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Yay Massachusetts!
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Dec 1, 2012 7:33am
WOOT!
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Reply to: #746952 by Sano2pop
Dec 1, 2012 12:20pm
Love "Make Way for Ducklings" at the bottom. Super cute and great touch!
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Reply to: #746965 by The Groundhogs
Dec 4, 2012 7:36am
This is the view of Boston Harbor. That building with the arch in the middle (it's an odd angle to see, I know...) is the Boston Harbor Hotel.
Great job on the theme!! I grew up there and still learned some things :) Need to spen time as a tourist again soon.
IrishInks
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Reply to: #747386 by IrishInks
Dec 4, 2012 8:24am
I believe the multi-deck ship in the picture is the Odyssey cruise ship, which does dinner cruises around the harbor. It's great to go on that cruise in July, when there's a balmy ocean breeze. I've also been on it in December for a company holiday party. It's best to avoid it in December unless you love icy blasts of wind!
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Reply to: #746952 by Sano2pop
Dec 4, 2012 8:37am
But why today? It's not statehood day...
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Reply to: #747399 by marrtians
Dec 4, 2012 8:50am
I post a new state theme the first week of every month. =)
-- Ryan
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Reply to: #747404 by Green Tortuga
Dec 4, 2012 10:40am
And I thought the banner was any Port City, USA. Sorry Boston. (I won't call it Beantown, if you don't call California Cali!)
Maybe Fenway would be better... or pictures of all of the famous people from MA.
Old Blue
who loves the restaurants in Boston
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Reply to: #747419 by DoubleSaj and Old Blue
Dec 4, 2012 11:09am
You could do catagories of famous people from Massachusetts:
Founding Fathers -- Ben Franklin, John Adams, John Hancock, Paul Revere and Sam Adams
Actors - Ben Afflack, Matt Damon, Betty Davis, Geena Davis, Jack Lemon and many more
Comedians - Bill Cosby, Jay Leno amd Conan O'Brian
Artists - Norman Rockwell and Daniel Chester French
Business Al Davis, Eli Whitney and Howard Johnson
Liturature - Ralph Waldo Emerson, Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr., Dr. Seuss, Edgar Alan Poe and beau coup more
Old Blue
commenting on my comment
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Reply to: #747419 by DoubleSaj and Old Blue
Dec 4, 2012 11:27am
But. . .they kinda like when you call it Beantown. . .
and i spent 6 of my growing up years in CA and never call it Cali. what a weird term.
The other 10 years were spent in the western end of MA, on the other side of the state from "the land of Boston, home of the bean and the cod, where Cabots talk only to Lodges, and Lodges talk only to God."
~tigs(see? i learned human postal early)
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Reply to: #747404 by Green Tortuga
Dec 4, 2012 11:12pm
Once, many years ago, SWMBO and I were bicycling around Massachusetts. Basically following the coastline, I showed her the map and the GIANT yellow area that is Boston and asked, "Do you want to go around it or through it?" Going around looked like a LONG ways out of our way, and that's serious business when you're pedalling. She said "Let's go through it." We hadn't even gotten seriously into it yet when she said "I've changed my mind! Let's go around!" (Did I mention that we hate cities?) It was too late, of course, we were committed by that point. She later made me promise to never let her make such a stupid decision again.
As long as we were in it, she asked "That tea party thing happened here, right? Can we see where?" I did a bit of checking, and sure enough there was a location described as where the Boston Tea Party occurred, so that's where we headed. That was a bit of a disillusionment, since we were envisioning the sort of place where a wooden sailing ship would be docked for unloading goods, but of course the spot was actually a bronze marker along a modern bridge with city traffic whizzing by all around.
As long as we were in it, she asked "That tea party thing happened here, right? Can we see where?" I did a bit of checking, and sure enough there was a location described as where the Boston Tea Party occurred, so that's where we headed. That was a bit of a disillusionment, since we were envisioning the sort of place where a wooden sailing ship would be docked for unloading goods, but of course the spot was actually a bronze marker along a modern bridge with city traffic whizzing by all around.