On Fri, 15 Sep 2006, Uri Guttman wrote: > >>>>> "MV" == Minh Vo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > MV> If you haven't seen Blueman Group, they have a show at 2pm > MV> on Oct. 22nd. Very "interesting" show... > > you may not realize that blue man started in nyc (where dave and mom > live) and so they could see it there. also we still don't know the > time window of the port visit. assuming mostly daytime, i doubt an > evening show will work for them.
Good thing he specified 2pm then :-) > we just need to point them to boston stuff which doesn't have much of > a counterpart in nyc. Vaguely moving from west to east (i.e. probably backwards...), here's some ideas: If the Red Sox are *not* playing, you can take a tour of Fenway Park (which I personally found more fun than a game, but then I'm not into baseball). You get to go to the press box, on top of the Green Monster, and behind home plate. Sadly, they don't let you go on the field though. http://boston.redsox.mlb.com/NASApp/mlb/bos/ballpark/tour.jsp As a kid I really liked the Mapparium at the Christian Science center. The exhibit got renovated a few years ago, and when I went back to see it again a couple of years ago, I still liked the globe itself, but not so much the museum they had for the CS stuff. Oh well. http://www.marybakereddylibrary.org/exhibits/mapparium.jhtml The old/original wing of the Boston Public Library (the McKim Building, I've just learned) is cool. An art-student friend visited a few years ago and was content to just hang out there for several hours, looking at the building itself, the books, and the free exhibits upstairs. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boston_Public_Library Also on Copley Square is Trinity Church, which I keep meaning to go walk around some day. The outside is fantastic. Hm, maybe I'll go there today now that I think about it... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity_Church%2C_Boston Also on or near Copley Square are the John Hancock and Prudential towers. The John Hancock Tower was one of the first all-glass skyscrapers in the world, and took a few years post-construction to get right (huge panes of glass falling 60 stories onto the sidewalk, the slow realization that a good stong gust could knock the whole building over, etc -- the usual). It's the tallest building in the city and so used to have the best views of it, but the observation deck closed after Sept 11, so the Prudential Center's Skywalk Observatory is now the highest place to get views of the city. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Hancock_Tower http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prudential_Tower http://www.prudentialcenter.com/play/skywalk.html If you're going to do a Duck Tour, the tours start from the Prudential Center, the Museum of Science, or Faneuil Hall. http://www.bostonducktours.com/tickets_main.html http://www.prudentialcenter.com/play/ducktours.html I'm not sure what a good vantage point is to see it, but the new Zakim Bridge is impressive. You can see if fairly close from the Museum of Science and the USS Constitution, and closer still from the EF Building (which also has a big slab from the Berlin Wall on public display out front); if you take a Duck Boat tour, I think they go pretty close to the, as well as the Berlin Wall piece. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zakim_Bunker_Hill_Bridge http://www.leonardpzakimbunkerhillbridge.org/ http://www.google.com/maps?q=ef+education&near=Boston,+MA&cid=42358333,-71060278,357515942939126501 (The Google map gets the EF spot slightly off -- across from the Museum of Science, on the other side of the Green Line causeway bridge, the EF Building is straight ahead on the right side of the street. Zoom the map all the way in and, though it isn't clear what you're looking at, the Berlin Wall segment is visible to the left of the cluster of trees and to the right of the patio in front of the building, casting a shadow onto the patio. http://www.google.com/maps?q=ef+education&near=Boston,+MA&cid=42358333,-71060278,357515942939126501&ll=42.369438,-71.071064&spn=0.00151,0.00239&t=h http://karl.hiramoto.org/photo-album/2001/ed-jo-pictures-summer2001/2%20July%2001%20Boston-Kate/tn/Berlin%20Wall.jpg.html Ah, it looks like the Head of the Charles (rowing / sculling regatta) is that weekend, that might be worth checking out. You can see it from either side of the river, starting downstream near the BU Boathouse, upstream past Harvard to the finish line Herter Park. Alternately, if this isn't your cuppa tea, you may wish to avoid the race route and nearby areas (e.g. Harvard Square), as they'll probably be mobbed. http://www.hocr.org/home/default.asp http://www.hocr.org/pdf/shuttlen.pdf -- Chris Devers _______________________________________________ Boston-pm mailing list [email protected] http://mail.pm.org/mailman/listinfo/boston-pm
