Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston
> What should we do in the... 10 hours we're there? Even after the burglary, the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum is still worth a trip. Maybe not be top of the list for a 10 hour visit, but it deserves to be on the list. http://www.gardnermuseum.org/ This list of cultural featues in our YAPC bid would be a good starting point for this discussion and a good place to archive the suggestions! http://boston.pm.org/kwiki/index.cgi?YAPCBrainStorming It's possible the new Institute of Contemporary Art will be open by the time you get here .. it's "postponed to later in the fall". -- Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston
Oh, all right, I'll jump in with a historical tour you could probably do. It's the Freedom Trail, but not in sequential order. Start the afternoon, take a cab to the Bunker Hill memorial. Walk to the top if you're interested and have the stamina. >From there, I think you can walk down to Old Ironsides. I think you'll want to see these during the day. >From Old Ironsides, take a cab to the Boston Common hook up with the Freedom Trail there http://www.nps.gov/archive/bost/freedom_trail_ch1.htm The Boston Commons was the original* "Commons" where everyone grazed their cattle, and any good advocate of FLOSS should see it. (* in US anyway) from there, follow the Freedom Trail and see the Granary Burial Ground. You'll see where Paul Revere, Sam Adams, and John Hancock are buried. then on to the Old State House, see the marker for where the Boston Massacre occurred. http://www.bostonmassacre.net/place/location1.htm then through Fanieul Hall and on to Paul Revere's House and the Old North Church where the "one if by land, two if by sea" lanterns were hung. Paul Revere's house is in the North End, and only a few blocks away from Hanover Street, which is chock full of restaurants, which by this time, you'll be starving, and this is the place to mangia mangia. >From there, take a cab back to wherever. It's basically the Freedom Trail, but chopped up and reordered a bit. My wife and I walked it once start to finish in sequential order, only to discover there's a whole lot nothing separating Old Ironsides / Bunker Hill monument from the rest of the trail. (I think the total length is ~3 miles.) If you do it in the order I list, you'll see the bunker hill memorial and old ironsides while the sun is still out (which you'll want) and you'll end up in the North End by the time it's dark, you'll be hungry and surrounded by good restaraunts. ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston
>If you're coming in with a cruise ship, you might be docking somewhere >near the aquarium Maybe, but Black Falcon terminal in South Boston is more likely. Unfortunately, that's not near much of anything. You can take a Silver Line bus from there to South Station, or get a water taxi to the Aquarium -- http://www.citywatertaxi.com ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston
On 15 Sep 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 06:42:48PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: >>> "JA" == John Abreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> >> JA> David H. Adler wrote: So. Mom and I are taking a cruise next month up the east coast and into Canada. We've got a day (22 Oct, if I've got this all right) in Boston. What should we do in the... 10 hours we're there? >> >> i assume that is a day stop here? what hours? > > Yep. I believe we dock at 8am and set sail (motor?) at 6pm. This is a Sunday I think. I think walking around Boston on a Sunday is a wonderful experience. If you're coming in with a cruise ship, you might be docking somewhere near the aquarium, which is well worth a visit in my opinion. From there you can go to the North End in 10 minutes. The North End has good food (Mike's Pastry is a must for sweets, and their bread is great too). Look around, there's plenty of inexpensive restaurants. Paul Revere's house is there too, and many visitors like to see it. >From the North End you can walk across the road to the downtown area, following the Freedom Trail basically. If you have the energy, keep walking to the Boston Common and you'll see plenty of nice architecture. You may want to avoid the "Cheers" bar which is on the side of the Common. Walk on Commonwealth Avenue or Newbury Street a little bit, then head to Copley Square--you'll see Trinity Church, the library, and plenty more. You can get back through the Theater District and Chinatown, or (if you're tired) take the Green line to the Red line (switch at Park Street), which will drop you off at South Station, close to where you started. Another point of interest is the USS Constitution, "Old Ironsides," the famous ship docked in Charlestown not far from downtown. You may see it from the cruise ship. Ted ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston
