Massachusetts: Celebrating the centuries
Since the Pilgrims stepped ashore at Plymouth Rock almost four hundred years ago, Massachusetts has been at the center of American history and culture. Although the area of Massachusetts is small (just 7,800 square miles – tiny compared to Texas’s 260,000 square miles), it would be difficult to find a place which offers a greater wealth of historic sites, cultural treasures and scenic beauty.
From Cape Cod and the Islands in the east to the Berkshire Hills in the western part of the state, your group will travel through a landscape rich in history, sprinkled with charming towns with white-steepled churches on the village green, and enjoy three centuries of architecture.
Every visitor feels like a time traveler at Plimoth Plantation, a remarkable living history museum which is a recreation of the English village of 1627, as well as a Wampanoag Indian homesite. Each person you encounter in the village is impersonating an actual resident of Plimoth in 1627 and will be delighted to talk about their life in the village, the challenges they face, and their reasons for coming to the New World.
Of course, you will also want to include a stop at Plymouth Rock and the Mayflower II, which first sailed across the Atlantic in 1957 in the wake of those first intrepid Pilgrims.
Traveling north of Boston, the town of Salem offers visitors a very different glimpse of American history. A lovely seaside town, Salem is best known for the witch trials of 1692, commemorated in the Salem Witch Museum. There is much more to see here, including the House of the Seven Gables immortalized by Nathaniel Hawthorne, but the witch trials put Salem on the map over 300 years ago, and this dark chapter in American history still draws thousands of visitors each year.
Boston is a magnificent, modern city, but its roots are in the American Revolution. It was here that the Battle of Bunker Hill was fought (you can’t miss the monument towering about he harbor), and the Old North hurch still reminds us of the midnight ride of Paul Revere.
By Alice Gregory
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Courtesy of leisuregrouptravel.com
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