It's a great town...have fun. Lots of history, great food, great atmosphere,
and until August 1st, a great baseball team.

You really should try to get to a game at Fenway if they're in town. It's an
awesome ballpark...if you like baseball. Another nice place for lunch is the
Durgin Park Oyster Bar. It's in Quincy Market just a block or so from the
Union Oyster House. Make sure you go downstairs to the Oyster Bar, and not
up to the main restaurant (which is good also).

The aquarium is a nice couple of hours as well.

--Mike

"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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Headed out to Boston/Salem/Topsfield next week.

Will wander around where my Puritan ancestors first set up shop in
America. (ggggggg...Great Grandpa Zaccheus' house is on the national
register of historic places in Topsfield, as is another
gggggggg....grandfather's barn)

Going to visit Old Ironsides (she's moored in Boston, right?)

Since I seldom get back to the right hand side of the country, are
there any other "must sees" during a few days in Boston?

Bert Robbins wrote:


When we were up at The Farm, Rye NH, in Aug 2005 we went to Plymouth and
saw the rock. My wife the Geologist/Chemist wasn't impressed and thought
it looked like a very large river rock. I insisted on taking a picture
of the wife and kids and The Rock.

Plymouth Rock might be a good one. Thanks for the suggestion.
Too many things to see, and undoubtedly not enough time. :-)

Shortwave Sportfishing wrote:
On 22 Sep 2006 10:30:24 -0700, "Chuck Gould"
wrote:

Headed out to Boston/Salem/Topsfield next week.

Will wander around where my Puritan ancestors first set up shop in
America. (ggggggg...Great Grandpa Zaccheus' house is on the national
register of historic places in Topsfield, as is another
gggggggg....grandfather's barn)

Going to visit Old Ironsides (she's moored in Boston, right?)

Since I seldom get back to the right hand side of the country, are
there any other "must sees" during a few days in Boston?

Hey if you want and depending on when you are in the Salem area, let
me know and I'd be glad to come up and take you for a tour of Salem
and the surrounding area including Marblehead where the famous
painting "Spirit of '76" resides. I would love to hook up with you
and show you the sites where I grew up including where the keel of the
Constitution was layed. I can also show you where one of the more
infamous incidents in Marblehead history was accomplished - and to say
that I was involved in it, directly, would be an understatement. :)

In Salem, they've redone a lot of the downtown area, along with
Marblehead. If you want really good seafood in a harbor type
atmosphere, try The Barnicle in Marblehead. Right on the water, you
get a great view of some of the famous yacht clubs - Eastern,
Corinthian and up by Chandler Hovey park, George O'Day's castle and
the Boston Yacht Club.

I'll even buy dinner - or lunch - take your pick.

I'll need to check itinerary with the wife and the daughter, but dinner
might be fun. (Dutch).

"Harry Krause" wrote in message

I always have a good time in Boston. BTW, right across the street from the
Parker House is a very old cemetery with some interesting headstones,

.....not to mention King's Chapel.

and a few blocks away there's the Old Granary cemetery, with
the graves of John Hancock, Samuel Adams, Thomas Paine, and Paul Revere.

......and the Old South Meetinghouse, whence came all those riled up
"indians" who went and dumped all that tea in the harbor!

"Eisboch" wrote in message

Stop for lunch and a brew at the Union Oyster House.

.....or next door, at the Bell in Hand -- the oldest continuously operating
tavern in the US, dating to 1795.

" JimH" not telling you @ pffftt.com wrote in message

Don't forget a lunch at the original Cheers bar!

This was the Bull and Finch, a great place in the basement of the Hampshire
House, on Beacon near Arlington. Then it was used as a model for Cheers,
and got "discovered". :-(

"Chuck Gould" wrote in message

A couple days in Boston, a couple of days in Salem and Topsfield,

If Boston time is constrained, a combo of the Freedom Trail plus a Duck Tour
will really increase your bang for the buck. Alternatively, a nice walk
around the Common, Public Garden, and Beacon Hill would be a really pleasant
couple of hours and wrap in a lot of history, too.

"MGG" wrote in message
t...
...Plymouth where you can stand in awe of the famous Plymouth Rock.
:-)

It just looks so much bigger on the postcards. :-

--Mike



It does.

Contrary to folklore, the Pilgrims did not first set foot on land at
Plymouth.
They first landed at the tip of Cape Cod at what was to become Provincetown.
A group of men were sent out in the jonboat to find a safe harbor further
into the bay.
They rowed the 23 or so miles across Cape Cod Bay, found (to be) Plymouth
Harbor, and rowed back to report their findings. Tough dudes and dudettes
in those days. The "rock" is the symbolic stepping stone in Plymouth.

Eisboch

"Chuck Gould" wrote in message
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Bert Robbins wrote:


When we were up at The Farm, Rye NH, in Aug 2005 we went to Plymouth and
saw the rock. My wife the Geologist/Chemist wasn't impressed and thought
it looked like a very large river rock. I insisted on taking a picture
of the wife and kids and The Rock.

Plymouth Rock might be a good one. Thanks for the suggestion.
Too many things to see, and undoubtedly not enough time. :-)


They are not even sure it is the correct rock, and it has been moved over
the years. We actually enjoyed the tour of the Ocean Spray Cranberry
headquarters and their museum / display. Plymouth Plantation was under
whelming. The Red Line tour of Boston is good. Is a Red painted line, and
walkable. At least I remember it to be red.

"Calif Bill" wrote in message news:ZxnRg.431

They are not even sure it is the correct rock, and it has been moved over
the years.

It has certainly been moved, broken in two, repaired, relocated, buried in a
landfill pier, recovered, chiseled down in size by souvenir hunters and, in
time, revered. Nathaniel Philbrick, in his history 'Mayflower', relates
what seems to be a well researched account of the rock from about 1741
onward. The crux is, of course, that the consideration that this is "the
rock" is based solely on the 1741 testimony of one Thomas Faunce, then aged
95, who claimed the rock was shown to him as the landing point by his
father, who had arrived in the colony in 1623. Civic leaders and civic
groups took it from there, and the legend of Plymouth Rock was off and
running. It may be true, and it may not. The story is only two steps
removed from a primary source, but those steps can loom huge.

In any event, even if the famed Plymouth Rock is the first footfall at the
Plymouth Colony, it certainly was not the place where the Pilgrim travellers
first set foot on New World soil. That, as another pointed out, was at
Provincetown.