It's coming upon a Hallowed event for those of us who claim the USA as our homeland!!! We are celebrating 250 years of the United States this coming July 4th and we are going to do it Mountain Style here are Comfy Mama!!
First lets entertain building our first settlement as it were and talk about Pilgrims and Native Americans!!
Our family has just had the extreme delight to journey to the New World (as travelers would have deemed it 400 hundred years ago!) Our trip happened by gas powered car and we headed north. Although we did not have an expedition crossing the Atlantic, we did, like the Pilgrim Fathers, end up staying in Plymouth!
What a beautiful place: The place of beginnings historically, but also a place that prior was very well cultivated, well known and beloved ground of the Wampanoag People whose tribes and related tribes stretched throughout New England. We went to historic Plimoth/Patuxent!
What an amazing place--where people who are from Wampanoag roots speak respectfully about their ancestors and where those playing the "English settlers" use words like "Aye" and "How are Ye?
We walked the Freedom Trail
went to Harvard's campus, just in time to see graduates excitedly taking pictures in their regalia in front of their famous library, and traveled to a little park at the end of Plymouth that boasted so many sea creatures at low tide! We observed jelly fish, and barnacles, and clams and periwinkle snails. As the sun began to set the pools reflected the sky exactly. As the Moon led its nightly rhythmic influence over the tides the sea creatures began to reveal deeper; almost intangible color--deep browns, greens, light and dark grays, and whites.
We also went to the Whaling Museum in New Bradford
and ran across a display on the third floor talking about the Azores and the Azorean influence on the whaling industry. Within an hour we went out to Buzzards Bay and met a man who was born in the Azores and disclosed to us the rich History of Azorean and Portuguese cultures in New Bedford!
We went to their recommended place: Alianca's restaurant (where the food was beautifully prepared and special attention was given to flavor and presentation! We hope if you ever go to Boston, you'll give them a try!!
Here's to Boston--that great city of firsts, and education and people who speak their mind in their deep brisk accent--The place where people register blank when you order your tea to be sweet (while empathetically pointing you in the direction of sugar packets!!) What a most beautiful place. I took a tiny little piece of Boston and put it in my heart.
Catch My Next Post for my Homage to the Style of Boston!!!
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