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Some of the Many Area Attractions
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Fenway Park
is the home of the
Boston Red Sox and America’s most beloved ballpark.
Fenway Park remains open to fans of baseball since
1912, standing as the oldest Major League Baseball
park currently in use. Fenway Park is also a concert
venue, hosting such acts as Pearl Jam, Dropkick
Murpheys, Bruce Springsteen, Paul McCartney, Phish,
Aerosmith, Willy Nelson and The Mighty Mighty
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A trip to
Old Sturbridge Village,
the largest outdoor history museum in the Northeast,
is a journey through time to a rural New England
town of the 1830s. Visitors are invited into more
than 40 original buildings, each carefully
researched, restored, and brought to the museum site
from towns throughout New England. These include
homes, meetinghouses, a district school, country
store, bank, law office, printing office, carding
mill, sawmill, gristmill, pottery, blacksmith shop,
shoe shop, and cooper shop. |
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You’ve never toured
Boston in anything that comes close to
Boston Duck
Tours. The fun begins as soon as
you board your "DUCK", a W.W.II style amphibious
landing vehicle. You'll cruise by all the places
that make Boston the birthplace of freedom and a
city of firsts, from the golden-domed State House to
Bunker Hill and the TD Banknorth Garden, Boston
Common and Copley Square to the Big Dig, Government
Center to fashionable Newbury Street, Quincy Market
to the Prudential Tower, and more. |
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The Garden in
the Woods
is an ever-changing
living museum — New England’s premier wildflower
garden — and has more than 1,000 native plant
species, with many rare and endangered native
specimens throughout the gardens, as well as the
unique “New England Garden of Rare and Endangered
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Your visit to Boston must include a walk into
history along
The Freedom Trail.
You can start in the beginning, the middle or the
end and wend your way through the streets of this
very modern city — Boston — and along the paths of
history. This is Boston’s indoor / outdoor history
museum. There are 16 “official” sites of the Freedom
Trail! You’ll want to visit every one! |
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Take a trip to
The New England
Aquarium,
with exotic waters and
experience more than 70 exhibits featuring aquatic
animals from around the world. Greet the African
penguins as you enter, feel the smooth wing of a
cownose ray and then wind your way around the
four-story Giant Ocean Tank, home to a huge
Caribbean coral reef. Go out back to see
the Northern fur seals in action in their open-air
exhibit, and be sure to visit the Atlantic harbor
seals out front. |
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Gillette Stadium is a multi-purpose
stadium located in Foxborough, Massachusetts,
located 21 miles (34 kilometers) southwest of
downtown Boston and 20 miles (32 km) from
downtown Providence, Rhode Island, that serves as
the home stadium and administrative offices for
the New England Patriots football team and the New
England Revolution soccer team. In 2012, it will
also become the home stadium for the football
program of the University of Massachusetts
Amherst (UMass). |
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The Museum of Science
mission is to play a leading role in transforming
the nation's relationship with science and
technology. This role becomes ever more important as
science and technology shape and reshape our lives
and world, and it means we: Promote active
citizenship informed by the world of science and
technology Inspire lifelong appreciation of the
importance and impact of science and engineering.
Encourage young people of all backgrounds to explore
and develop their interests in understanding the
natural and human-made world. |
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The Boston
Garden (TD Garden)
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Since its grand opening in 1995, more than 30
million people have come to the TD Garden to see the
arena's famous tenants, the NHL's Boston Bruins,
NBA's Boston Celtics, and the NLL's Boston Blazers
as well as world-renowned concerts, sporting events,
family shows, wrestling, ice shows and so much more.
Home to approximately 200 public events annually,
the TD Garden hosts well over 3.5 million people
each year! |
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Don't
just learn about history — live it at
Battleship Cove,
you will experience firsthand what it was like to
serve on board a Navy warship in WWII. You can sound
the diving horn on Submarine Lionfish before you
slip below the sea...you can crank the handwheels on
Big Mamie's 40-mm guns as you knock enemy planes
from the sky. Sail through the Cold War on USS
Joseph P. Kennedy, Jr. and learn how the ship's
unmanned helicopter hunted Soviet submarines.
Whether you're a die-hard naval history buff or a
casual enthusiast of military hardware, you'll have
much to discover at Battleship Cove! |
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