Boston Homage Walk –
Part 2 – By Savvy Mom Ruth Paget
From
Boston Latin School, we walked to the Granary Burying Ground along the red
brick Freedom Trail.
The
Granary Burial Ground is the final resting place of Samuel Adams. He has a large headstone. Pebbles were placed on his headstone. I have always viewed him as “No more man.”
John
Hancock is buried here along with Ben Franklin’s parents, who taught Franklin
to be good at everything, including writing and scientific observation.
The
“real” mother goose is buried here as well according to guidebooks. I paid homage to her and thanked the writers
Perrault and the Brothers Grimm for collecting mother goose tales from all over
Europe.
From
the Granary Burying Ground, we went to the State House that was built after the
Revolution. We visited inside and out
and agreed that Massachusetts has nice architecture. Behind the State House is Beacon Hill with
its lovely homes illustrating the best in New England’s domestic architecture.
We
walked to the Boston Common park and finally rested on a park bench by a gazebo
with Ionic columns. Boston Common is the
oldest city park in the United States.
We
were hungry and planned out how to get to the Red T Train (subway) out to
Cambridge, so we could visit Harvard University.
We
went to a restaurant there that allowed you to pick out your burrito
ingredients. The burrito tasted great
with a Samuel Adams ale. I think the
name of the restaurant was The Thirsty Scholar, but I could be wrong.
After
lunch, we visited the Harvard Quads. In
the center of the main quad stands a statue of a seated John Harvard. The statue is bronze with shiny shoes.
The
legend has it that if you touch John Harvard’s shoes, you will gain admission
to Harvard one of our family friends told us.
I
went to a bookstore to buy souvenirs – two books. One was on the geometric art used in mosques
and the other was on the different elements used to make color pigments for
painting.
End
of Part 2.
To
be continued…
By
Ruth Paget, author of Eating Soup with Chopsticks and Marrying France
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