This large extension to the State House was
built in recent times. According to the guide, the flags were added as
acoustic treatment to tame the echoes!
Once outside, we were assailed by a most
unlikely kind of tour bus; an amphibious 'duck'.
The trail is still wet...
Just beyond the Park Street church designed by the
English architect, Peter Banner is the Granary burial ground, where many of
the heroes of the revolutionary period lie.
You won't forget where you are, reminders are embedded in
the pavement.
Sorry,
sidewalk.
The Boston five cents building. Mmmm try
opening an account now with that.
Below are a few images of our walkabout. The
history is documented elsewhere.
The Old South Meeting House, scene of the revolution by
the new English against the tea tax set by the old English of the time.
I like the spiral staircase.
I do have a weakness for recording anything that I find
slightly out of place, or absurd.
The New England Holocaust Monument is neither.
It is both dramatic and intimate and takes on a very
different look after dark. Each of the six towers are six stories high and
they are engraved with six million random numbers symbolising the victims of
the concentration camps.
The numbers can be discerned here.
A slight mist emerges from the gratings in the floor
through which can be seen tiny pin points of light.
The souls of the departed.
Very
poignant.
We were soon in the Italian sector; clear to see from the
signpost here.
