The History of St Patrick's Day and our trip to Sturbridge MA on an Antiques hunt. This story is dedicated to our "Mamma"

Saint Patrick was a Christian missionary and the Apostle of Ireland. He was born around 385 AD near Dumbarton in Scotland the son of a Roman nobleman. His real name is believed to have been Maewyn Succat; his baptismal name is Patricius. He was just 16 when his village was attacked. He was captured and sold into slavery in Ireland where he worked as a shepherd. After six years of being beaten and treated poorly, he escaped to Gaul (present day France). He returned to Ireland as a missionary where he is credited for converting the population to Catholicism.

Patrick was quite successful at winning converts. And this fact upset the Celtic Druids. Patrick was arrested several times, but escaped each time. He traveled throughout Ireland, establishing monasteries across the country. He also set up schools and churches which would aid him in his conversion of the Irish country to Christianity.

Some of this lore includes the belief that Patrick raised people from the dead. He also is said to have given a sermon from a hilltop that drove all the snakes from Ireland. Of course, no snakes were ever native to Ireland, and some people think this is a metaphor for the conversion of the pagans. Though originally a Catholic holy day, St. Patrick's Day has evolved into more of a secular holiday.

His mission in Ireland lasted for thirty years. After that time, Patrick retired to County Down. He died on March 17 in AD 461. That day has been commemorated as St. Patrick's Day ever since.




Enough history, I thought I would share our trip that we took to Sturbridge Massachusetts today going to all the wonderful antique shops located there.  We had a ball and found some treasures while we were there.  The weather in New England today was beautiful, the temp was almost 60 degrees.  Below are some pictures of the shops and the treasures we found and brought home with us.

Here I am just so happy to be here at Sturbridge. I couldn't believe my eyes.The weather was just perfect, sunny,blue sky and warm almost 60 degress.


This shop was FULL of Antiques. There must have been about 70 dealers. There were wooden
bowls, jugs, quilts, rolling pins, cookie cutters, old pictures, you named it, they had it!!!!!


Here is a FULL view of the shop!


Here we went to this very old mill and outside I saw this beautiful river and took two pictures,
it was breathtaking. Hearing the waterfall and the water rippling down and the sun beaming it was just soooo peaceful!


Here ia another view.


This shop had everything, from primitive to colonial.


Here is a very cute rabbit for Easter and some candles in the back.
Easter is very early this year it is April 4th!!!


I just loved this penny rug, so I thought you girls would enjoy seeing it.
The price I didn't enjoy seeing,LOL


Here is an Easter display which I thought was kind of cute.


I am going to do this, I love the saying because it is so true. I think you girls will agree with that. I found out that this was handmade. She did a great job on it!!!


Redware I just love. I collect yelloware and I will be collecting redware next.
I just love it. She had alot of pieces there.



Here is and old dress for the girls that LOVE prim and on the side of the picture
you will see Mr. Hillcrest looking at something, you are so handsome!!!! xoxox


This is the Handmaiden, cute shop. Had alot of curtains, table runners, Easter things out.
They had penny rugs, flowers, baskets, door knobs to light bulbs, salt houses, just about
anything and everything.


Here is the picture of the store.


This was another shop and I wanted to take a picture of everything they had. I could have
stayed in that store for hours but don't forget I had Mr. Hillcrest with me so I didn't want to stay to long because I think this was the 5th store we were at.


I really loved this!!


Also I loved this!!!


These saltbox houses were all together and they all light up but they didn't have them on!


This was a quaint shop.


That is their sign for the shop.


This I just loved. This is a very old, old baby carriage. When I touched it I
wondered have many babies were inside this and how many different woman used it.
Did it stay in the family? You mind thinks about all the history there is to one piece!


This was a wonderful shop, there was something there for everyone.


This is their sign outside and downstairs was a quaint place to eat!


This is one of our treasures that we bought. I LOVE it so much!!!!


This also was a great find. Mr. Hillcrest said to me tonight are you going to
make corn bread with this? We will have to wait and see!!!


This we fell in love with. You can read it and the date is 1851-1904 Boston, MA.
We were very happy to find this.It is salt glazed and I am tickled pink!!!!!!


This was a great find to, very heavy. It is a bird feeder and that is also salt glazed!!


So there you go my Prims. I hope you enjoyed the Irish History and our trip
together to Sturbridge. You all mean so much to me and all of you that leave me
such sweet comments. You girls rock and you all are the best.

Until till next time Prims, God Bless,
Big Hugs,
Tricia