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Boston on Foot Boston Is, After Pole, and the Green All, Considered the Monster, to Name a Few 85282 AALL Spectrum.apr 3/26/04 12:00 PM Page 18 Pack Good Walking Shoes Boston is an eminently walkable city. In fact, you can span the main part of it during a leisurely stroll. This is perhaps the best way to see the sights up close and in a relaxed fashion. If you were to consider the city a hub, like Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. did, imagine the center of the hub being the convention center. (There actually is a plaque embedded in the pavement in a downtown location depicting the true center, but for convenience purposes we’ll assume the convention center as the starting point). Get familiar with the points of the compass, and follow along. You’ll only need a few hours in any direction to discover a world of intrigue and interest. Credits: FayFoto/Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau/BostonUSA.com Bureau/BostonUSA.com Visitors & Boston Convention FayFoto/Greater Credits: Go West Walk over the Harvard Bridge (on Massachusetts Avenue) A few blocks to the west on Commonwealth to get a sweeping view of Boston’s skyline, as well as an he 97th AALL Annual Meeting and up-close gander at the only bridge measured in smoots. Avenue is the area known as Kenmore Conference, “Boston to Mumbai— Square, home to nightclubs, restaurants, T The World of Legal Information,” thousands of Boston University students will be held on July 10-14 in the John B. (when classes are in session), and a baseball Hynes Veterans Memorial Convention club called the Red Sox. Left off Center, located in Boston’s historic Back Bay Commonwealth and down Brookline neighborhood. While the convention offers Avenue a bit sits a world of legal venerable Fenway Park, information, Boston the location of the Curse, in the summer offers the Impossible Dream, a world of adventure. Duffy’s Cliff, Pesky’s Boston on Foot Boston is, after Pole, and the Green all, considered the Monster, to name a few. “Hub of the Planning to come Explore Boston’s Universe,” and early? The Sox have a radiating in all home stand July 6–11, Historic and Cultural directions are links playing Oakland and Treasures with Simply to historic and Texas. If you order picturesque sights tickets ahead or show up Your Own Two Feet both near and far. alone or in pairs, you’ll For those convention probably get in. You can by John Pedini attendees who want experience the oldest some brief and Major League ballpark— casual diversions, we visit a place where guys have assembled the like Cy, Yaz, Teddy following suggestions Ballgame, and Pudge for your enjoyment, played and check out the beginning with places Green Monster, a 37- within walking foot-tall left field wall distance. In next Bureau/BostonUSA.com Visitors & Boston Convention FayFoto/Greater Creidts: (now crowned with month’s Spectrum, The famous and popular Faneuil Hall Marketplace seats). If you can’t get we will feature longer (now called Quincy Market), with its busy warrens into a game, tours are excursions by train or car. of charming food stalls, restaurants, and boutique shops, offers live performances of all kinds every day available 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. If you want a more around noon. and come highly organized experience, you recommended. may want to investigate the “Tours and Excursions” section of the Go South convention program. But for those of you What’s that you say, baseball’s not your style? who love to explore on your own, read on. Head due south of the convention center Where available, Web sites to the attractions and you will walk right into the Mother mentioned are listed on page 20. Church, the world headquarters of the First 18 AALL Spectrum Magazine April 2004 © 2004 John Pedini 85282 AALL Spectrum.apr 3/26/04 12:00 PM Page 19 Church of Christ, Scientist. Outside the district—eight blocks of international up-close gander at the only bridge measured main buildings is a giant reflecting pool fashion, fine dining, art galleries, obscure in smoots. and fountains. Inside is the world-famous artifacts, antiques, and jewelry, as well as On the other side of the Charles is Mapparium, a three-story stained glass Avenue Victor Hugo, a landmark bookstore the campus of the Massachusetts Institute globe that has the map of the world as it specializing in rare and used books. Besides of Technology and the geographical was in 1935. Visitors can walk through the shopping and dining experience, you beginning of the “People’s Republic” of the globe and marvel at its amazing visual can enjoy the architecture of the brownstone Cambridge. If you’re feeling adventurous, and acoustical properties (sounds are rowhouses and classic late-19th century a 15-minute walk north on Massachusetts exaggerated in the glass sphere—a whisper buildings. Avenue