We drove across the Charles River on Thursday to see Cambridge: Harvard, MIT, and environs. We liked the inscription on this old academic building at Harvard--built, no doubt, when Harvard thought it could provide an answer to the question.
The Longfellow House in Cambridge.
Friday was art museum day: we divided our time between the Boston Museum of Fine Arts
and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum.
At the MFA we saw an amazing special exhibit of an ancient Egyptian tomb.
The MFA collection includes these beautiful paintings by the 17th century Dutch artist Pieter Claesz:
In preparation for the symposium in Florence on the Romantics and Dante we searched for images of Dante, and found this sculpture of Dante and Virgil:
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Well, we know what I am. I'm riveted by the story of the 4,000 year old Tomb 10A and positively *calcifying* in my jealousy. hahaha
Calcifying?? An odd mental image. We are merely laying the groundwork for your future visit to Boston!
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