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Massachusetts Fun
Facts: The world’s first computer
was developed at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in 1928, the state
bird is the Chickadee, the state flower is the Mayflower, and the state beverage
is Cranberry Juice. Boston is also
the ice cream capitol of the country. The first activity for any visitor should be to follow the Freedom Trail, which is a wide red line painted on the sidewalks downtown and on the Italian North end. The trail passes by many historic sites such as Paul Revere’s house, the Granary Burying Ground (where John Hancock, Samuel Adams, and other patriots are buried), and the Old North Church (where Paul Revere used two lanterns to signal that the British were coming in 1775). Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, and Louisa May Alcott are among the famous authors buried at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery in nearby Concord.
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Massachusetts
We
recommend a stop at the John F. Kennedy Hyannis Museum to browse through the
collection of photographs taken with the family while the former president
visited the Cape and view the video narrated by Walter Cronkite entitled
"Camelot".
The driving style
is much more aggressive than in most parts of the country (stop signs and red
lights are considered more of a suggestion rather than a law).