All Aboard for a Trolley Tour!

All aboard !!!

"Clang, clang, clang goes the trolley..

ring, ring, ring goes the bell..."


Let's take a gander at historic old Boston

It's a warm sunny day
and we are all ready for a
trolley tour

Michael pays close attention

Bill (Ba-ba) is ready with his camera


Papa checks out the trolley route


A handsome young man fans
his Gamma

Rose Kennedy Park

103 rose bushes for the 103 years she lived

the "red" line..

sometimes brick sometimes paint..

you can follow this line all over town to historical

points of interest...

about "a three hour tour"

(walking)

the first obelisk in our nation..

sits atop "Bunker Hill"

U.S.S Constitution

from our point of view

2 pictures and one painting

found on the net

for

a better look

The 585 building.

Our trolley driver tells us the history of

the building that once stood on this spot...

with its 585 gal. vat holding molasses...

the old wooden vat got weaker and weaker over time...

mothers from around the neighborhood would send their

young children with tin cans or other kitchen vessels

to catch the molasses

that oozed from the sides of the giant leaking vat
until the day it finally let loose causing

all kinds of havoc and destruction...

sounded somewhat like a tsunami of molasses!

the old state house

Now, if you are wondering

why I have posted a picture of a new modern

concrete building sporting the sign of "Staples"...

turn your minds eye back some 300 years,

and if needing to squint

look and see an old building sporting the sign

for Ben Franklin's brother's newspaper printing shoppe...

"New England Courant"

the fourth newspaper in the colonies and the first

in Boston..

Here at the age of fifteen Benjamin became

an apprentice to his brother James..

wanting to write and yet knowing James would never allow such a thing

Benjamin would write letters to the paper at night

under the made up pen name of the widow

"Silence Dogood"

sneeking them under

his brothers shoppe door

in the dark of night...

these articles became extremely popular...

and after a long while

(16 letters in all)

Benjamin confessed to his brother

of the widows true identity...

where upon he was relentlessly scolded..

In 1723 Benjamin Franklin left this place ,

which is now

inhabited by the twentieth century ,

concrete and glass store

with a big red sign reading

"Staples".

Starbucks....my memory fades...

I have no recall why I took this picture!

Boston Common

a park owned by the people

Bostons slice of Broadway

Do you recognize this spot?

It has been reported by many sources

if on a site seeing trip do not waste

your time going "inside" the

real Cheers ...

for upon arrival

you will not recognize a thing..

"Cheers" was filmed on a set that looked

nothing akin to the inside of the

real bar..

excuse me, I should say

"b-ah"

extremely high rent area...

one elderly resident no longer drove a car

sold his parking "spot"

for a reported

$30,000..!

duck tours

they also go in the water!

Fenway,

we have been there

Boston Common from the other side

New State House

A statue to commemorate

Robert Gould Shaw

leader of the U.S. Civil War's

first all black volunteer company.

Matthew Brodrick portrayed him in the 1989 movie
"Glory"

up ahead we see on our right

the

Omni Parker Hotel

were JFK proposed marrige to his future wife

Jaquoline

Here we come upon the meeting house,

were once a crowd gathered

and dirived a plan...

which concluded in what is now a famous act

in the beginnings of our nations

indepence from

the tyranical crown of England!

A ship was docked not far from here

holding in its stores

"tea"

that if brought out onto the docks,

the colonies would carry the burden of the tax..

"What better way?"

thought these

Yankee Doodle Dandies
"to show our disdain and addement thoughts

on taxation without representation

than to dump

ALL that TEA

into

the bay!"

A few of them, already into their cups

(pert near drunk)

painted themselves as Mohawk Indians

for disguise sake

and headed down these very streets

toward the wharf...

down the streets and around the same bends we travel..

(we pass a monument erected for the founder of the A.S.P.C.A.)

(some momento of the "Great underground dig")

Shhh...listen..

you might just be able to hear the ancient

echo's of the painted "war" parties whoops and far off clamor..

For long ago they walked to the wharf...

long ago a call for freedom began to be heard...

When our forefathers raised the cry

and dumped all that precious tea overboard!

At the "Boston Tea Party"

Here standing

in what was the area of the old wharf

is a new building of red brick...

With no name more fitting than

"Independence Wharf"

Many stories were heard that day..many sights observed..

I was not always fast enough with the camera or was sometimes

on the "wrong" side or behind someone with "big" hair...

I have not posted pictures of the old North Church or

of Paul Reveres house..Copps Hill Burying Grounds and so many more...

but, we will be here for a while to come so there is time...

Bill, Felice, Michael & our little Michael

at the Rose Kennedy Park.

looking at the fountain

fog rolls into the city

down on the wharf

Stopping at the state line on the way to Rye

Michael wakes up from his nap...at the rest stop

working on that wing...

Later that evening..

feeding the fish in the pond..

Still to come..

Michaels trip to the Fire station and

The Children's Discovery Museum..

this may be in a week or so..

due to family business that will have me away from

my stores of pictures.

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In the last posting

of July birthday's I was remiss in not remembering

the girl's Pap-paw Kadle..

this was called to my attention and I want to appologize..

it was not done intintionally..

we would celebrate his birthday on July 30th.

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Hug each other and be thankful

for all the wonderful , precious moments

we have together.

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