1

  • Hazzah—Fie
  • Special Occassion?
  • Many 1sts ; —public park—marathon—public school—subway system—NHL team from USA—face transplant

1-2

  • Italian Toast Salute
  • How many kids did Revere have?

2-3

3-4

  • Let's conquer Cape Cod.
  • What do the cables remind you of?
  • Who won the Battle of Bunker Hill?
  • Where was the BofBH fought?
  • The Town; Ben Afflec & Jeremy Renner

4-5

  • Some of my best friends talk to...
  • BOSTON;
    Who was 1st NHL team from the USA?
    Who played in the 1st NHL hockey Game in USA?
    Who set the team record last year for most wins?
    Who set the team record last year for most points?
    Who was kocked out in the first round?
  • Shawmut. In 1621 Sachem Chickatawbut met Plymouth Colony commander Myles Standish at Moswetuset Hummock, in Squantum. Mattapan, Neponset, Punkagoag, Chappaquiddick, Merrimack River, Nantasket Beach
  • England not Protestant enough. Many tried to reform the church. Some wanted to form their own religion—illegal. Some were very radical and on the fringes of society. Royal official arrested them.
  • John Winthrop lead one group as a corporation and charter themselves in the new world. Arbella & 11 ships & 1000 Puritans. John Winthrop "They were to be an example for the rest of the world in rightful living." The other colonies were business ventures, planations, or a place for England to dump thier unwanted, outcasts, and fanatics. Blackstone was naked
  • Curley; Irish poor, uneducated.
    City Hosp, Parks, Antagonistic to Prod

5-6

  • Massacre—Boston Historians call "a wicked big deal"
  • Puritan didn't believe in religious icons or imagery, but...
    -tombstones were artistic expression of their beliefs about the afterlife.
    -a popular motifs was the "Soul Effigy," or "death's head"
    -elaborate scroll work, poetic epitaphs, and depictions of the Grim Reaper and Father Time
  • HAZZAH. to Sam Adams
  • Old Granary; Peter Fanuel
  • Who is buried in Franklin's tomb
  • Jay walking—Good judgment comes from experience, and experience—well that comes from poor judgment!
  • Irish; Famine. Bottom of list. No $ to move on. Overwhelm Boston. Controlled by Prods—Anti-catholic, anti-Irish. Gov'=admin. Irish Need Not Apply. McGinniskins. Shanty Irish. Riots/burning. Ward Bosses. Servants. Laborers. after Civil War. Built Boston wealth. Honey Fitz/Curley. Irish=gov't (group loyalty), Prods=banks.
    —2 candidates with same name
    —Prod canvasser to Irish woman
    JFK, Dennis Lehane, Connie Mack, Ben Affleck, BC, Boston Celtics,
  • Center of commerce and technical innovation, Machine shops, patent lawyers.
    Elihu Thomson—electric welding, arc lighting, electric street railways, stereoscopic x-rays
    –First computer with a operational memoery was developed here from a series of inventions at MIT and Harvard that build off each other.
  • Tech Square; Electronics and computers 1950s; Draper Labs, Polaroid, The World Wide Web Consortium. '94, Facebook, '04
  • Liberty Hotel; WW2 Germans,

6-7

  • Brahmin Caste; Elite and high society; Led the country in science, business, industrial revolution, medicine, social movements, education, arts and literature, municipal developments (utilities/subway), recreational life, domestic life.
    Horace Mann / Perkins SFTB / Fanny Farmer / Mary Foley / BAA
    And this is good old Boston,
    The home of the bean and the cod,
    Where the Lowells talk only to Cabots,
    And the Cabots talk only to God
  • Is that Norm in the window?