>> on Oct. 22nd. >If the Red Sox are *not* playing This year, that's a VERY safe assumption ;-( ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston
On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Uri Guttman wrote: > > "MV" == Minh Vo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MV> If you haven't seen Blueman Group, they have a show at 2pm > MV> on Oct. 22nd. Very "interesting" show... > > you may not realize that blue man started in nyc (where dave and mom > live) and so they could see it there. also we still don't know the > time window of the port visit. assuming mostly daytime, i doubt an > evening show will work for them. Good thing he specified 2pm then :-) > we just need to point them to boston stuff which doesn't have much of > a counterpart in nyc. Vaguely moving from west to east (i.e. probably backwards...), here's some ideas: If the Red Sox are *not* playing, you can take a tour of Fenway Park (which I personally found more fun than a game, but then I'm not into baseball). You get to go to the press box, on top of the Green Monster, and behind home plate. Sadly, they don't let you go on the field though. http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/bos/ballpark/tour.jsp As a kid I really liked the Mapparium at the Christian Science center. The exhibit got renovated a few years ago, and when I went back to see it again a couple of years ago, I still liked the globe itself, but not so much the museum they had for the CS stuff. Oh well. http://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/exhibits/mapparium.jhtml The old/original wing of the Boston Public Library (the McKim Building, I've just learned) is cool. An art-student friend visited a few years ago and was content to just hang out there for several hours, looking at the building itself, the books, and the free exhibits upstairs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Public_Library Also on Copley Square is Trinity Church, which I keep meaning to go walk around some day. The outside is fantastic. Hm, maybe I'll go there today now that I think about it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Church%2C_Boston Also on or near Copley Square are the John Hancock and Prudential towers. The John Hancock Tower was one of the first all-glass skyscrapers in the world, and took a few years post-construction to get right (huge panes of glass falling 60 stories onto the sidewalk, the slow realization that a good stong gust could knock the whole building over, etc -- the usual). It's the tallest building in the city and so used to have the best views of it, but the observation deck closed after Sept 11, so the Prudential Center's Skywalk Observatory is now the highest place to get views of the city. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock_Tower http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudential_Tower http://www.prudentialcenter.com/play/skywalk.html If you're going to do a Duck Tour, the tours start from the Prudential Center, the Museum of Science, or Faneuil Hall. http://www.bostonducktours.com/tickets_main.html http://www.prudentialcenter.com/play/ducktours.html I'm not sure what a good vantage point is to see it, but the new Zakim Bridge is impressive. You can see if fairly close from the Museum of Science and the USS Constitution, and closer still from the EF Building (which also has a big slab from the Berlin Wall on public display out front); if you take a Duck Boat tour, I think they go pretty close to the, as well as the Berlin Wall piece. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakim_Bunker_Hill_Bridge http://www.leonardpzakimbunkerhillbridge.org/ http://www.google.com/maps?q=ef+education&near=Boston,+MA&cid=42358333,-71060278,357515942939126501 (The Google map gets the EF spot slightly off -- across from the Museum of Science, on the other side of the Green Line causeway bridge, the EF Building is straight ahead on the right side of the street. Zoom the map all the way in and, though it isn't clear what you're looking at, the Berlin Wall segment is visible to the left of the cluster of trees and to the right of the patio in front of the building, casting a shadow onto the patio. http://www.google.com/maps?q=ef+education&near=Boston,+MA&cid=42358333,-71060278,357515942939126501&ll=42.369438,-71.071064&spn=0.00151,0.00239&t=h http://karl.hiramoto.org/photo-album/2001/ed-jo-pictures-summer2001/2%20July%2001%20Boston-Kate/tn/Berlin%20Wall.jpg.html Ah, it looks like the Head of the Charles (rowing / sculling regatta) is that weekend, that might be worth checking out. You can see it from either side of the river, starting downstream near the BU Boathouse, upstream past Harvard to the finish line Herter Park. Alternately, if this isn't your cuppa tea, you may wish to avoid the race route and nearby areas (e.g. Harvard Square), as they'll probably be mobbed. http://www.hocr.org/home/default.asp http://www.hocr.org/pdf/shuttlen.pdf -- Chris Devers ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston
