FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 30 — BOSTON, MA: 8am – 5pm

Live the human scale of the American Revolution during your day in Boston. Walk into History with a guided tour of the 2.5 mile Freedom Trail. Visit Boston’s historic neighborhoods, or shape a Massachusetts child’s future history with a day of voluntourism at Cradles to Crayons. Visit the Kennedy Library. Sample a historic slice of the region with a visit to Plymouth Rock. Travel to Revolutionary Concord and Lexington to walk in the footseps of local literary figures Thoreau, Alcott, Emerson, and Hawthorne.

Excursions / GENERAL INFO / WIKIPEDIA

»» Crystal Cruises’ Shore Excursions »»

»» Wikipedia: Boston »»

»» Wikipedia: Massachusetts »»

»» Boston Tea Party »»

Cultural Thoughts

»» “Old Ironsides”: the USS Constitution. The USS Constitution is the first U.S. commissioned naval armament “owned and operated by the U.S. Navy since 1797.”

»» USS Constitution (Wikipedia) »»

»» USS Constitution (Visitor’s site) »»

»» The USS Constitution Museum »»

»» Old South Meetinghouse: Boston Tea Party »»

»» Old North Church »»

»» The Freedom Trail Walking Path »»

»» Wikipedia: American Revolution »»

»» …Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots… »»

»» Wikipedia: Cuisine of New England »»

»» A reader's guide to literary Boston »»

»» And, not to be confused with the book The Literary Trail of Greater Boston, take a look at Boston.com’s “A Reader’s Guide to Literary Boston”. Tool around the Boston depicted in literature.