7-8

  • We know your name!
  • Uncle murph
  • Feidler "I know, I'll use 1812"
  • Mass Ave Bridge is
    24,414 inches,
    2,034 feet,
    678 yards,
    ? meters
    How many Smoots? —365.4 and an ear
  • Sweet Caroline
    —Good times never seemed so good
    I've been inclined
    —To believe they never would

8-9

  • Tallest Bldg in continental US in 1967?
  • Sing solo—at Berklee
  • Gardner checks your ID

9-10

  • Who loves Italian food? Eataly; ABUNDANZA

10-11

  • Marathon = Nike!!
  • Blown Away: Tommy Lee Jones

11-12

  • Boston Traffic-Labyrinth; Many ways to get from place to place; Traffic changes; parochial villages; Change lanes as driver sees the situation has changed, Rule #1 don't get in the way; Red lights=suggestions; If someone is not moving, go around; Stuck before your a left hand turn—you can jump into the other lane if you are 4 cars away;
  • MJ O'C -uncle murph
  • Sainte-O'Connors
  • lenny clark, steve sweeney, bobcat goldswaith, Kevin Meaney, Denis Leary, Steven Wright, Paula Poundstone, Jimmy Tingle, Paul Nardizzi, Norm Crosby, Bill Burr, Steven Wright, Amy Pohler, Joe Rogan, Dane Cook

12-13

  • Rember 1 if by land 2 if by sea?
  • Gilbert Suart
  • Founders of American literature—they made Boston, a hub of culture, art, education, and high-minded thinking in the mid-1800s
  • Athens of America / Hub of the Universe / Sat Literary Club
  • Classic American literature and poetry; Little Women, Paul Revere's Ride, or The Scarlet Letter, The Atlantic Monthly. Transindentalist movement by Bronson Alcott
  • Boston Common
    State House
    Park Street Church
    Atheneum
    Old Granary BG
    Kings Chapel BG
    Otis Mansion
    Nichols House Museum
    Kings Chapel
    Downtown Crossing
    Freedom Trail
    Black Heritage Museum
    Museum of African American History
    Dunkin Donuts

13-14

  • Fanny Farmer, Helen Keller
  • Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Adams, John Hancock, Ralph Waldo Emerson, John F. Fitzgerald, Joseph P. Kennedy, Father of President John F. KennedyLeonard Bernstein
  • BTP=most important event in history; Printing Press, Fall of Rome, Electricity, Led Zeppelin
  • Free Guy; Ryan Reynolds
  • Adams Looks good
  • Boston Children's Museum; What's the big deal, I have 3 Boston children that sit around on their devises. My kids are great. They don't give me a hard time at all. That's because, when they were younger I said "these are the rules, If you don't like it, you're old enough to run away from home."

14-1

  • Necco wafers?
  • Evacuation Day; Mar 17, 1776
    June '75; Brit general plans to fortify hills; Battle BH. Siege, Brit low on supplies/small pox; skirmishes; Wash organizes army and plans attacks; Knox; cannons arrive Feb; Mar 4 (night) Dot Heights; Mar 8-Note to Wash; Howe Plans attack; Evac March 17
  • Won't get schrod in Boston, unless you ask for it.
  • Uncle Murph—Black Rose

1

  • Stop 1 Fanuel Hall, North End, Aquarium,
  • And the end of my tour. Thanks for coming to Boston, Thank you for taking my tour. I hope you enjoyed taking it as much as I enjoy giving it.
  • (You know, if I get reincarnated, I hope I come back as a tour guide, again.)
  • That's it for me. My name is Murph.
  • MUSIC 23
  • If the creek don't rise and the good Lord's willing, and I don't get a call from the Bruins asking me to play, I'll be here again tomorrow with so if you have the half price 2 day pass, I'll see you tomorrow.
  • Love ghost stories? What better place than a 400 year old cemetary? You can do that right here–G&G
  • also, if you're staying here for a few days. We have relationships with different museums, like BTSM, View Boston, New England sports Museum, talk to our sales men here at stop 1 for discounts.
  • Also, also, if you're traveling around the country, OTT is in San Diego, Nashville, ST. Augustine's, Key West, Wash DC, Savannah, and Austin.
  • Stop 1 Fanuel Hall, North End, Aquarium, The next tour begins right over there.
  • I am available to answer any questions you have.
  • We don't say good by in Boston. We say—Get out of here, would you.