The Herbold Family: A walk on the Freedom Trail and dinner at the North End

On the Freedom Trail......

Old North church

Today we headed out to the Freedom trail since a bit of it was on our way to our dinner restaurant on the North End. The weather was absolutely perfect today. We had been anticipating very warm temperatures based on the rest of the summer, but I don't think it even got to 80 degrees today.

It is kind of interesting following the freedom trail, as it is marked with bricks two wide in the sidewalk. There is so much brick in the walkways out here that sometimes we almost missed a turn in the trail. We found our way to the Old North Church which was the church in which the lanterns were hung to warn the Patriots across the harbor of the British Troops heading for Lexington and Concord. This was a backup plan in case Paul Revere was captured during his famous ride through the countryside.

In the picture above, Maddie is sitting in a church box pew. Families would rent them and then could decorate them however they wanted. Pews closest to the pulpit were most desirable and showed status

St Francis of Assisi statue. Maddie likes to pose with them and we loved the bird on his shoulder. This was in a garden behind the church.

Dinner at Al Dente restaurant. Very delicious... I had the pasta carbonara and Steve had the linguini with clams.Then of course we stopped for ice cream.

The New England Holocaust memorial. Very striking to see. There are 6 tall towers, one for each Nazi camp, that each contain one million serial numbers, representing the people killed in these camps.

This steam rising from the base inside each tower represents smoke fromthe smoldering embers in the camps. Each tower wall also contains inscriptions of statements made by survivors of the camps, usually reflecting how the experience affected their lives.