After a four year restoration at Mystic Seaport in Mystic CT, The Mayflower II returned to Plymouth MA in August 2020. However, this posts illuminates the painstaking work required to bring this 60-something year old ship back to her prime. The Original Mayflower The original Mayflower and its 102 passengers …
WHY GO: Maryland’s second largest city (after Baltimore), Frederick MD, is on the move. Distilleries have popped up like stills in the hills, And a stunning downtown canal-walk swarms with locals on balmy days and nights. With its brick row homes, adorable boutiques, and growing culinary scene, Frederick feels like …
WHY GO: St Mary’s County MD, a “can’t get there from here” section of Southern Maryland, is bound on three sides by water – the Potomac River, Patuxent River, and the Chesapeake Bay. Deeply historic, St Mary’s County drew early European settlers: most notably a group of Catholics escaping persecution …
WHY GO: Called “The City That Lit the World,” New Bedford MA, once the planet’s premier whaling town, claimed more millionaires than any other city in America. From the 1820s until whaling’s demise in 1925, when the last whaling ship sailed out of New Bedford Harbor, this city dominated the …
WHY GO. Fairhaven MA wasn’t a company town. It was a lucky town. Henry Huttleston Rogers, President of six (out of 13) Standard Oil Trust Companies, was overly magnanimous when it came to his hometown, endowing it with public buildings to rival those in the greatest European cities. (Rogers also …
WHY GO: A monument to American Industry and Ingenuity, Lowell National Historical Park, in Lowell MA, 30 miles from Boston, is unlike any other U.S. National Park in that it takes up sections of a still thriving (or, as the case may be, reviving) city. This unconventional National Park was …
WHY GO: Lexington MA is the best place in the USA to learn about our country’s origins. And to celebrate Patriot’s Day. Tell the truth. If you’re not from The State of Massachusetts, did you even know about Patriot’s Day before the movie about the Boston Marathon bombing came out? …
WHY GO: Concord MA was site of one of the most important events in American History, made famous in this poem. By the rude bridge that arched the flood/ their flag to April’s breeze unfurled/here once the embattled farmers stood/and fired the Shot Heard Round the World. – Ralph Waldo …
WHY GO: There are so many entertaining things to do in Salem MA, that we’ve divided them into two blog posts. This one, and another on fun things to do in Salem MA with no witches. The phrase “Witch Hunt” has been flung around pretty cavalierly lately, but here, in …
WHY GO: The Flag. Yes, ours. The one we sing about in the Star Spangled Banner was sewn and originally sent up the pole in Baltimore. So a visit to Baltimore MD, the “Monumental City,” wouldn’t be complete without seeing where Old Glory was stitched and flew proudly. Chances are …