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With more history and culture per square foot than anyplace else in America, Massachusetts is a must-see!:

• Walk Boston's Freedom Trail - see Old Ironsides, the oldest commissioned US naval ship, and visit the graves of the patriots who won independence for America
• Take in a ballgame at historic Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox since 1912, where Babe Ruth and Ted Williams played
• In Cambridge, soak up the historic and cultural ambience of Harvard Square, and tour the campus and wonderful museums of Harvard University, America's oldest, founded in 1636
• Tour Salem's Peabody Essex Museum and learn about the history of New England's maritime trade
• Visit Plimoth Plantation in present-day Plymouth and spend a day immersed in Massachusetts as known to Pilgrim settlers and Native Americans in 1627
• On Cape Cod, watch hundreds of species of waterfowl, shorebirds and other wildlife at the Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge in Chatham, the Cape Cod National Seashore in Eastham or the Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary in Wellfleet
• Learn the history of New England whaling at the Nantucket Whaling Museum
• Go back in time 200 years at Historic Deerfield or Hancock Shaker Village
• Enjoy world-class contemporary art exhibits and performances at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Arts in North Adams
• Experience the Boston Symphony Orchestra in an idyllic rural setting at Tanglewood, their summer home in Lenox in the Berkshires

Date Created: May 3, 2014

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