BOSTON & PLYMOUTH, MA

September 22 through September 28, 2002

Our trip started with a five-day course in Pediatric Neurology in Cambridge, Sept. 23 through Sept. 26, six to ten hours each day.  That didn't leave much time for sight-seeing!  I had to “cut class” to see some of the sights in Boston.

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The Bell in Hand Tavern is certified the oldest tavern in the United States, established 1795

This is the Paul Revere House, restored to appear much as it did when Paul Revere lived there. 

The Old North Church is Boston's oldest church.  It is best known as the church where sexton Robert Newman hung two lanterns in the steeple on April 18, 1775 as a signal that the British were invading Lexington and Concord by sea.

Originally built in 1680, it is the oldest house in Boston.  Paul Revere owned the house for 30 years, but actually only lived there for 10 years.

This bell was cast by Paul Revere in 1804.

We stayed at a Bed & Breakfast in Cambridge about 3 blocks from my neurology meeting, called "Buttercup Bungalow", at 91 Charles Street.  The owner, Vanessa, went out of her way to make us feel at home!
Trevor is a neighborhood cat who kept Kathy company.

Kathy took the "T" (the subway) over to Harvard University and got these pictures.
Boston has some of the country's oldest cemeteries.   One we visited, near Boston Common, was the Old Granary Burying Ground, dating to 1660.  Among the notables buried there is Paul Revere and John Hancock

Also buried here are many of Ben Franklin's kin, though Ben Franklin himself is buried in Philadelphia.
When we left Boston on Saturday, September 28th, we headed toward Washington D.C. along the cost, passing through Plymouth, MA.
Plymouth, Massachusetts is, of course, where the Pilgrims landed in 1620.  Actually, they first landed on nearby Cape Cod, but they found it inhospitable, and sailed on to the coast.  The Mayflower II (right) is a reproduction of the original.

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