Our first day in Boston we woke up a little later than planned, and headed over to Cambridge
The South Station was the station by our hotel
Lucky for us it was the one that took you straight to Harvard
Harvard Square Out of Town News stand
Before we started our walking tour we made a brekfast stop at Tory Row
Harvard Coop on the left. The name rhymes with hoop -- say "co-op" and risk being taken for a Yalie. On the right is a sign reading DEWEY CHEETHAM & HOWE (say it out loud) on the third floor of the brick building that has the Curious George sign. National Public Radio's "Car Talk" originated here.
This ho was built in 1726 as a residence for Harvard's fourth president. Its biggest claim to fame is a classic: George Washington slept here.
Harvard yard
It was a patch of grass with animals grazing on it when Harvard College was established in 1636 to train young men for the ministry, and it wasn't much more when the Continental Army spent the winter of 1775-76 here.
Mass Hall and Harvard Hall
Hollis and Stoughton halls
Holden Chapel
University Hall
John Harvard Statue - the statue of three lies
The likeness of John Harvard outside University Hall is known as the "Statue of Three Lies" because the inscription reads "John Harvard/Founder/1638." In fact, the college was founded in 1636, and Harvard (one of many benefactors) didn't establish it, but donated money and his library. What's more, this isn't even John Harvard. No portraits of him survive, so the model for the benevolent-looking bronze gentleman was, according to various accounts, either his nephew or a student.
Widener Library
Memorial Church
Sever Hall
Emerson Hall
Harvard Art Museum
Memorial Hall
Students actually have class in here. I was so very jealous.
Lunch Break - college style at the Science Center
Museum of Natural History
Semitic Museum
Christ Church
Old Burying Ground - it's the oldest in Cambridge, dating to 1635. It's the final resting place of nine Harvard presidents as well as many early settlers and at least two black Revolutionary War soldiers.
A dessert break at Burdick Chocolate
After this stop we also spent too much time at anthropologie while it rained
The Lampoon and the daily student newspaper, the Crimson, share a long history of reciprocal pranks and vandalism. Elaborate security measures notwithstanding, Crimson editors occasionally make off with the bird that you might see atop the castle (it looks like a crane but is actually an ibis), and Lampoon staffers have absconded with the huge wooden president's chair from the Crimson.
Once we were done with our walking tour we took the train and a bus to the Boston LDS temple
It has become tradition that we visit temples wherever we go. I just love this tradition of ours, even if it makes life difficult because the temples are never nearby the cities. It's fun to see how many temples we've visited already.
We did a session and then a few sealings. When we left it was very foggy because of all the rain we had gotten earlier. I was starving at this point, our bus took forever and we were afraid we had missed it, but finally it arrived. We went back to Harvard Square for dinner since it was late and things were going to be closing soon. We ended up at Casablanca for dinner.
After dinner we headed back to our hotel for some much needed sleep!
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