[If you’re in
New England, there are few more beautiful spots for a spring walk than Cambridge’s Mount Auburn Cemetery. In this
week’s series, I’ve highlighted a few American connections for this unique site
and all it includes. This crowd-sourced walk moves through the responses of
fellow AmericanStudiers to those posts and other spaces they shared—add yours
in comments, please!]
On Facebook, Monday’s
post received a number of responses, including from such knowledgable Mount
AuburnStudiers as Rob
Velella and the Friends
of Mount Auburn!
Also on FB, Ian James writes,
“I live in Medford and we have a beautiful preserve, the Middlesex
Fells. In addition to great trails, shade, and some wildlife, it has a
tower on a high hill. From the tower you can look in two directions to see
Boston clearly, or in two other directions to see wilderness as far as the
horizon.”
Andrew DaSilva highlights,
“Nickerson
State Park in Brewster, the Cape Cod Bike Trails, Nauset Beach in Orleans, Marconi Beach in Wellfleet, the
conservation trails all around the Brewster
Natural History Museum, Commercial Street in
Provincetown, Castle Island
in Boston Harbor (great for kite flying), Scargo Tower in Dennis, Purgatory Chasm in Sutton, and last but not
least the Keystone Arches in Westfield. I think that about gives ya a taste of what
this great Commonwealth has to offer.”
Rob Gosselin argues,
“Take the commuter rail to North Station. Take the T to Copley Square. Visit at
the Boston Public Library. Check out some artwork and have a coffee in the
courtyard. One of Boston's best spots. Then walk up Dartmouth Street to Beacon
Street. Take a right. Walk all the way up Beacon, past the Boston Public Garden
and Boston Common. Have a picnic on the common. Then take a tour of the State
House. Catch the T back to North Station. Then
write about it on the way home. I've done this dozens of times, and each time I
end up writing something totally different.”
Also lots of
great Twitter ideas to share:
Ann Little notes that “Independence National Park was
only lightly trafficked last Friday morning—we got 9:30 tour tickets for
Independence Hall at 9:10.”
Joseph Adelman writes, “I’m always a fan
of the Freedom Trail, and the
weather is supposed to be beautiful in Boston finally! And as my students know,
I also recommend a stop at Mike’s Pastry
on the way back.”
Cynthia
Lynn Lyerly shares a ton of great New England options: “The Black Heritage Trail in
Boston. Breakheart
Reservation (nature). Mt. Auburn for
both history and nature. If you have a full day—Nantucket is amazing (with a Black Heritage Trail
too), and so is New Bedford Whaling
Museum. And for Gilded Age, those Newport
Mansions are not well contextualized, but I think everybody gets that they
had too much money.” She adds, “I forgot Deerfield! Haven't been to Old
Sturbridge but that's on the agenda this year. Concord is great for Revolutionary
War buffs.”
Ian Delahanty says “Yes to
the New Bedford Whaling Museum! Nearby is a monument for New
Bedford’s soldiers in the 54th and 55th
Massachusetts.” He also highlights the “Blue
Hills and Middlesex Fells reservations, and in Western MA, Mount
Greylock, which gave Melville
inspiration for Moby Dick.”
A Tweeter for the Fitchburg Historical Society
writes, “I like Fitchburg's
Steamline Trail...also, the Oxbow
National Wildlife Refuge: you walk on the old Union turnpike.”
Mike Rogers shares sites for
Indianapolis: “Crown Hill Cemetery
(James Whitcomb Riley, President
Benjamin Harrison), the cemetery’s Civil
war section, the Soldiers &
Sailors Monument, the World War
Memorial, and the Indianapolis
Motor Speedway.”
Next series
starts Monday,
Ben
PS. Other
responses and/or spaces you’d share?
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