Boston

I have a 2-week job in the Boston area, so I flew north to the frigid tundra while Nan waits for me in Florida. Today is Saturday so I took a trolley tour around Boston. The tour was $42 which was worth it, but the nearby parking garage was $35. That seemed a little steep. The tour guide had an interesting story about Paul Revere and his midnight ride in 1775. Apparently Paul picked up 2 other men on the way. One guy fell off his horse and broke his leg. Paul got captured by the British. The other man, Samuel Prescott, finished the ride and warned the people that the British were coming. Then in 1861 Henry Wadsworth Longfellow decided to write a poem about the midnight ride. Unfortunately for Samuel, not much rhymes with Prescott. But there are a lot of words that rhyme with Revere. As a result, Paul Revere got all the credit. In Boston they also have a statue of Christopher Columbus who was a slave trader that decided to call Native Americans indians only because he was lost. But that's a whole other story.