‘Sewn together’

— Photo by Staben

“America and I, the two of us

so sewn together that we both should

hang limp in rain, or whiplashed in storms,

wars and massacres.’’

— From “Leaving the Flag Out All Night,’’ by the late Napoleon St. Cyr, who was a poet as well as the publisher, editor and sole staff member of a literary magazine called The Small Pond Magazine of Literature, in Stratford, Conn.

Boothe Memorial Park and Museum, in Stratford, which owns it, Around 1914 two brothers, David Beach Boothe and Stephen Nichols Boothe, created the Boothe Memorial Museum, which has a collection of 20 architecturally unusual buildings. The structures include a carriage house, Americana Museum, miniature lighthouse, windmill, a clock tower museum, trolley station, chapel and a blacksmith shop.