4th - 15th July 2013 - Boston Part 3- Boston Tea Party
Nimue
Mon 15 Jul 2013 22:39
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For our final day trip into Boston, Kenny dropped us off at Fore River
Shipyard at Quincy and we took a 40 minute Ferry ride into Boston
  Arriving by Ferry from Quincy into
Boston Long Wharf
 A walk around the ‘North End’ has a real
Italian flavour, with numerous eateries and top class
restaurants
  The Union Oyster House is the oldest restaurant
in Boston and the oldest restaurant in continuous service in the US and the
doors have been open since 1826.
As we walked around Boston, we walked into Carmen Park, which is named in
the recognition of William Carmen’s service to the community and his vision and
leadership in creating the New England Holocaust Memorial. The memorial is
made of glass chimneys with every part of the glass encrypted with an individual
number of each person murdered.
       Remnants of Boston’s old over ground
railway system which used to have the gangs (as seen on TV) hanging out
beneath
 The Boston Tea Party was a political protest by the Sons of
Liberty in Boston on 1773. The demonstrators, destroyed an entire shipment
of tea sent by the East India Company, in defiance of the Tea Act of the same
year. They boarded the ships and threw the chests of tea into Boston
Harbour, ruining the tea. The British government responded harshly and the
episode escalated into the American Revolution. The Tea Party became an
iconic event of American history.
  The ‘official site’ of the Boston Tea
Party – Ships and Museum.
A re-enactment of the “tea throwing”
 Time for a “cuppa”
 Part of the Boston
Harbourwalk
  Busy streets for the Boston fire engines
to enter into!
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