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Boston – Beacon Hill, ‘Ain’t I a Woman?’ and Ducklings

They say that Boston is a walkable city and we have walked for hours discovering the fascinating Boston African American History Museum having followed the Black History Trail around the Beacon Hill area. I learned about the feisty Sojourner Truth and her amazing speech delivered at the 1851 Women’s Rights Convention in Ohio. You may have to click to enlarge the photo to read it.

The buildings around Beacon Hill are beautiful. I loved the beautifully kept doors and porches.

We walked the Freedom Trail too finding The Old State House, Faneuil Hall and Quincy Market where we had Corn Chowder in a Bread Roll for lunch

Back to our hotel through the park, red leaves and the delightful Make Way for Ducklings sculpture.

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on October 16, 2013 in America, architecture, Beauty, History, photography, Postaday2013, sculpture

Tags: Black History Month, Black History Trail, Boston, Boston African American History Museum, Make way for ducklings

White Daffodils, Clematis and Boston Ducklings

19 Apr

1 My Suffragette garden is full of white daffodils and tulips. The purple tulips are almost ready to bloom. I so hope they will flower before the white tulips have faded.

White daffodils and tulips

2 The new Clematis, ‘Early Sensation’, has a few flowers which are very pretty.

White Clematis

3 The baby ducklings in today’s post by Marilyn remind me of a beautiful little book my parents bought when they were in Boston many years ago (and Boston is in all our minds this week with such sadness.) “Make Way for Ducklings” by Robert McCloskey is about a policeman who stops the traffic so that the mother duck can take her ducklings across the road to the pond in the park, a beautiful story about a beautiful city to whose citizens we send condolences.

Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey

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Posted by mybeautfulthings on April 19, 2013 in books, children's, flowers, garden, nature, photography, picture story books, Postaday2013

Tags: Boston, Early Sensation clematis, Make way for ducklings, Robert McCloskey, Suffragette Garden

St Uny Engine House, Curl and Story-time

29 Jul

1 Had a lovely walk up round the back of our house on The Great Flat Lode Trail as Jake wanted to see the engine house again. (Click on any photo for an enlargement)

: St Uny Engine House

: Curl

: Tonight’s story

2 The back of Tabitha’s head and its beautiful curl are something very special!

3 Another special moment, every evening, is story-time. Tonight it was, ‘Make Way for Ducklings’, a story that my parents brought home from a holiday in Boston about 1980 for our four children.

Our last night with P&V who leave tomorrow morning. It has been a beautiful seventeen days.