They are a familiar sight around Boston’s historic attractions: tour guides clad in tricorner hats and other Colonial-era garb, regaling visitors with tales of how a people broke free from an ...
Most of the time, Emma Wiegand loves her job. As one of the three dozen tour guides who steer tourists around Boston’s historic Freedom Trail in Colonial Era outfits, she sees herself as an ambassador ...
On a recent Saturday, two Freedom Trail Foundation guides, dressed in androgynous 18th-century garb, recounted the story of Jemima Wilkinson. She was a Rhode Island–born preacher who, after a grave ...
A painted section of the historic Boston Freedom Trail in Downtown Crossing (Shown in photo), seen in 2014. It’s summertime, which calls to mind the perennial question for parents: where can we take ...
On a chilly October evening, a tour group gathered at Boston Common against the backdrop of a fast-setting sun. Many were tourists, eager to explore Boston’s revolutionary past. But on this night, ...
Advisory: This project contains descriptions of violence and dehumanizing language to reflect the horrors that Black people and Native Americans were routinely subjected to during the era of American ...
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