My mother and father are huge sports fans:
baseball, football,
hockey - just all of it. My mother took us to
Fenway Park to see a
baseball game, and that was fantastic. I mean, what a great
stadium! That's a huge
Boston highlight. I don't think my dad was
there; he was probably working or something.
Faneuil Hall is the
market there, which is actually even more of a highlight than the
aquarium. I feel like I went there when it was brand-new. I mean,
you come from running around in the woods and having a quiet life,
and you go in there, and there are three huge aisles of food from
everywhere you can imagine and, of course, tons of things that you
want to buy. Just off the market is Durgin-Park, which is a
must-visit restaurant that goes back to Revolutionary days. It's
famous for
New England cooking: chowder, Boston baked beans, and
Indian pudding.
I guess Bree, being perfect, would take her kids on the
Freedom Trail, right?
Oh, absolutely. Especially now, if you're in
California, you
realize that L.A. does not have that kind of history, and you
realize how important
Massachusetts was and the historic value of
the state. That's a fantastic thing to do - to take that tour and
then wind your way over to Faneuil Hall. Don't miss the Old State
House - lots of treasures inside, including tea from the Boston Tea
Party. And the
Old North Church is where Robert Newman climbed the
steeple and hung two lanterns, as arranged by
Paul Revere, to
signal the start of the Revolutionary War. The Paul Revere House is
where Paul Revere was living when he set out for Lexington in 1775.
It's on the
Freedom Trail, and it's the oldest house in downtown
Boston, built around 1680. I really do think if you are going to
Boston, that's the stuff to see. You know, shopping and whatever is
great, but the historic stuff is really fantastic. For example, you
have to see the Gibson House Museum, a totally intact
nineteenth-century town house, one of the first houses built in
Back Bay. It tells the story of nineteenth-century Boston and how
people really lived.
Let's talk in contemporary terms. Where do you stay when you
go back now?