Boston Rambles

Boston Rambles

A Rambler Walks and Talks About the Hub of the Universe

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Leicester, Massachusetts, #2.

Savoring the Fruits of Leicester Part Two- A Walk Up Strawberry Hill Upper Boston Post Road #21 (UBPR #21). “Set out for Springfield with Mr. Davenport….eat Roast Turkey near Strawberry-Hill, I eat mine there at Sarah Stebbings’s.” Samuel Sewall, Diary, Tuesday August 28, 1716. “Geography has its excitements.” Robert Byron, The Road to Oxiana, 1937…. (read more)

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Leicester, Massachusetts, #1.

Savoring the Fruits of Leicester Part One– A Walk Through Cherry Valley Upper Boston Post Road #20 (UBPR #20). “The township is principally composed of lofty hills, with deep vallies between them. The hills are generally considered as the highest ground between Connecticut River, and the Shore.” Timothy Dwight, Travels in New England and New… (read more)

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