Stonehurst is one more lovely tiny community in Lunenburg County, Nova Scotia just a few miles from the town of Lunenburg Municipal District.
It’s known as a quiet little village that some have called “far from city life and off the beaten path.”
Yet it is notable for one strange thing which I discovered one day while watching a TV series starring Tom Selleck as a former police officer from Boston now a sheriff in a small town called, interestingly, Paradise.
What I noticed was that in the series the police officer called Jesse Stone lived in the red house at the end of the bridge in the photograph above. I had photographed without knowing that fact. I had been struck by the quiet beauty of the house. That’s why I photographed it.
The series is based on a series of detective novels written by Robert Parker. He wrote another detective series where the detective was called Spenser. Another TV series was made of that series of novels too.
I loved the little brightly coloured outhouse in the above photos. It reminded me of a series of outhouses in a book filled with photographs of outhouses by a Nova Scotia photographer called Sherman Hines.
In the Jessie Stone series of films, the detective was a recovering alcoholic with a dog that looked disappointingly at Stone when he slipped off the wagon.
Stonehurst in one sense does not seem very hospitable. Rightly or wrongly, I got the impressiosn that outsiders were not wanted here. Not sure why I felt that way, but I did. Maybe it just me.
The TV series was filmed mainly in the town of Lunenburg. I remember seeing photos of Selleck on the wall of our favorite restaurant in the town. I guess he ate there as well.
To tell you the truth, in previous vists to the small town I concentrated more on the view of the village from the other side of the only road leading into town. This day I noticed that this side was pretty nice too.
But I must admit in any direction particularly in autumn it looked good to me.
All in all, time spent in Stonehurst is time well spent.