The second day of the trip with Claire and Janet, we venture to the heart of Boston, Boston Common another opportunity to follow the trail of Revolutionary Boston. Boston Commons is the center of the Freedom Trail that leads out towards cemeteries, churches, monuments chronicling the people and places of the 18th C. We pass through the cemetery that houses the graves of Paul Revere and other notables. Across the street is the church where prominent families prayed.
The trail marked on the walkways leads through streets to churches cemeteries, and monuments, one these monuments again surprising me. On the Northwest corner of the Common is part of the African American trail, the tribute to Robert Shaw, the white commander of the first Black Regiment, the 54th that fought first in South Carolina. His story has been immortalized with the movie Glory.
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