We decided to take a walk down Commonwealth Avenue. A wonderful stretch of greenery and street art. Of course it's Boston so there's great architecture always accompanied by the drone and smell of cars.
A city in transition.
My favourite set of sculptures was the Boston's Womens' Memorial. (I know you will be surprised by this ha! ha!).
The sculptures depict three womens, Judy Stone, Phillis Wheatley and Abigail Adams. Judy Stone, an abolitionist and suffragist, was among the first women to graduate from college in Massachusetts. Wheatley, a colonial slave sold from a ship in Boston, published the nation’s first book by an African writer. And Adams, the famous First Lady, who many thought would have made a great president, was known for her political nouse and progressive views on women.
American street art and memorials are so evocative. I hated the 911 memorial but Roger loved it ... but that is art I guess. I love this memorial to the nine firefighters who were killed in 1972, when a section of the Hotel Vendome collapsed.
In Boston there is a real feel of preserving the old and accepting the new. So there are huge towers that reflect the shining domes and white steepled churches.
A city in transition.
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