By Sea...A
Musical Cruise Through Boston's Past
Experience theatre on
water through such great events as The Boston Tea Party,
Boston Light, Old Ironsides - The USS Constitution,
Clipper Ships and the Golden Stairs of immigrants'
dreams. Your students will be captivated from start to
finish and it's a perfect way to bring your classroom
history to life.
By Land..."The Dawn of Our
Republic"
Lexington and
Concord
Lexington and Concord came into sudden glory on
April 19, 1775 when their militia companies and
minutemen engages a sizable Force of British regulars in
the first battles of what would become the Revolutionary
War. the glory has never faded. On our way to
Lexington adn Concord we will first stop in Cambridge.
Cambridge was incorporated by the Mass. Bay Colony in
1630 in a city which encompasses history as the lecture
and education. We will get off at Harvard Square and
take a stroll through beautiful Harvard Yard. Harvard
University is the oldest institution of highest learning
in the U.S. as a college in 1633. Continuing on we will
pass by the Cambridge common where George Washington
took command of the Continental army in 1775. A ride
along "Tory Row" will take up past beautiful
pre-Revolutionary homes and also the home of H.W.
Longfellow, which takes us into Lexington. We will walk
over to the Lexington Green where the first encounter
between the British and the Americans took place in the
early dawn. From Lexington on to Concord past homes to
the North Bridge where the 'shot heard round the world'
was fired and British soldiers were put to rout by a
force of Americans made up chielfy of angry farmers in
arms. At the bridge we will see the famous statue of
the Minutemen.
Salem & Gloucester
(Experience Mass. Hysteria)
The name Sales is inextricably linked to the
witchcraft hysteria of 1690, and this connection is the
lure that brings thousands of visitors every year. But
Salem also has a glorious maritime history and splendid
architecture. Some of the finest 18th century houses in
America can be found here, evidence of the enormous
wealth amassed by Salem's ship captains. John Adams,
visiting Salem in 1766 wrote, "the houses are the most
elegant and grand that I have seen in any of the
maritime towns". Salem was first settled in 1626 by
Roger Coant and a group of fisherman who had abandoned
Cape Anne. In the 1690s, Salem was gripped by the
infamous witchcraft hysteria. In all, nineteen people
were hanged adn one crushed to death under heavy stomes.
We will visit the witch museum and relive this era. The
chronicle of Marble head begins in the 17th century when
this tiny coastal town was declared the largest fishing
port in the colonies by a Royal British Agent. The same
harbor where the ancient fishing fleet anchored is now a
world-class yachting capital. Gloucester was founded in
1623 and is the state's oldest fishing port, and today,
fishing continues to be the town's main enterprise.
Rudyard Kipling's 1897 novel Captain Courageous,
about a Portuguese fisherman who rescues a rich boy who
fell of a ship, was set aboard the Gloucester fleet.
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