{"id":5548,"date":"2014-05-27T09:15:58","date_gmt":"2014-05-27T16:15:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/?p=5548"},"modified":"2014-05-26T22:49:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-27T05:49:00","slug":"boston-the-freedom-trail-and-fine-arts-museum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/matchgrun.com\/blog\/2014\/05\/27\/boston-the-freedom-trail-and-fine-arts-museum\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston — The Freedom Trail And Fine Arts Museum"},"content":{"rendered":"

We left Salem and moved to Boston. After meeting Wojtek and Kerril, we started along The Freedom Trail. During the course of the next few days we caught up events over the last 5 years. The trail starts at Boston Common, making its way past various sites that trace historic events leading up to the Revolutionary War. The Old South Meeting House was one location where historic meetings were held.<\/p>\n

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Clock, Old South Meeting House<\/p><\/div>\n

We made our way to the Old State House. It was outside this building that the Boston Massacre took place. I was intrigued by the semi-circular stair case that is located in the center of the building. This was added many years after the end of the Revolutionary War.<\/p>\n

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Stairs, Old State House<\/p><\/div>\n

After lunch, we continued with the trail, making our way to Paul Revere’s House. This is a museum that contains some of the period furniture and artifacts from Paul Revere’s time.<\/p>\n

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Paul Revere House<\/p><\/div>\n

The following day, we met at the Museum of Fine Arts. There were some interesting works. The following work, is consists of foot-shaped paper, cut from phone directories, stacked several feet high. This work traces footsteps walking along the floor.<\/p>\n

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Vertical Walk Sculpture, Museum Of Fine Arts<\/p><\/div>\n

One unmistakeable work is a Chihuly glass sculpture (green icicle tower) that stands some 40 feet in height. There are over 2000 blown glass leaves that comprise this piece.<\/p>\n

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Chihuly Sculpture<\/p><\/div>\n

While admiring the sculpture from the third floor, I made this image of a museum visitor.<\/p>\n

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Chihuly, With Visitor<\/p><\/div>\n

On the morning we visited, there were crowds of schoolkids visiting the museum. I could not resist making this image of a group of kids with their yellow tee-shirts.<\/p>\n

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Schoolkids In The Museum<\/p><\/div>\n

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