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Published: June 13th 2009
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Boston really is a lovely city. I always thought it was meant to be like Melbourne but the truth is it is much prettier. The 1800s buildings on reclaimed land are something to see. Then there's still a fair spread of 1700 buildings in the Freedom Trail area of downtown, where the rebellion all started against the Brits. Among the highlights were a 90 minute volunteer led walk among the historical bits, a trip to Salem to see a witch trial reenactment and the old old port area, and wondering around the very posh Beacon Hill suburb. But the real highlight was a visit to th John F Kennedy Memorial Museum and Library. A fantastic display about his life, that filled in half a day very easily. On the way from Cape Cod we spent a few hours at Sandwich, the oldest settlement there and visited a glass museum that commemorates the glass factory based there for 60 years btwn 1830 - 1890 approximately. Very interesting. Unfortunately it was too wet to merit driving right around Cape Cod as we'd planned.
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