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Boston School Tours
Depart for Salem & Marble head
Tour the House of the Seven Gables, made famous by Nathaniel Hawthorne in his novel of the same name.
Salem Witch Museum – This museum depicts the witch trails of 1692.
Visit Plymouth Harbor and Plymouth Rock.
Board the Mayflower II, a full size replica of the original ship. An exhibition on the dock relates the story of their 66-day transatlantic voyage. On board the vessel artisans demonstrate wooden shipbuilding as they ready the shop for its next voyage at the turn of the 21st century.
Plymouth Plantation Field Trip
Tour Plymouth Plantation Village and Wampanoag Indian Campsite (local tribe – signed peace that lasted for 50 years) In the living-history museum of 17th century Plymouth, costumed interpreters portray residents of the colony. Program guides teach about the American Indian culture by showing how the natives cooked and made canoes and woven goods.
Hancock Observatory Class Trip
Visit the Hancock Observatory – at 740 feet it is said to be the highest vantage point in New England The view encompasses the city and suburbs and extends as far as the mountains of south New Hampshire.
Tour Boston’s Back Bay and Walking tour Freedom Trail.
Guided walking tour of Boston’s Historic Freedom Trail. Visited the Old North Church, built in 1723 and is the oldest church building in Boston. The first peal (bells) on this continent, some of the oldest in the world, sounded from the church in 1744. On the evening of April 18, 17765, a sexton displayed two lanterns in the steeple to signal the departure of the British
From Boston.
Lunch – Quincy Market – 60 different places from which to choose.
Tour the U.S.S. Constitution (“Old Ironsides”). Climb 294 stairs to the Top of the Bunker Hill Monument. Paul Revere House, Granary Burying Ground, interred on the grounds are three signers of the Declaration of Independence – John Hancock, Samuel Adams and Robert Treat Paine, as well as Paul Revere, Peter Faneuil, Boston Massacre victims and Benjamin Franklin’s parents.
New York Field Trips
Visit to The Empire State building
Manhattan School Tour
This day you will visit downtown – Battery Park – board ferry to Statue to Liberty, America’s symbol of freedom, located in Upper New York Bay since 1886.
Ellis Island which had the largest immigration from 1892 to 1924
Visit to the financial district – see Wall Street and the United Nations Building
Time permitting visit Chinatown and Little Italy –
Take in a Broadway Show
Museum of your choice
Natural History Museum
MOMA, Whitney, Guggenheim, etc
visit Time Square
St .Patrick’s Cathedral, Trump Towers, etc
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