Historic New England — Local services in Dracut

No problem with what they do, but their membership is very difficult to take advantage of because of the varying opening times of their properties. Some are (paraphrasing) every third weekend between April and September and others Tuesdays only for one month of the year.

I was driving through Newburyport and remembered there was at least one site there mentioned in their booklet. I got off the highway and drove the seven miles to the c. 1715 Dole-Little House, because the booklet listed the dates June 3 and October 7. Little did I know that wasn’t “from” and “to”: THOSE ARE THE TWO DAYS IT IS OPEN, I discovered after calling the number listed.

My brother-in-law gifted a year’s membership to me for 2018, yet I didn’t get the opportunity to visit more than...