Once Upon A Time… Upper Boston Post Road #10 (UPBR #10) One Autumn night, in Sudbury town,Across the meadows bare and brown,The windows of the wayside innGleamed red with fire-light through the leavesOf woodbine, hanging from the eavesTheir crimson curtains rent and thin. Tales of a Wayside Inn by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow ***** Once upon… (read more)
Lost Roads. Upper Boston Post Road #8 (UBPR#8) Alternate Route Entry #3. We then traveled through a very fine country, missed our way and went to Southborough; we were obliged to turn back a mile to get the right road. Ensign Henry DeBerniere in his report to General Thomas Gage, Saturday, February 25, 1775. Sometimes… (read more)
Everybody Comes To Buck’s. Upper Boston Post Road #7 (UPBR#7) Alternate Route Entry #2. “We then asked him for the inns that were on the road between the house and Worcester, he recommended us two, one about nine miles from his house, a Mr. Buckminster’s….” Ensign Henry DeBerniere, in his report to General Gage, February… (read more)
Framingham Diversion. Upper Boston Post Road #6 (UPBR #6) Alternate Route Entry #1. “About 10 Mr. Gerry called me, and we rode to Framingham, where we dined. Coll. Buckminster after Dinner shewed us, the Train of Artillery brought down from Ticonderoga, by Coll. Knox.” Diary of John Adams, Thursday, January 25, 1776 Immediately upon entering… (read more)
Waylaid in Wayland. Upper Boston Post Road #5 (UBPR #5). “We were resolved to go the Sudbury road, (which was the main road that led to Worcester ) and go as far as the the thirty-seven mile-stone, where we had left the main road and taken the Framingham road.” Ensign Henry DeBerniere, from his report… (read more)
Mile 0. The Origin Of The Post Road. Walking The Post Road Entry #2 (WTPR #2). “For we must consider that we shall be as a city upon a hill, the eyes of all people upon us.” John Winthrop, A Model of Christian Charity *** This is the second entry from my previous project, Walking… (read more)
Milestone 5. The Art of Walking. Walking The Post Road Entry #1 (WTPR #1) “I have met but one or two persons in the course of my life who understood the art of walking…” Henry David Thoreau, Walking ***** This is the very first of the entries from my previous project, Walking the Post Road,… (read more)
Steeple Chase. Walking The Post Road Entry #10 (WTPR #10). “In answer to the petition it was clearly voted…that the petitioners together with all such as dwell on the south side of the afores’d line who are willing to joyne with them, and do embody so as to maintain an able learned Orthodox minister amongst… (read more)
“But I have promises to keep, And miles to go before I sleep, And miles to go before I sleep.” Robert Frost from “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening” This is another of the entries from my previous project, Walking the Post Road, which I have transferred over to this project for two reasons…. (read more)
This is another of the entries from my previous project, Walking the Post Road, which I have transferred over to this project for two reasons. The first reason is that it is relevant to this project in that it is a ‘ramble’ about Boston. The second reason is that the previous project was done on… (read more)
