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With TCM’s kind permission, Wandering Raleighite and I will be blogging our travels along U.S. 1 over the next nine days.

Most of our trip will be spent along U.S. 1 from Pennsylvania to the Canadian border. Time permitting, we’ll also stop in Baltimore before returning to Raleigh.

We’re now in Boston. Our plans had to be adjusted because our U.S. Air flight into Manchester, N.H., was delayed. By the time we got on the free shuttle to Boston, we were more than two hours behind schedule. BTW, Wandering Raleighite says he will never take U.S. Air again.

We made the best of the abbreviated amount of daylight to walk through the Theater District, the outskirts of Boston Commons and the Copley Square area. It was basically a trip around part of Boston’s downtown area.

Many of Boston’s historic theaters opened at the turn of the 20th Century. The Shubert Theatre opened in 1910. Over the years, legendary performers such as Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman and Henry Fonda have performed there.

We then walked along Boston Commons, home to some of the most important events that culminated in the American Revolution. We saw a monument dedicated to the discovery of ether in Boston in 1846. We also encountered monuments to other greats of American history, including George Washington and Wendell Phillips.

At nearby Commonwealth Mall, we ran into monuments for modern heroes, including one for nine firefighters who were killed responding to a blaze in 1972.

As the daylight dimmed, we ran across historic treasures such as Old South Church, Trinity Church and the Boston Public Library.

Come back tomorrow to hear what happens we walk the Freedom Trail and visit the U.S.S. Constitution.

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