The warm breezes of spring have yet to arrive, but there is great ardor and closeness to be found while exploring a few of these sites with a favorite companion. You can gaze out along Boston Harbor on a winter day, make figure-eights in Cambridge,…
Posts by guest blogger: Max Grinnell
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Greater Boston’s Hidden Art Galleries
Visitors to Boston will sing the praises of the Museum of Fine Arts, the Isabella Stewart Gardner, and the Institute of Contemporary Arts, among other fine institutions. But what of the area’s lesser-known galleries and creative art endeavors? There are many, and many of them…
A Day Spent at Old Sturbridge Village!
In the minds of some, thoughts of a living history museum might include butter churning, goats, and rides in horse-drawn carriages. True enough, Old Sturbridge Village in Sturbridge has all of these things, but in keeping with the “living” part of their name, they keep…
Out & About On Boston’s Waterfront!
Today, visitors to Boston can stand at the end of Long Wharf, and take in an expansive view of the Institute of Contemporary Art, the New England Aquarium, Logan Airport, and the slivers of sails that help push many of the leisure crafts around the…
Boston’s Scientific & Medical Innovation!
Boston is truly a city of medical and scientific superlatives: the first public smallpox inoculations (1721), America’s first Board of Health (1799), and the first organ transplant (1954). Today this legacy lives on in the groundbreaking work being done in places such as the Massachusetts…
Massachusetts Maritime Secrets
Most visitors to the State House located in Boston’s Beacon Hill will no doubt take sometime exploring the Hall of Flags or peering at the intricate details of the State House model, which stands in the entryway outside Doric Hall. There is one important decorative…