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"Summer is the time when one sheds one's tensions with one's clothes, and the right kind of day is jeweled balm for the battered spirit. A few of those days and you can become drunk with the belief that all's right with the world."
Ada Louise Huxtable
A sunny Saturday spent by many children and parents at the Frog Pond within Boston Common in Boston.
Best viewed in large format.
Ben Franklin's Statue and a sign for Ruth's Chris Steak House. Boston does a good job of living side by side with its history.
In or about
the year of our Lord
One Thousand Six Hundred
thirty and four
the then present inhabitants
of the Town of Boston of whom
the Hon John Winthrop Esq
Gov of the Colony was Chiefe
did treat and agree with
Mr William Blackstone
for the purchase of his
Estate and any
Lands living within said
neck of Land called
Boston
after which purchase the
Town laid out a plan for
a trayning field for which ever
since and now is used for
that purpose and for
the feeding of cattell
Just a sign I found amusing. It is interesting the different approaches different cities take with their cemetaries. In Savannah, I passed through a cemetary that almost doubled as a dog park. In London, I passed a class of day care kids playing in a cemetary.
The Boston Freeom Trail - Never mind "follow the yellow brick road", for Boston's Freedom Trail, a 2 1/2 mile (4km) walk thru historic Boston, you need to follow the red line on the ground. The red line is painted in some places and red bricks in other places.
The patriot who placed the signal lanterns in the steeple of Old North Church for Paul Revere's midnight ride to Lexington and Concord
Copp's Hill Burying Ground - en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Copp's_Hill
Robert Gould Shaw was born in Boston on October 10, 1837. He died in action during the assault on Confederate Battery Wagner on July 18, 1863. He was born into a wealthy Boston family to abolitionist parents. The Shaws associated with such people as Ralph Waldo Emerson, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Harriet Beecher Stowe and famed orator Frederick Douglass who helped form the Fifty-fourth Massachusetts. His sons Lewis and Charles joined the regiment.