Part II, The Freedom Trail

-This is going to be a little long, but after all it is the Freedom Trail! So here's the start.
-Sherry, Mom and Carol in the Boston Commons.
-Just up from there the Shaw memorial with all of us ("Glory" fame).

-The State House, just across the road. Designed by Charles Bullfinch, Samuel Adams and Paul Revere laid the cornerstone.

-Park Street Church. "America" first sung here and many arguments raised.

-Granary Burying Ground next door where Samuel Adams...
-...and Paul Revere are both buried (along with John Hancock, Franklins, Paines and more).
King's Chapel, stronghold for loyalist opposition and a gravestone in the cemetery next to it inspired N. Hawthorne's "The Scarlet Letter."

-The cool mosaic of the first school site.

-Old South Meeting Hall, where citizens gathered to oppose British rule and where the Boston Tea Party was launched. It was here where it poured down, so we went for lunch to dry out. Still a bit wet and cold though...
-And I was in County Mayo area where a lot of these people came from. From the Dingle peninsula, next parish over is Boston!
-Me in Boston.

Old State House. Near where the Boston Massacre happened (Mr. John Adams representing) and...
-...where the first public reading of the Declaration of Independence happened on this porch.

-Sam Adams in front of Faneuil Hall...where I think he'd be happy to see...

-...it is an Assembly Area!
-Faneuil Hall, old market building and site of protests, declarations and general struggles.

-With the famous grasshopper weathervane above. You were supposed to know this was here to show you were a true Bostonian during the revolution.
-Quincy Market was open that day...lots of produce.
-And some art.
-Boston's oldest residential neighborhood on the North Italian side. Where I would live if I had to live in Boston.
-And site to some of the oldest buildings in the city, including Paul Revere's house.

-A statue to honor their neighborhood boy done good.
-On to the Old North Church, where I was excited to have pointed out this.
-And I was excited.
-Old North Church - "One if by land, Two if by Sea."
-Up to Copp's Burying Ground as I looked for all the different skulls, cherubs and willows on the gravestones.

We ended here since it was a ways to the Constitution and Bunker Hill - cold, wet and ready to go get the kids...