Having just returned from a great learning experience in Philadelphia, it was fun then to celebrate the 4th of July. Of the different "Colonial America" places I've been to repeatedly in the East, Colonial Williamsburg is my favorite, followed by Boston (a great walking town. Beacon Hill is my favorite place. I like staying at the Holiday Inn there because it's so close to Massachusetts General Hospital's great cafeteria and then just a short run to the Charles River, where I love to run! The old cobblestone streets and original colonial homes of Beacons Hill is a favorite too).
But in a close 3rd place, comes Philadelphia. This was my 4th trip there and probably my best so far. Carol Berkin, a great history professor from NYC, taught these day-after-day seminars. She is an amazing author if you've read her, and an equally amazing instructor. The new Constitution Center was the classroom. In and of itself, it's a fabulous facility. This blog features one of many (me and Alexander Hamilton, he was small, but what a intellect) of the bronze figures in the Hall of Signers (to the Constitution) and is worthy of the time taken to visit. Also, Society Hill area, near the Holiday Inn on 4th and Arch street where I stayed, (similar to Boston's Beacon Hill) The photos with this blog are of that area.
Be well, do good...
