And then back to a friend?

— Photo by Mstrsail

“What good is a friend if you can’t make an enemy of him?’’

— William Hooker Gillette (1853-1937) an innovative and once famous American actor-manager, playwright, and stage-manager, in the late best remembered for portraying Sherlock Holmes.

He is best known now for the bizarre and ingenious Gillette Castle in Lyme, Conn., part of Gillette Castle State Park, which straddles the towns of East Haddam and Lyme. The castle sits high above the Connecticut River. The castle was originally a private residence commissioned and designed by Gillette. It has many strange features and is well worth a visit.