Wednesday, June 13, 2012


We in Boston at Fenway Park.  We also saw Boston Celtics stadium.   We drove in down town Boston where we were the only car on the street for two hours trying to find parking.  The streets a narrow, one way, one car wide, most streets have no lane markings so you drive where you want.  Many streets are blocked by taxies, buses, trucks or whatever.  People walk across even very busy multi lane streets anywhere in the block and the cars stop for them.  I followed behind comuter trains, it seems there are no rules.  What an experience. 


This is George Washinton's home in Boston.


Inside the North Chruch where Paul Revere put the lanterns in the steeple to warn the people the British were coming.  There are pews for families on the bottom and others sat in the balcony.  The Preacher stood on a raised platform at the front.  This is looking to the back. 


Old Ironsides is the second sailing ship we've been on this trip.  Quite a fighting vessel she was.  We took an all day tour of Boston.  Fun tour guides they were.  We spent two days here. 


Today were at Plymouth where the Mayflower is and Plymouth Rock where the Pilgrams landed and yes we went on her also.  This ship had a thirty man crew and one hundred and two passengers and all their stuff.  No room left. 


This is a Native Home that the Pilgrams would have seen when they came.  It is made of poles tied together with bark from the cedar trees.  It rained while we were there and it was warm and dry inside.  As many as fifteen family and some extended family would live in a three hole home like this.  Three hole meant they had three fires with three smoke holes in the roof. 


This young lady is sitting on the beds that went all around the house.  They would put many skins and blankets on them to make them soft and warm. 

This is a village of about thirty homes of the first settlers.  These homes are built with square cut lumber.  The sides have posts every five feet and five foot logs are split to make the siding.  In between the posts is a wall of mud.  The chimneys are of mud mixed with straw and covered with wood so they don't wash away.  Very crud they are.  Each home had the people that settled and built them.  They talked with you as if they were the people.  They answered you in the way they would have back then having no knowledge of modern times.  It was neat. 

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