May 27 - Beaming


Service at Harvard Memorial Church,


in preparation for the Divinity School graduation tomorrow,


with Chris serving as one of the


two Class Marshalls --



and


a


lovely


experience


throughout. 

***


The day starts langorously in Haverhill,


southwest on 495,


south on


93,


through


the


labyrinthine streets of Boston,


once around the Common


(espying the State House and


Augustus Saint-Gaudens's Robert Gould Shaw Memorial --


the inspiration for Charles Ives's Three Places in New England: I)


to


take


in


the first four spots on the Freedom Trail,


focussing


on


the


Granary Burying Ground, where lain to rest are the five fallen of the Boston Massacre (including Crispus Attucks), as well as Samuel Adams,


Benjamin


Franklin's


parents,


Paul


Revere,


Peter Fanueil,


John Hancock,


and countless others


(indeed, many more than the often-winged-skull-decorated headstones, etc., would suggest). 


Backtracking


to 


coffee,



we


eventually


make


a


way


over the Charles River to



Somerville for our rendezvous with


Bette, George, and Sorrel Ann --


proceeding via Uber to Harvard Yard, on another humid afternoon, high 87 / 90, Boston-Cambridge / Haverhill... 82 back home, on the 86th day of summer (23rd at 80-or-more)...