much related to the bucket list. Anyway it seems that the best places to go are most often the places you never heard of until you got there.

Brunswick Maine. Ottawa, Kansas.  Ottawa, Kansas (again)  Clayton New Mexico and and the Hi-Lo Country.  Montreal.  Winnipeg, Manitoba   Frankfurt, Germany.  Toronto.  Colorado Springs

Las Vegas, New Mexico. Bath, Maine   Moncton New Brunswick.  Paris.  Cimarron, New Mexico

Mora, New Mexico.  Eastern Townships, Quebec.