Old Park Street Church-view from Boston Commons
Shaw-54th Massachusetts Regiment Monument-First Colored Regiment-Fought in Civil War battle for Fort Wagner, South Carolina, made famous by movie "Glory".
Daniel Webster Statue on the grounds of Massachusetts State House. One of my favorite stories growing up was "The Devil and Daniel Webster."
Horace Mann-father of public education. If only his influence were felt in the South.The following grave markers are all in the Old Granary graveyard.
Grave site of those killed at Boston Massacre, the opening act of what became the American Revolution.
Samuel Adams. Father of the American Revolution. The firebrand patriot who spearheaded most of the agitation in Boston against imperial domination.
James Otis-The second leading firebrand of the Revolution.
John Hancock. As president of the Continental Congress, his would be the signature on the Declaration of Independence that the King George could read without his glasses.
Grave of Mary Goose, incorrectly thought of as the true Mother Goose. It would be the woman her husband married after her death that was the actual Mother Goose, whose singing of verses remembered from childhood to her grandchildren would be recorded and printed by her son-in-law to great success.
Dawes, who along with Paul Revere and Samuel Prescott made midnight rides to call the militia to arms to protect their hidden arms caches and prevent the capture of Hancock and Adams. Only Revere was captured by the British, when all three of them together ran into the British patrol, so he had to return to Boston on foot while the others escaped and rode on. But Dawes seemed to loose out in fame, because Longfellow like the rhyming possibilities of Revere apparently more than Dawes or Prescott. (As Prescott is a distance relative, I may be biased here.)
Paul Revere-The man remembered for the midnight ride. And really nice silverware.
Memorial to the Irish immigrants escaping the potato famine.
Old South Meeting House, where town meeting to large for Faneuil Hall were held. The protestors left from her to dump East India Company tea into harbor.
Old State House.
The marker in the street near the Old State House indicating where the men were killed during the Boston Massacre.
Faneuil Hall-The site of many town meetings and assemblies that eventually led to organized revolution. As was true then, still a great urban space. Wish we had more space like it in Tennessee.
The statue of Paul Revere sculpted by my ancestor Cyrus Dallin.
The Old North Church were two lanterns hung briefly to signal that British troops were moving by sea against the Concord supply sites.
An ironic billboard next to Fenway Park.
