Was it one if by land and two if by sea, or was it two if by land...

October 9

We rode the MTA into Boston today. Boston Harbor, the Old North Church, Paul Revere’s house, Old Ironsides, Bunker Hill, Old South Meeting Hall, the Boston Commons. So rich in history is this city I cannot put today’s events into description. Except, I will try one venue. In the Old South Meeting Hall, which was just down the street of the site of the Boston massacre, I sat in the pews and tried to imagine how it must have been in that church (churches were meeting halls where secular issues were regularly debated) to listen to Paul Revere, George Washington, John Hancock, Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, John Adams, and others as they spoke and openly debated the issues of the times. There were no marketing geniuses or public relation analysts. It must have been substance rather than party affiliation. How informative and genuine those words must have been.

The pictures are Paul Revere's house, inside the North Church where the lamps signaled the arrival of the British, and the memorial to Mary Dyer, who was hanged in the Boston Common in 1660 because she professed to be a Quaker, not a Puritan.