On Thursday, Sep 14th 2006 at 17:16 -0400, quoth John Abreau: =>David H. Adler wrote: =>> So. Mom and I are taking a cruise next month up the east coast and into =>> Canada. We've got a day (22 Oct, if I've got this all right) in Boston. =>> =>> What should we do in the... 10 hours we're there? =>> =>> Thanks. =>> =>> dha =>> => =>A few things that come to mind: => =>* Freedom Trail - walking tour of historic sites from the American =>Revolution =>* Old Ironsides - famous naval warship from Colonial times =>* Faneuil Hall marketplace =>* Museum of Fine Arts =>* Computer Museum =>* Fenway Park, if the Red Sox are playing that day * The hookers in the Combat Zone. * A tour of the tiles in the tunnels. * Breakfast at the 4 seasons is always fun. Coffee and donut for $75. * See the leaves turning color. (Oh wait. Not this year.) * Tour of Boston on Duck Tours. (Don't fall into the Charles. Love that dirty waddah...) Seriously, I don't know if it'll still be there, but check out Plastination at the Museum of Science. :-) -- Time flies like the wind. Fruit flies like a banana. Stranger things have .0. happened but none stranger than this. Does your driver's license say Organ ..0 Donor?Black holes are where God divided by zero. Listen to me! We are all- 000 individuals! What if this weren't a hypothetical question? steveo at syslang.net ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston
Two in Cambridge are well worth seeing (especially for people who live here! :) MIT Museum -- great permanent collection on robots, MIT hacks, holograms, mechanical sculptures by Arthur Ganson, and usually also a variable show. http://web.mit.edu/museum/ Harvard Museum -- the world famous (and deservedly so) glass flowers. Hopefully helpfully yours, Steve -- Steve Tolkin Steve . Tolkin at FMR dot COM 508-787-9006 Fidelity Investments 82 Devonshire St. M3L Boston MA 02109 There is nothing so practical as a good theory. Comments are by me, not Fidelity Investments, its subsidiaries or affiliates. -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of David H. Adler Sent: Friday, September 15, 2006 1:01 AM To: boston-pm@mail.pm.org Subject: Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 06:42:48PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: > >>>>> "JA" == John Abreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JA> David H. Adler wrote: > >> So. Mom and I are taking a cruise next month up the east coast and into > >> Canada. We've got a day (22 Oct, if I've got this all right) in Boston. > >> What should we do in the... 10 hours we're there? > > i assume that is a day stop here? what hours? Yep. I believe we dock at 8am and set sail (motor?) at 6pm. [snip suggestions] > > another possible idea is an emergency pm social lunch. This, of course, is a definite possiblity. dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ It's about hoodwinking the viewer in the cheapest and easiest manner possible- Markku Pätilä ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston
On Thu, Sep 14, 2006 at 06:42:48PM -0400, Uri Guttman wrote: > > "JA" == John Abreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > JA> David H. Adler wrote: > >> So. Mom and I are taking a cruise next month up the east coast and into > >> Canada. We've got a day (22 Oct, if I've got this all right) in Boston. > >> What should we do in the... 10 hours we're there? > > i assume that is a day stop here? what hours? Yep. I believe we dock at 8am and set sail (motor?) at 6pm. [snip suggestions] > > another possible idea is an emergency pm social lunch. This, of course, is a definite possiblity. dha -- David H. Adler - <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> - http://www.panix.com/~dha/ It's about hoodwinking the viewer in the cheapest and easiest manner possible- Markku P?til? ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston
