Boston Day One

Boston Day One
Today was both interesting and educational. We took the ferry boat without the car to Boston from Salem. The boat ride was enjoyable and it sure beat having to drive and try to park in the city. This is not a place that you want to drive in and stay sane. When we went ashore we got on a tour trolley and went around the city. First with no stops with a delightful tour director and driver who was both a literature major and aspiring actor I think. He would quote poetry and plays to us as we drove and he gave us the history of the city.
We drove by “Old Ironsides “ the oldest ship in the US Navy and heard about the some 30 naval battles she had been in and never lost a one. Next it was to go around old Boston where Paul Revere worked and lived (he had 16or 18 children by two wives and was not the person who completed the ride on horseback). There were actually three riders who made the journey and it was a doctor who got there on horseback but it was Revere who some 80 years later was immortalized in a poem by Longfellow (?).
Later we went by Mass General Hospital the famous teaching arm of Harvard Univ. and then by Harvard and MIT. Wow, this city has more colleges and universities per square mile than anywhere.
Boston as you may know started as a shipping center and today it is a center of learning with over 60 colleges and universities and 250,000 students, finance, and some of the largest law firms in the world.
It was great to go by some of the haunts of Charles Webster (we ate at a seafood restaurant, called the Oyster House that is the oldest continuously operated restaurant in the US. Webster ate there along with JFK, and King Louis lived there for a while above the restaurant.
We went by the areas of Longfellow, David Frost, and the bar Cheers. The Boston Public Library (the oldest in the US) and quite a massive structure. For architecture the Trinity Church and the Church of Science were the most impressive in my opinion.
Everywhere things dated to the 1600’s and 1700’s and it was just most inspiring.
The Boston Commons and Boston Gardens make the central part of this city just unique as all great cities that recognize the importance of a great park. But this park was purchased by the city in the 1600’s.
Well we were tired from walking today as you can imagine but had a great time. So tomorrow is an off day to move the coach to a different campground and visit Bev’s cousin and his wife Chuck and Beverly. We will see her other cousin and Chuck’s twon David over the weekend.
That is not nearly all that we saw but just a sampling to make you all want to come and see it for yourselves.

1 Town Hall
2 Kings Chapel
3 Art in the Boston Gardens
4 Reflection of Trinity Church
5 South Church