Better late than never! Yes, these pictures in Boston were taken 5 months ago while taking a trip to the state house. We found a plaque to William Billings who was Americas' first composer and hymn writer who lived during the War for Independence. He wrote one of the most famous colonial marching tunes of all times...Chester: "Let tyrant shake their iron rods...New England's God forever Reigns." I have played that song many time while marching down New England roads on the 4th of July in costume. We even played it as a family at Bunker Hill this summer while attending the Reformation 500 Celebration.
You need to blow up this plaque. This is where John Hancock's house stood. There was another plaque nearby that said that he owned this field where he grazed his cows. Now it's a state house. I would like to have seen John Hancock's cows.
My lovely wife and I outside of the Mass. State House. There are some wonderful paintings in here like one of John Winthrop.
Me family on the marble stairs in the State House.
A statue of my favorite person in history...George Washington riding his horse on Boston Gardens. He might have looked like this when he first rode to Cambridge when he first took command of the continental army. I just learned that their is a life size statue of him in London...go figure! "The bronze statue (in London) is a replica of Jean Antoine Houdon's marble statue in Richmond, Virginia, and was given to the Nation in 1921 by the 'Commonwealth of Virginia'."
Their hero too...
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