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The
Boston History Collaborative is actively working to establish new historical
themes or trails in several areas including:
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Literary
Trail of Greater Boston: Featuring Beacon Hill, Boston Athenaeum,
Boston Public Library's Bates Hall, Longfellow House, Concord Museum,
Orchard House and Walden Pond. Opened 3-6-1999 Trolley tour &
Self-guiding.
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Boston
by Sea: The Maritime Trail: The Maritime Trail: An on water and land
trail highlighting Boston Light, Fort Warren on Georges Island, USS
Constitution, Inner Harbor Harborwalk, New England Aquarium, &
Tea Party Ship. Tours seven days a week Memorial Day through October
9th. The tour will depart from Long Wharf in Boston aboard a Boston
Harbor Cruise boat at 1 p.m. and again at 3 p.m. daily.
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Family
History and Immigrant Trail Project: Several Projects: A website helping
Americans find their family roots who migrated through, or lived in,
Boston (1 in 4 Americans have a Boston root). Also, a series of virtual
trails tied to local ethnic associations as well as to neighborhood
historical societies to be ready for Fall '99. Also a single multicultural
Trail to be inaugurated in 2000 featuring the new Boston Immigration
Museum, Irish Famine Memorial, Vilna Shul, Holocaust Memorial and
Chinatown.
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The
Innovation Trail: Boston Ideas which have transformed all of our Lives:
A Trail which highlights Boston's unique contributions to the worlds
of technology, finance, and medicine from the invention of the Telephone
and Internet to modern surgery and the commercial bank and mutual
fund. Special Group tours can be arranged through the Collaborative.
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An
Abolition to Civil Rights Project: Celebrates both the rich heritage
and the social, political and cultural contributions of Greater Boston's
African American community over the course of three centuries, developing
from the Museum of Afro American History and the Black Heritage Trail
on Beacon Hill.
If
you would like to help please contact us:
Dr.
Robert M. Krim
Boston
History Collaborative
175 Berkeley Street
Boston, MA 02117
Phone: (617) 574-5950
Fax: (617) 574-6689
e-mail: [email protected]
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