Day 8: Lowell National Historical Park
Day 10: Minuteman National Park, Walden Pond
Picnic lunch at the Visitor Center of Minuteman National Historic Park
Battle Road, near Hartwell Tavern
Minuteman Wilder demonstrates loading and firing of a musket
.....
...but it didn't always fire!
Hartwell Tavern
Walden Pond: skipping stones
Walden Pond: something interesting
Walden Pond scene
Day 11: Boston Waterfront, Whale Watch
The green elevated roadway will disappear when the "Big Dig" is finished
The new John Joseph Moakley Federal Courthouse
Catamaran leaving Boston Harbor
Catamaran returning after we see one whale
Day 12: DeCordova Museum
Sally S. Fine: "Woman in Trees"
Bill Botzow: "Bemoth"
Joseph Wheelwright: "Listening Stone"
Joseph Wheelwright: "Listening Stone"
William Harby: "Marble Reflections"
Konstantin Simun "Totem America"
John Wilson" "Eternal Presence"
Museum - the old building.
The oval in the foreground - Paul Voss: "Grotto", activated by sunlight
The sculpture by David Shapiro: "Carnival"
Day 13: Arnold Arboretum
Beech tree limbs: Fagus tortuosa
Bonsai trees