Seen Around the World by
Lynda Millner
Coffee, Tea, and U.S. – Part 2
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he second week of our cruise started in Boston and ended in Quebec City, Canada. We took a quick tour of Boston since we hadn’t been there for some years. I always remember that on the 2½ mile Freedom Trail I learned the meaning of “Sleep tight. Don’t let the bedbugs bite.” We had gone into an old Colonial house, where the docent showed us a bed with leather straps to hold the bedding. They would get saggy and need to be tightened. When they were once again taut, Mom would say, “Sleep tight. Don’t let the bed bugs bite.” On the day we visited Boston, there was a Gay Pride parade, which we kept trying to dodge because of the traffic. At one point, our guide was surprised to see a giant mound of filthy snow. It was the remains of removal from the 110 inches they had the winter of 2015 and had still not melted. Historically, the Puritans were in the area in 1630 wanting religious freedom but denying it to others. It’s their fault that Boston is called “bean” town, because they baked beans after their meetings. The big tea dump, or the Boston Tea Party, was in 1773. We visited the Old North Church where the infamous lanterns were hung denoting, “One if by land, two if by sea.” There were several riders who warned the Sons of Liberty that the British were coming April 18, 1775, but Paul Revere remains famous because of “The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere” written many years later in 1860. The Old North Church is the oldest in Boston and still holds services. In the olden days, there were no benches for kneeling, and passing gas in church was a crime. Boston claims the oldest of many things including the Boston Common, which is the oldest public park, the oldest subway system in the United
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The Old North Church of Paul Revere fame
Lynda and the Montecito Journal with “John Harvard” at the University in Boston
States, the oldest botanical garden and the oldest clock tower, which has been 300 years on display in Christ’s Church. The Union Oyster House is the oldest restaurant in the U.S. The oldest public library is in Boston, and Harvard is the old-
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