will bring you through the heart can be heard from several yards away). Stepping a few blocks north, you’ll of that city and into Harvard Square Head west along Huntington Avenue reach the grande dame of Boston walkways, with an ever-changing array of shops and (past Symphony Hall and the Huntington the Commonwealth Avenue Mall. From restaurants, as well as the storied campus Theater), and you come upon the two the imperious likeness of Leif Eriksson of Harvard University. inspiring cultural gems of the area, the (complete with runic inscriptions) gazing Museum of Fine Arts and the Isabella west at the Charlesgate end, to a galloping Go East Stewart Gardner Museum, the latter with George Washington at the entrance to the To get outside and begin a proper walking its enchanting courtyard. Behind the Public Gardens, the mall is dotted with tour eastward, start at the main entrance to Gardner is Simmons College where many statues of prominent figures in Boston’s the convention center on Boylston Street. a law librarian got his or her degree. Across history. Leif Eriksson?—it’s a long story. This broad, busy street can take you all from Simmons is a modest expanse of The mall is a fine way to traverse the way into Chinatown and the Theater water, grass, and woods called the Fens. the breadth of one of Boston’s most District. Along the way there are many attractions, fine and funky restaurants, all types of shopping, and the hustle and bustle of people going about their business. The first encounter of note along Boylston Street is the Boston Public Library, with its modern entrance to the General Library (Johnson building) and the adjoining Research Library (the classic renaissance revivalist McKim building). Library management encourages first-time visitors to enter the General Library and familiarize themselves with the floor plan and the collection. Then one can travel by way of an interior courtyard to the older building and marvel at its beauty and many exhibit rooms. Swan Boats and Cobblestones Due east of Copley Square, along Boylston Street, is the beginning of the Boston Public Garden, with its trademark swan boats drifting lazily along an idyllic pond Creidts: FayFoto/Greater Boston Convention & Visitors Bureau/BostonUSA.com Bureau/BostonUSA.com Visitors & Boston Convention FayFoto/Greater Creidts: ringed by giant weeping willows and Due east of Copley Square, along Boylston Street, is the beginning of the Boston Public Garden, with its trademark swan boats ornamental flower beds. Not too grand drifting lazily along an idyllic pond ringed by giant weeping willows and ornamental flower beds. or elaborate, the Public Garden allows sweeping views and intimate peeks, whether On a warm summer day, one could enjoy distinguished residential sections, view you see the skyline from behind the mighty lingering in this tranquil part of town. exquisite architecture, and even get a chance trees or find squirrels and ducks who For more excitement, walk back to to experience Boston’s only attempt at urban have trained humans to feed them. Symphony Hall, continue south down planning—alphabetically named streets in a Next to the Public Garden is the Boston Massachusetts Avenue, and you’ll find predetermined grid pattern! Common, a more utilitarian stretch of yourself in the beginning of Boston’s South If you want to get a good river view, green that since 1634 has served as a public End, a vibrant neighborhood featuring the walk another three blocks north to the cattle-grazing area; a location for public largest collection of bowfront rowhouses in Charles River, whose grassy banks include executions, parades, militia drills, and the United States, as well as many intimate bike and jogging paths, playgrounds, anti-war demonstrations; and even hosted a galleries, nightclubs, and modern eateries. and the world-famous Hatch Shell, the visit from Pope John Paul II. The Common scene of the Fourth of July Boston Pops includes a frog pond that doubles as an ice Go North extravaganza. Go the other way and rink in winter, a large playground, and a Taking a northerly tack from the you can walk over the Harvard Bridge Visitor’s Information Center. This is a place convention center brings you immediately (Massachusetts Avenue) and get a sweeping to discover more historic attractions and into the Newbury Street shopping view of Boston’s skyline, as well as an find out where the Freedom Trail begins. AALL Spectrum Magazine April 2004 19 85282 AALL Spectrum.apr 3/26/04 12:00 PM Page 20 Just north of the Common begins the with its busy warrens of charming food venerable neighborhood of Beacon Hill, stalls, restaurants, and boutique shops, Explore Online a landmark once nearly three times its offers live performances of all kinds every Visit these Web sites to learn original size until much of the land was day around 12 p.m.
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