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