Spring is sprung, so it is a good time to get out and take a walking tour of Boston where one can learn about history, architecture, art, nature, society, or just get some fresh air. Since I love walking tours, I decided to pull together a list of the various tours available in Boston [...]
For the penultimate Boston By Foot Tour of the Month of the 2007 season, and my last as co-chair, we visited Historic Roxbury. This is my favorite tour of all, because it’s full of surprises.
Photos from Boston By Foot Tour of the Month - Historic Roxbury
Roxbury was once an expansive city in it’s [...]
Labor Day is a good holiday. I’m pro-labor, pro-union so it’s nice that us hard-working folk get a day of our own. I spent the weekend much like any other. I slept in on Saturday, went to Mass on Sunday, met up with Craig and Lisa at True Grounds (where we [...]
Boston By Foot’s fourth Tour of the Month for the 2007 season explored the sinuous route of the Rose Kennedy Greenway through downtown Boston. With my capable co-chair in charge I got to enjoy this tour completely as a touree, and a lot of what I learned was new and illuminating. I should [...]
On Sunday July 29, I coordinated another Tour of the Month with Boston By Foot at the very familiar location of Harvard Yard. While it may look like a patch of shady grass surrounded by many, many brick buildings and a few stone buildings, there are some secrets and stories that made the tour [...]
In my spare time, I lead tours as a volunteer guide for the wonderful organization Boston By Foot. Right now I’m in my second year as co-chair for the Tour of the Month committee. I don’t actually lead these tours but coordinate everyone else involved from writing the tour manual, leading the tour [...]
