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Most of our touristing was from buses like these . . .
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Ted Williams, Johnny Pesky, Bobby Doerr and Dom DiMaggio are Red Sox legends . .
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There are lots of colleges in Boston, including this one for Architecture
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Speaking of acrhitecture . . .
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It's been 40 years and they're still talking about this one
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That's the "new" Old South Church, a block up the street from the Boston Marathon finish line
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Across the street, Copley Square hosted a Farmers' Market
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And on the other side of Copley Square, the ornate Trinity Church, founded 1733, built 1891
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Copley was a famous portrait artist who moved to England in 1775 and never returned . .
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We drove up Beacon Street . . . where all the rich folk used to live
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The Massachusetts State House is on Beacon Street
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As you'd expect, there are monuments everywhere
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And a surprising number of parks and open spaces
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Some of the buildings are very interesting
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Paul Revere's house is quite small, and impossible to get a picture of
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The 2.5 mile Freedom Trail is marked with colored bricks, and connects 16 major historical sites
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A colonial chocolate shop - and how they processed chocolate back then
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On the 18th of April in '75 they hung those lanterns in the steeple of the Old North Church
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And Paul Revere went riding . . .
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The Copps Hill Burying Ground dates to 1647, and contains the graves of many early Bostonians
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Old Ironsides - the USS Constitution - is the oldest active-duty ship in the US Navy
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The hull isn't iron - but 3ft thick oak, and cannon balls couldn't penetrate
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The detail is pretty cool
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The ship goes into drydock in 2015 for a good cleaning and refurbishing
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There are almost 5 miles of ropes in the rigging . . .
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The crew is about 60 active-duty Navy, a choice assignment
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From the forthcoming "My 7 Seconds Before the Mast" . . .
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The old US Custom House and Tower is now a Mariott Hotel
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The Charles River is big and broad and, they say, MUCH cleaner than it used to be
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The John Hancock Tower (left) is Boston's tallest building.
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We were a little late for any blooms at Boston Public Garden
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Another of Boston's famed colleges . . with a student reporting for class
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With a name like "Five Napkin Burger" we shoulda gone back . . . .
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We had lunch at the famed Quincy Market
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It's three or four huge buildings with all kinds of stuff for sale, indoors and out
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One building is a massive food court, with everything edible imaginable
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They didn't know our names!
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Bet a lot of folks never look up to see that spectacular dome
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One of Boston's narrower streets . . .
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The Bunker Hill Monument marks the site of the battle, and is actually on Breed's Hill
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Judy cliimbed all 294 steps to the top
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The views are spectacular - that's Old Ironsides on the right, about 3 o'clock
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We drove over, around and under that bridge several times . . .
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Squirrel!
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Part of one tour was a ride on one of Boston's ducks, those amphibious tourist bus-boats so common these days
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We took the ride because it was included in our package . . .
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That's the USS Constitution from the water, with the Bunker Hill Monument behind
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That's the yacht that almost ran over our duck
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From the water, the Old North Church on the right, the Custom House Tower on the left . . .
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There are still a few sailing ships around . . . .
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A mountain of road salt waiting for a New England winter . . . .
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We drove through Boston's notorious "Big Dig" tunnel a couple of times . . .
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Some storage buildings show imagination
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Some show creativity
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We drove into Quincy MA to visit sites associated with the two Adams presidents
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A National Park Service trolley took us to John and Abigale Adams first very humble home
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Their second home was undergoing restoration and not very visible. It's where John Quincy was born
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The highlight was "The Old House", built in 1831, and occupied by four generations of Adams' up 'til 1927.
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No photos in the buildings, so we settled for the gardens
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Quincy Adams was an avid gardener, and took much pride in his garden
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The stone building on the left is a library built in 1870 by one of the Adams family to house the family's books and papers
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We purloined this picture of the library's impressive interior from the internet
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The JFK Presidential Library and Museum is a striking building, designed by famous architect I. M. Pei
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We entered the museum right behind a large tour group
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A big part of the museum focused on the 1960 election campaign
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There were mockups of the TV debate studio
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And Walter Cronkite's election night desk
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Sometimes we tagged along with the tour group . . .
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Like other Presidential museums, lots of displays of gifts given the Kennedys
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A special Superman comic featuring JFK was issued after his death at the request of LBJ
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Judy took this picture before we saw the sign that said don't take pictures here
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We were allowed this picture of the artist's studio as she worked on that painting
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The JFK musuem had the smallest replica of the Oval Office that we have seen, set up as if for a Presidental TV address
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The Jackie wing featured these trompe l'oeil closets flanking a real dress.
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The museum features a marvelous view of Boton harbor from an atrium that also displays some awards given JFK
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JFK's personal sailboat "the Victura" graces the lawn outside the library
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One last view of the Boston skyline from the JFK library
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As Hallowe'en approaches (a month away!!!) we end here