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Another view, from the other side. The stones do NOT resemble the location where people were actually burried; most people didn't have money for it anyway, and peaople were burries wherevere there seems to be an open space. It is estamated that this spot alone would hold about 10.000 bodies. In later days, this burrial grounds were kind of reshaped to this park-like enviornment and stones were just placed where appropiate.
01-Route * The route I walked in Boston circumvented the Financial District - most of this area is created by lowering hills in the environment and fill the shores. I arrived at the South Station Busterminal, walked to Boston Common, joined the Freedom Trail tour and went back along the old harbour - now converted into an expensive living area. * 1059 x 1089 * (204KB)

05-AtlanticBvld-SummerStr * Near the crossing of Atlantic Boulevard and Summer Street. Tha glass triangle is actually the roof of an underground station. As any financial district, offices reach for the sky. * 1416 x 1581 * (326KB)

06-BostonCommon * Boston Common - similar to Londons Hyde Park. * 1984 x 1488 * (588KB)

07-NewCityHall * The new Town Hall with it's golden (!) roof. In the Second Worldwar, the dome was pained gray. It looks like the Capitol in Washington, and this is not a coincidence: This building was more or less the final rehearsal - it's the same architect. * 1209 x 1884 * (307KB)

08-GranaryBurringGround-1 * One of the oldest cemeraties - burrial grounds - of Boston. Here three persons are burried that had great influence on the freedom of the USA. The ones I remember are Otis and Adams. The trianglular 'tomb' on the right is dedicated to another famous Bostonian: Benjamin Franklin. But the left Boston and died in Philadelphia - and is burried there:This memorial commemorates his parents. * 1984 x 1488 * (626KB)
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10-PresbetarianStone * The protestant people didn't use crucifixen, angels or whatever they thought haiden (Cathotlic) decoration but kept it simple: The skull as a reminder of the decay of the body, and the wings as the reminder of the eternity of the soul. * 1984 x 1488 * (351KB)

11-BostonMasacreVictims * This monument was erected to commemorate the victims of a unlucky event near the old city hall, that became known as the Boston Masacre - a sheer exxagaration and twisting of facts: propaganda in its most elementary form. The same can be said about the young boy that was shot - whether on purpose of by accident is faded in the proagandal use of the fact.... * 1488 x 1984 * (379KB)

12-OldCityHall * The Old City Hall where the Boston Masacre was said to have taken place. Well, quite neaby: on the other side of the square in front of the inn, or baracs that used to be there: This building is facing straight onto the Long Wharf, where Britsh troops would enter the main land. * 1312 x 1984 * (525KB)

13-Guide * Our guide - used to be a history teacher. And she had a tremendous way of explaining and telling. * 1488 x 1984 * (274KB)

14-FanaellHall * Farneall Hall. In the old days, it was just two stories: the lower one was a mall, the upper floor was used for public meetings, often on politics, until too many people attended The third floor and tower were added in the 19th century. * 1488 x 1984 * (404KB)
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