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)...
