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Vermont – Rutland Area
We left the St. Johnsbury area a few days ago, but not before photographing a fabulously intense sunrise. We called our drive south toward Rutland “cute en route” as we stopped for one adorable landscape after another.
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Vermont – St. Johnsbury Area
Three days ago I rented a car in Boston and drove four hours to the Burlington, VT area for the start of my photography tour. Since then we have been so busy that I have barely had time to sit down to write. I now have a short break and having processed the photos from…
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Boston Museum and Sky High View
I took it a little easier today with only a couple of must-do’s on my list. I began with a visit to the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum in the Brookline neighbourhood of Boston.
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Harvard and an Unexpected Treat
John Harvard (1607-1638), was an English Puritan minister in New England who left his libary and half his estate for promotion of a college Massachusetts had founded two years previously. The colony was so grateful they decided to rename the institution “Harvard Colledge” (sic). There are no drawings or paintings of John Harvard, so the…
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Downtown Boston
The US National Park Service offers a series of free audio walking tours. I used “The Freedom Trail” this morning to guide me around the downtown area. This audio tour started at the Boston Common, a beautiful park in the middle of the city and the oldest park in the country, having been founded in…
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Boston’s North End
In 1930, Boston’s population in its North End neighbourhood was 99.9% Italian but people with non-Italian background have moved in with gentrification and the Italian population is now around 30%. Bobby, my food-tour guide who grew up in the North End – he even showed us his childhood home and where he went to school…
