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In Boston’s North End you’ll find the small wooden home that was the starting point for Paul Revere’s infamous ride. He lived in the home with his wife, five children, and mother, remaining in the home long after the ride that made him a legend. The house was eventually sold around 1800. The Paul Revere [...]
Today’s Matchbook Monday comes from a Boston favorite. 75 Chestnut is a small pub-style restaurant in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of Boston. While it was once an elegant, high end restaurant, it reinvented itself into a popular, and affordable, neighborhood establishment with a bistro-like interior. The menu includes pub fare (burgers, soups, salads, and sandwiches) [...]
A couple hour drive west of Boston, nearly to the New York state line in Stockbridge, is the Norman Rockwell Museum. The site was Rockwell’s home for the last 25 years of his life, and was turned into a museum housing over 700 of his paintings, drawings and studies (the largest collection in the world), [...]
Have you noticed how the nights are getting just a little bit cooler? And in the mornings, there’s starting to be a little crispness in the air. When the weather gets like this, I start thinking about the fall foliage, and how beautiful nature can be this time of year. Word is that this year’s [...]
June 2nd, 1692, is generally recognized as the commencing of the Salem Witch Trials. Hindsight tells us that, despite the rampant hysteria running through the community at the time, none of these people (mostly women) were witches. Fear does crazy things to people. Salem, rather than denying it, or trying to distance itself from its [...]
In addition to traveling, Mary Jo likes lingering over a cup of coffee, wandering in a museum, sipping wine at a cafe, enjoying a relaxing massage, and sharing it all with friends and readers.
Her most recent travels were to Portugal and Italy.
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