Boston Freedom Trail

(Finally getting time to post some more of our anniversary trip!)

We took a guided tour of part of the Freedom Trail in Boston.  This is our guide, Abigail Adams (known as Nabby or Abbey), youngest daughter of Samuel Adams.  She was an outstanding guide!

 This is the Franklin Stone in the Granary Burying Ground....NOT Ben Franklin..!...Ben Franklin hated Boston and refused to be buried there.  The Bostonians did not take the snub well and decided to raise a huge stone for Franklin's parents!  Franklin's parents were extremely poor and couldn't afford a large stone but thanks to the city Fathers....they have the largest stone in the cemetery!

Nabby standing at Paul Revere's grave.  The small stone to her left is his actual grave stone (actually his foot stone).  The one on her right was placed by the City Fathers of Boston.  What is all over the ground at the foot of the marker???  See below...

 Thousands of pennies!!!!!  After all Paul was a copper smith!  And Yes....I did throw down a penny at his grave!   BTW "Mother Goose" is also buried in this cemetery!  They don't think she actually wrote the "Mother Goose" stories but repeated stories she had heard to her children which were finally written down in story form.

 Nabby standing at Samuel Adams grave stone.  Another great Patriot! (Note the pennies on top of the stone)

The Old State House.  This building faces the site of the Boston Massacre, which is where I was standing when I took this picture.  On July 18, 1776 the Declaration of Independence was read from this balcony.

 Faneuil Hall otherwise known as the "Cradle of Liberty" because of the speeches made here by Samuel Adams, James Otis and other patriots urging independence from Great Britain.

 The weather vane on top of Faneuil Hall.  What is it??  If you were asked during the Revolutionary War...and you didn't know what it was...you were shot as a British spy!!!  OK all you patriots out there, zoom in on it and tell me what it is!!!

 The site of the first public school in America.  Ben Franklin (statue), Samuel Adams and John Hancock attended the school at this site.