Boston's Freedom Trail, 2

More from our day on Boston's Freedom Trail...

Outside the old state house, site of the 1770 Boston Massacre

Old state house

Moving right along, but still in the realm of heritage

Outside Faneuil Hall, the "Cradle of Liberty," with its
statue of Sam Adams

Would that more cities have these warnings

The sizeable Quincy Market, America's oldest market; alas, mostly
touristy crap, over-priced food

But interesting sculpture outside; part of Gillie and Marc's New England Zoo

More about them

A bit of the skyline

Rotunda inside the Market; 1828

Makes Disney look like a real bargain

Paul Revere House

Moving right along, in the North End now, but could 
have been--take away the ugly fire escapes--in Barcelona

Helpful model; the Italian part of town

My artsy-fartsy masterpiece: the Midnight Rider with the
Old North Church in the background

Really divine North End pizza?

Not a new sentiment around here

No end to the cemeteries

So we got as far as the river, within sight of the USS Constitution and the
Bunker Hill Monument...but decided we'd sort of already gotten the gist of
the rest of it and it was time to head back to the hotel; an interesting walk,
well worth the time

Boston's Freedom Trail, 1

September 23rd looked like a fine, bright, autumn day, so we decided to walk a bit of the historic city, specifically the Boston Freedom Trail. The "trail" courses through the downtown, starting at the Common, ends 2.5 miles later at the Bunker Hill Monument, and includes most of the city's historic sites and places. We took the Red Line from Quincy and then the aging Green Line to the park. Seems like the Green Line was aging even back in 1970.

In Boston Common, the Brewer Fountain

Follow the red brick line (which disappears from time
to time...have your phone with you)

The Massachusetts State House...a lot of history here

General Joe Hooker, commander of the Union army, routed
by Lee at Chancellorsville, resigned his position when Lincoln
refused him reinforcements as Lee was heading for Gettysburg

Park Street Church, birthplace of the emancipation movement,
site of William Lloyd Garrison's historic speech

The Trail takes in quite a number of cemeteries...

One of the more important ones

As evidenced by the several tour groups about

Midnight Rider

The original firebrand for Independence

Harmonia Rosales' Unbound, 2025, the Unitarian church tribute
to the enslaved...

King's Chapel, 1686, the first Church of England site
in America; after the Revolution became the first Unitarian
church in America; we still have fond memories of being
Unitarians in Dallas, long, long ago...

King's Chapel

Old City Hall

City Carpet, by Lilli Ann Killen Rosenberg, 1983, a sidewalk
mosaic on School Street, outside the old city hall: importantly
commemorates the original location of Boston Latin, America's
original public school...American history would be nearly
unimaginable without many of its alumni...

Still outside the old state house...further support for my contention
that, in time, all things become restaurants...see next

Site (and building) of the Old Corner Bookstore, America's
first bookstore and a major publisher...now a Chipotle...no extra
charge for the salmonella, e. coli, etc. Quod erat demonstrandum.

Nearby, part of the Irish immigrant sculpture group

Walking Down Amnesia Lane In Cambridge

Moving on to Boston....We lived in New England twice earlier in our lives...the summer of 1968, in New Haven, immediately upon getting married, and then the academic year of 1970-71, in Boston. Digging deeply into the Sherouse Family Digital Archives, I have recovered a variety of pix from those years, to accompany the account below of an afternoon visiting some old haunts in Dorchester and Cambridge.

Summer of 1968...we sold ice cream for Good Humor in New Haven
and environs...Vicki eventually got the West Haven route...driving a
standard transmission Jeep

And I got the downtown/Yale Bowl route; not our most glamorous
postings, but we made a ton of money to help us finish our undergraduate
studies; and worked 12 hours a day, six days a week for 3 and a half
months; and ate a lot of ice cream ("waste")

A year later, I was a graduate student at MIT, occasionally
exploring the northeast

Vicki taught at East Bridgewater HS, and we had a studio apartment
at 15 Beale St., in Dorchester, right by Ashmont Station (Red Line)

The kitchen; note bottle of Brouilly...some few items we still have

In the living/bedroom/study...a lot of this furniture followed us 
to Columbus, and beyond...

MIT rotunda then

The neighborhood

Departure...one of our first Adventures in Moving; to Columbus

Flash forward 56 years...Ashmont Station now

And 15 Beale St....much upgraded, the whole place relatively gentrified

After Dorchester, we checked into our hotel in Quincy and then
took the Red Line to Cambridge and Harvard Square, to check out
the Harvard Coop (bookstore), where I had invested heavily in
1970-71; the Red Line we found relatively unchanged...

Things have changed at the Coop, however; there are no text
books at the main Coop building; they are all in an annex down
the street; above, and in the next two pix, are the entirety of print
text books for the University and its affiliates...

Thus

And thus; that's it; things have changed

We spent a little time walking about the campus; remembering nothing...

But abiding by the rules

At length, we decided to walk to Kendall Square and MIT; here, some of the
resident Cambridge turkeys (look them up) come out to welcome us

Interesting buttressing

Pop-outs...MIT appears hemmed-in by such tech-corporate
giants; in my day there were mostly dead or dying factories

I was a major supporter of the MIT Coop too

We thought briefly about trying to find the philosophy department...
but it was late, and MIT is such a maze of buildings...and philosophy
and linguistics have merged and are probably somewhere else

So we settled, as the sun set, for a few pix to compare with 1970s'