Boston, January 14-16, 2023

Posted: June 29th, 2023 | Filed under: Out Of Town

January 14, 2023
Drove up during the day and ate dinner in the Seaport District, which has grown a lot since we were there in 2010:

January 15, 2023
Walked the entirety of The Freedom Trail in the cold! Bunker Hill in Charlestown:

USS Constitution:

Copp’s Hill Burying Ground in the North End:

Granary Burying Ground:

The trail ends (or begins!) at Boston Common, where the new sculpture The Embrace sits:

Indeed, some angles are weird:

January 16, 2023
Took an MBTA Commuter Rail train to Salem. Yes, that’s Elizabeth Montgomery:

The Salem Witch Trials memorial:

The Satanic Temple (alas, closed Mondays):

Then returned to Boston where we met up in Dorchester, near the James Blake House, dating to 1661, the oldest surviving house in Boston: