touring Boston
Aug. 7th, 2008 05:48 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
gilanaOpening weekend was fabulous, but I got sort of peopled out and have been something of a lazy hermit most of this week. After spending all of yesterday inside, today I finally made it out into the world again. When I stopped by the BPL to pick up some books, I noticed a sign for an exhibition called "All the World’s a Page: 400 Years of Shakespeare in Print" and went to check it out. I wandered around trying to find the right building and floor, up in a fabulous art-deco elevator, into an unmarked room filled with a dusty exhibit of the Dwiggins marionettes (oh cool, just read that he is credited with coining the term 'graphic designer' in 1922), and finally into the right room. It was a two-story room with a balcony filled with other old books, and showcases on the main level punctuating walls full of intriguing old leather bindings. The exhibit itself was small and not quite as interesting as I had hoped -- or else I just didn't have as much patience for reading the signs as was necessary -- but it was neat to see an edition of Much Ado from the 18th century and read the familiar lines.
After that I dashed off to the North End to try to make the 2pm behind-the-scenes tour of Old North Church, with my director![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cristoforou as my guide. There were only two other people on my tour, a forensic anthropologist from Washington State and her teenaged son. The tour included a walk through the crypts below the church, which she particularly enjoyed, and a visit to the bell-ringing chamber in the steeple, where a teenage Paul Revere worked as a member of the bell ringer's Guild. Apparently the MIT guild of Bellringers does the ringing there now. Their web page says "If you would like to join, try it out, or just visit and listen, please email us at bellringers@mit.edu!" and I'm definitely going to take them up on that. Anyway, I highly recommend the tour, it had a lot more detail than just going to visit the church. Well worth it even for us locals.
And in about an hour I get to make my way over to T@F again to start our closing weekend! Should be a good one. I'm especially looking forward to tomorrow night, when Tom Champion, the Voice of Somerville, is our guest announcer! Wonder if he'll come out with us for Kilt & Corset night?
After that I dashed off to the North End to try to make the 2pm behind-the-scenes tour of Old North Church, with my director
cristoforou as my guide. There were only two other people on my tour, a forensic anthropologist from Washington State and her teenaged son. The tour included a walk through the crypts below the church, which she particularly enjoyed, and a visit to the bell-ringing chamber in the steeple, where a teenage Paul Revere worked as a member of the bell ringer's Guild. Apparently the MIT guild of Bellringers does the ringing there now. Their web page says "If you would like to join, try it out, or just visit and listen, please email us at bellringers@mit.edu!" and I'm definitely going to take them up on that. Anyway, I highly recommend the tour, it had a lot more detail than just going to visit the church. Well worth it even for us locals.And in about an hour I get to make my way over to T@F again to start our closing weekend! Should be a good one. I'm especially looking forward to tomorrow night, when Tom Champion, the Voice of Somerville, is our guest announcer! Wonder if he'll come out with us for Kilt & Corset night?
