G-Pod Family

Brock and Papa traveled to Boston, New Hampshire, and Maine during spring break.

United First Parish Church, Quincy, MA. Resting place of the 2nd and 6th presidents, John Adams and John Quincy Adams.

64A Government St, Frame Shop, Kittery, ME. Mom, Papa and Whitby lived for a year (1990-91) in the basement at the back.

Walker's Point, Kennebunkport, ME, summer home of 41st President of the United States George H. W. Bush.

The lone red seat in the right field bleachers (Section 42, Row 37, Seat 21) signifies the longest home run ever hit at Fenway. The home run, hit by Ted Williams on June 9, 1946, was officially measured at 502 feet. The ball struck a fan in the head. "I couldn't see the ball. Nobody could. The sun was right in our eyes," Joseph A. Boucher said as reported in the Boston Globe the next day.

Trayvon Martin Hoodie Memorial. Matthew Hincman created the guerilla artwork "Still, 2014" on a lamppost at the corner of Eliot and Centre streets in Jamaica Plain, MA. Trayvon Martin, the unarmed African-American teenager who was gunned down in 2012 while walking though a Florida neighborhood talking on his cellphone by a racist neighborhood watch coordinator.

The Smoot is a nonstandard, humorous unit of length created as part of an MIT fraternity prank. Named after Oliver R. Smoot, Lambda Chi Alpha pledge, who in October 1958 lay down repeatedly on the Harvard Bridge (between Boston and Cambridge, Massachusetts) so that his fraternity brothers could use his height to measure the length of the bridge.

John Havard statue, aka, Statue of Three Lies. It is not John Havard, he was not the founder, and the date the school was founded was not 1638 (it should be 1636).

Located in the Boston Commons, "Make Way for Ducklings" was inpired by the Robert McCloskey book. Apparently there is a tradition of reading the book at the annual Robinson Center retreat Brock attends.

Copp's Hill Burying Ground. Capt. Daniel Malcolm died October 23, 1769 and is buried at Copp's Hill Burying Ground across the road from Old North. Because of his reputation as a smuggler, he wasn't well liked by the British authorities and before he died, he requested that his body be buried ten feet below ground to make it difficult for his enemies to disturb his remains. During the occupation of Boston, British troops used Capt. Malcolm's tombstone for target practice. Over 200 years later, you can still see where the musket balls penetrated the tombstone.

All Saints Way. Peter Baldassari's collection has grown into a street side shrine, a display of the canonized including photos, statues, prayer cards, and more in an alley between 4 and 8 Battery Street in Boston's North Side.

4 Garden Court St., 1890 birthplace of Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy, JFK's mother.

Will, our Fenway Park tour guide, also answers questions at the Old North Church.

Steaming Kettle. A Boston landmark since 1873, when it was hung over the door of the Oriental Tea Co at 57 Court St. The teashop held a contest to determine how much tea the giant kettle might hold. The answer ? awarded with a chest of premium tea ? was 227 gallons, two quarts, one pint and three gills. Starbucks is now below.

William Dawes tomb marker in King's Chapel Burying Ground. On the night of April 18, 1775, two Sons of Liberty raced on horseback from Boston to warn residents that the British regulars were on the march toward Lexington and Concord. While Paul Revere rode into history, his fellow rider, William Dawes, galloped into undeserved oblivion.

What a wicked city! Been a long time since I lived in the Northeast, but the phrase "wicked" is still alive and kicking. Heard in the past 24 hours: Wicked Smart (smaaht), Wicked Ingenious, Wicked Helpful, Wicked Hard (haahd), Wicked Cool, Wicked Tasty, Wicked Fresh, Wicked Pissa (not sure what that means other than a good thing).

MAR 2018 G-POD

Boston - 21 MAR 2018