Epic Hikes of the World ( PDFDrive )

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cobblestoned Acorn St in the Beacon Hill district
Past King’s Chapel I wandered, saluting Benjamin Franklin en route down
School St. His statue peers down from a pedestal near the site of the Boston Latin
School, the country’s first public school, founded in 1635. Such education bore fruit
among the 19th-century writers who congregated at the nearby Old Corner
Bookstore, built around 1812 and now a Mexican restaurant. Here, poets and
novelists including Longfellow, Hawthorne, Emerson and Beecher Stowe gathered;
among the fried food and chillies, I hoped (but failed) to detect a whiff of literary
genius still.
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anchored in Boston Harbor, the 18th-century USS Constitution
They say talk is cheap. Not so in pre-independence Boston: some of the most
costly and influential was exchanged across Washington St at the Old South
Meeting House. Unlike at the former bookstore, this red-brick church built in 1729
exudes an atmosphere of past activism. Here, in the late 1760s, mutinous
mutterings against repressive British rule and taxation swelled to a roar, climaxing
in the Boston Tea Party of 1773 in which hundreds of colonialists rushed from the