June 5th, Touring Boston

We enjoyed the continental breakfast at the hotel and ran to our
trolley stop.  Our first destination was the Boston Tea Party museum, which was fantastic!  Our next stop from the Old Town Trolley was a 50 acre park knows as Boston Commons.  The  Commons is the oldest park in America dating from 1634.  It was a beautiful day to enjoy a stroll.  At Little Italy, after we toured Paul Revere's home we found one of many bakeries to enjoy a cannoli filled with cream and chocolate chips.  Ken tried the Boston Cream Pie...nice way to end an enjoyable day.

Boston Harbor

Ken partaking in the revolution and tossing one of the 342 crates of tea in the Boston Harbor.
This revolution took place Dec. 16, 1773 where over a million dollars of tea in today's money was destroyed.
Ken was given a card with a brief biography of an actual Tea Party protester and he was John Crane, the
colonist caper's lone casualty.  Crane was knocked unconscious by a falling tea crate.  The museum
was a delight.
 

 

Captain of  one of the three ships that were carrying the tea.

Ken at the Boston Frog Pond which is nestled in the heart of America's oldest public park, The Commons.

Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge across the Charles river in Boston spans over the locks and The Gridley Dam which is part of the popular Boston Harbor Walk.  The dam contains three individual locks, with one wider than the other two to accommodate the occasional passing of a larger vessel.  The purpose of the dam is to control the surface level of the river basin as well its tributary surfaces upstream, such as the Black Bay Fens and Muddy River and to prevent sea water from entering the Charles river freshwater basin during high tides.

 

Cheers Boston is the home of the Bull and Finch Pub where exterior shots for the TV show cheers were filmed.

Too bad we did not have to time to stop and check out the bar.

Massachusetts 5th Infantry Memorial in Boston Common which is the oldest park in the country.

This was the start of the Freedom Trail.  The "Common" has been used for many different purposes throughout its long history.  Until 1830, cattle grazed the Common, and until 1817, public hangings took place here.  British troops camped on

Boston Common prior to the Revolution and left from here to face colonial resistance at Lexington and

 Concord in April, 1775. 

On the night of April 18, 1775, silversmith Paul Revere' left his home pictured here, to ride to Lexington,

Massachusetts to warn Samuel Adams and John Hancock that British troops were marching to arrest them.