May 2025 (the Rest) and June 2025 (the Beginning) Dump featuring Boston, Brooklyn, and Bermuda
Summer trip one of three is complete, and it really did teach me a lot. Let's start with Boston. I really enjoyed Boston. It's obviously best-known for it's role in the lead-up to the Revolutionary War. I learned about the different people and places involved in this lead-up by taking a walking tour of the Freedom Trail, and I highly recommend it. The Freedom Trail consists of sixteen historically significant sites, and walking the trail provides a good overview of Boston's role in the early days of the revolution. So, Boston gets a 10/10 for history. Salem also gets a 10/10 for history, both in terms of its role throughout American history and its history with the witch trials. In both my tour of the Freedom Trail and my walking tour of Salem, certain themes emerged that are still relevant today. Hysteria, corruption, and hatred, not anything supernatural, led to the deaths of innocent people in the Salem. In Boston, it took years for any change to come about, and tha...