A few things I learned about Boston
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missizzyMost of it is on artificial land; they basically dumped land into the surrounding waters until they filled up. Both tour buses I was on spoke about the Boston Tea Party (without a mention of it actually protesting a corporate bailout, but I couldn't have expected that), when we passed the museum and recreated ships, but acknowledged that where it actually took place, there is now a big building. That's easily the most impressive thing I saw or heard the entire week.
Most of the inhabitants seem to view walk/don't walk signals as advisory. That's hardly unknown in other cities, but I noticed more of it in Boston.
There's a good amount of parkland. I'm kind of disappointed I didn't get around to exploring the Esplanade, but as well as the Greenway and the Common and Public Garden, I finally got to explore Christopher Columbus Park (right next to the Italian neighborhood, it should be noted), after gazing at in from my hotel room during the 2014 polar vortex, and I also went walking in the Back Bay Fens behind the Museum of Fine Art.
They seem to have had a lot of famous artists, especially Impressionists. John Singer Sargent had entire room in the museum dedicated to him, with The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit in the middle, flanked by the two vases from the painting.
It's another city of immigrants. More Irish potato famine refugees ended up there than in New York, the Italian presence still remains strong, and more recently, the Hispanic population is growing. The neighborhood I stayed in seemed heavily Hispanic. I also walked through their Chinatown, where I saw a bit of support for Taiwan.
Most of the inhabitants seem to view walk/don't walk signals as advisory. That's hardly unknown in other cities, but I noticed more of it in Boston.
There's a good amount of parkland. I'm kind of disappointed I didn't get around to exploring the Esplanade, but as well as the Greenway and the Common and Public Garden, I finally got to explore Christopher Columbus Park (right next to the Italian neighborhood, it should be noted), after gazing at in from my hotel room during the 2014 polar vortex, and I also went walking in the Back Bay Fens behind the Museum of Fine Art.
They seem to have had a lot of famous artists, especially Impressionists. John Singer Sargent had entire room in the museum dedicated to him, with The Daughters of Edward Darley Boit in the middle, flanked by the two vases from the painting.
It's another city of immigrants. More Irish potato famine refugees ended up there than in New York, the Italian presence still remains strong, and more recently, the Hispanic population is growing. The neighborhood I stayed in seemed heavily Hispanic. I also walked through their Chinatown, where I saw a bit of support for Taiwan.
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