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Some final photos from my trip to Boston:
Boston’s beautiful and historic Beacon Hill neighborhood. Among those who have lived there: Louisa May Alcott (author of “Little Women”) and U.S. presidential candidate John Kerry.
I visited Beacon Hill as part of a Boston by Foot tour — highly recommended!
The Granary Burying Ground, a small cemetery where many patriots from the Revolutionary War are buried. An unlikely legend has it that Mother Goose is also buried here.
These final photos are all from Boston’s lovely Public Garden, which is next to an older park, the Boston Common. There are a number of statues in the Garden, including one of George Washington (shown below).
And now back to your regularly scheduled royalty blog!
The Robert Gould Shaw and Massachusetts 54th Regiment Memorial. The story of this African-American regiment, which fought in the American Civil War, was told in the 1989 movie “Glory.” The monument, dedicated in 1897, was designed by Augustus Saint-Gaudens and Stanford White.
Above: Statue of U.S. statesman Alexander Hamilton, who was killed in a duel in 1804. This statue is located on the Commonwealth Avenue Mall.
Also on Commonwealth Avenue Mall: statue of John Glover, an American general in the Revolutionary War. I don’t really know anything about him; I just liked the statue. (There’s a rumor floating around on the Internet that he was a relative of Princess Diana, but I don’t know if it’s true.)
Listen my children and you shall hear of this statue… yes, it’s Paul Revere, the American silversmith best known for his midnight ride (in 1775) to warn Massachusetts colonists, “The British are coming” (according to legend, anyway; he probably didn’t really use those words). This statue is located in a peaceful little park called Paul Revere Mall.
There are many other statues and monuments in Boston… history is everywhere you look.
A few photos from my recent trip to Boston:
Above is Faneuil Hall. Out front is a statue of U.S. founding father Samuel Adams, who made speeches here before the American Revolution.
The grasshopper weathervane on the roof of Faneuil Hall. According to Wikipedia, it dates from 1742 and is made of solid copper covered with gold leaf, with glass doorknobs for eyes.
Above: Custom House Tower in Boston, built between 1913 and 1919 (the sources I checked give different dates). This was once the city's tallest building. The clock is 22 feet wide. The original custom house was built in 1849 (without the tower). The building is now a hotel.
Washington Street in Boston. The building with the clock is the Old South Meeting House, built in 1729. Colonists met here in 1773 to organize the tax protests that led to the Boston Tea Party and the American Revolution.
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