MY ANCESTOR ON TV.

Earlier tonight I was watching the Chronicle program on WCVB Channel

5 in Boston. It often does shows on the out of the way and little known

places in New England and tonight the entire half hour was devoted to 

the Bay Circuit Trail, a 200 mile long network that runs around the outskirts

of Boston from Newburyport on the North Shore to Duxbury on the

South Shore. Since I have gotten  into taking long walks I'm always looking

for new places to go and take photos so I watched the show in hopes of

picking up a few suggestions for places on this end.

Then the narrator said four words, "Holt Hill in Andover" and  the genealogist

side of me focused. In turns out that the highest point in Essex County in 

Massachusetts is Holt's Hill, located in the Ward Reservation in Andover.

They showed a shot of an old house with a sign on it with the name "Nicholas

Holt"

Nicholas Holt of Andover is my 9x great grandfather.   

The Hill has a beautiful view of the area and there's Solstice Stones at the 

summit of the Hill, You can see a shot of them at the Ward Reservation

website.

While I was googling about Holt Hill I also found the Early Records of the

Holt Family of Andover - Annotated   site.That should prove very 

helpful in my research.

It just goes to show that you never can tell where an ancestor will turn up!.