Cheers, ( it looks nothing like the bar on TV), Bunker Hill, (the battle was actually fought on Breeds Hill) and the ship, USS Constitution. We only had one day and that took up the entire day. Did get to go to MIT so I can truthfully say I went to MIT.

Well, right there in Cambridge, you'll find The Coop (which is basically the student co-op and the bookstore for the University). If you run across a little sandwich shop called Elsie's, keep it in mind for lunchtime. Their Turkey Deluxe sandwich is a timeless favorite. Memorial Church in Harvard Yard doubles as a monument to the Harvard graduates who died in the Civil War, and the stained glass windows are beautiful. Widener Library at Harvard Yard is the central library building. It was named after Harry Widener, who drowned in the sinking of the Titanic. His mother endowed the library (which is now the largest university library system in the world) on the condition that every Harvard student had to know how to swim. Which Harry did not. This is not a joke -- well, it is a joke, but it's also true. During freshman orientation I had to prove that I could swim two lengths of an Olympic-sized swimming pool. (This is apparently comparable to the distance that Harry needed to swim to get to a life boat, but could not.) And I swear I'm not making that up. The Fogg Museum of Art is a real treasure if you're into art museums. If you head towards Boston on Massachusetts Avenue, you'll find the MIT campus. (Or, as we called it, that trade school down the street.) If you're there, be sure to check out the Harvard Bridge. You'll see that it is measured in something called "smoots." It's a widely recognized international unit of measurement. The name refers to Oliver Smoot, who was an MIT undergraduate in 1958, when he and his fraternity brothers got really, really drunk and decided to measure the bridge to see how long it was in smoots. Mr. Smoot was roughly 5'7" tall, but he apparently passed out half-way through this little exercise and so his frat brothers had to flip him end over end to complete their measurements. This introduced a degree of uncertainty into their measurement, so the final smoot length total on the bridge is give as + or - one ear. This is what MIT students do when they're inebriated. Interestingly, Mr. Smoot went on to become a lawyer and eventually the head of the American National Standards Institute. Which sets the standards for weights and measures. This is not a joke. (Well, again, it is a joke, but it's also true.) The Freedom Trail in Boston will take you by most (and pretty much all) of the great sights to see in Boston. Have fun -- it's a beautiful city and terrific place to visit.

Harvard's Campus itself is quite interesting and historic and includes many notable buildings including the Carpenter Art Center, the only US building by the French Architect "LeCorbusier" and a couple by Henry Hobson Richarson, the father of American Architecture. It also includes a couple of great museums of art and natural history. Nearby attractions include the City of Boston, the Boston Symphony, the ship "Old Ironsides," the freedom trail, Chinatown, the Museum of Fine Arts, the Science museum, the theater district, Beacon Hill, Fenway park. Also some regional attractions, Cape Cod, Boston's Harbor Islands, New Hampshire and Vermont with their mountains, trails, and ski areas, and the New England coast with its beaches, clam bars and lobster shacks.

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