> "MV" == Minh Vo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: MV> If you haven't seen Blueman Group, they have a show at 2pm on Oct. MV> 22nd. Very "interesting" show... you may not realize that blue man started in nyc (where dave and mom live) and so they could see it there. also we still don't know the time window of the port visit. assuming mostly daytime, i doubt an evening show will work for them. MV> I agree with Uri on visiting Boston Common/public gardens. It's a MV> very nice place for photos and the like. Chinatown is a few minutes MV> walk away, so if you're feeling adventurous (and hungry), I suggest MV> you give Shabu-Zen (www.shabuzen.com) a try. Everyone I've brought MV> there have enjoyed it. :) and nyc has an even bigger and probably better chinatown. :) we just need to point them to boston stuff which doesn't have much of a counterpart in nyc. uri -- Uri Guttman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs http://jobs.perl.org ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston
John and Uri pretty much suggested all the good spots to see in Boston. Adding a few suggestions of my own onto the list: If you haven't seen Blueman Group, they have a show at 2pm on Oct. 22nd. Very "interesting" show... I agree with Uri on visiting Boston Common/public gardens. It's a very nice place for photos and the like. Chinatown is a few minutes walk away, so if you're feeling adventurous (and hungry), I suggest you give Shabu-Zen (www.shabuzen.com) a try. Everyone I've brought there have enjoyed it. :) Boston's South End is also a great neighborhood to visit for its architecture and quality Italian food. - M ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston
From: Uri Guttman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Thu, 14 Sep 2006 18:42:48 -0400 > "JA" == John Abreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JA> David H. Adler wrote: >> So. Mom and I are taking a cruise next month up the east coast and into >> Canada. We've got a day (22 Oct, if I've got this all right) in Boston. >> What should we do in the... 10 hours we're there? JA> A few things that come to mind: JA> * Computer Museum that isn't here anymore IIRC. i could be wrong. but knowing dha's mom (from travel agent biz) she won't be into that. At least some of it got folded into the Museum of Science: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Computer_Museum -- Bob ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston
> "JA" == John Abreau <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: JA> David H. Adler wrote: >> So. Mom and I are taking a cruise next month up the east coast and into >> Canada. We've got a day (22 Oct, if I've got this all right) in Boston. >> What should we do in the... 10 hours we're there? i assume that is a day stop here? what hours? JA> A few things that come to mind: JA> * Freedom Trail - walking tour of historic sites from the American JA> Revolution JA> * Old Ironsides - famous naval warship from Colonial times two classics (but never did either myself). JA> * Faneuil Hall marketplace too touristy. they are travel agent folks and prolly want more interesting things to do. JA> * Museum of Fine Arts good choice. check out what the special event is on display. JA> * Computer Museum that isn't here anymore IIRC. i could be wrong. but knowing dha's mom (from travel agent biz) she won't be into that. JA> * Fenway Park, if the Red Sox are playing that day fat chance they will be and if they are thinner chance to get a ticket to a playoff game. :) a duck boat tour (touristy but actually very good. we did it a bunch of years ago). dunno if they will still be running that late in the fall. public gardens. great place to stroll and see nice green things and people watch. tour mit and/or harvard (depending on your taste). browse harvard sq (not like it was 30 years ago). another possible idea is an emergency pm social lunch. uri -- Uri Guttman -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.stemsystems.com --Perl Consulting, Stem Development, Systems Architecture, Design and Coding- Search or Offer Perl Jobs http://jobs.perl.org ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
Re: [Boston.pm] Short time in Boston
David H. Adler wrote: So. Mom and I are taking a cruise next month up the east coast and into Canada. We've got a day (22 Oct, if I've got this all right) in Boston. What should we do in the... 10 hours we're there? Thanks. dha A few things that come to mind: * Freedom Trail - walking tour of historic sites from the American Revolution * Old Ironsides - famous naval warship from Colonial times * Faneuil Hall marketplace * Museum of Fine Arts * Computer Museum * Fenway Park, if the Red Sox are playing that day -- John Abreau / Executive Director, Boston Linux & Unix ICQ 28611923 / AIM abreauj / JABBER [EMAIL PROTECTED] / YAHOO abreauj Email [EMAIL PROTECTED] / WWW http://www.abreau.net / PGP-Key-ID 0xD5C7B5D9 PGP-Key-Fingerprint 72 FB 39 4F 3C 3B D6 5B E0 C8 5A 6E F1 2C BE 99 -- This message has been scanned for viruses and dangerous content by MailScanner, and is believed to be clean. ___ Boston-pm mailing list Boston-pm@mail.pm.org http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
