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BOSTON BY THE BOOK
Cultures collide on every corner in this East Coast gem.
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Boston boasts great eats and plenty of activities for history buffs. Photos courtesy Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau
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f you really want to know about a place, talk to the locals. I was introduced to Boston by a hard-boiled shamus named Spenser through the novels of his creator, Robert B. Parker. In Spenser’s Boston, it’s the wise-cracking private investigator who tells us: “Boston Garden. Singular, as is the Public Garden. Boston Common is also singular. Hayshakers from New York and Los Angeles are always looking ignorant by saying Boston Gardens and Boston Commons, and generally disgracing themselves in front of us Beantown sophisticates.” Such is Boston. Cultures collide on every corner.
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Highlights
Let’s start by walking the Freedom Trail, the best way to get to know Boston and experience its Revolutionary War landmarks: Faneuil Hall (the Cradle of Liberty) and Quincy Market (30 indoor/outdoor food merchants), the Old Corner Bookstore (constructed in 1718), the Old North Church (“One if by land, two if by sea”), the Paul Revere House and more. The Freedom Trail starts downtown on Charles Street at Boston Common, the nation’s first city park (1634). Once used for communal cattle grazing, the 50-acre Common is the perfect place to stage our assault on the
