Tour Descriptions

Complete Tour of Boston
Boston is comprised of many neighborhoods, each with its own architecture and atmosphere. You'll have an overview of the city when you see the major neighborhoods and the historic sites that make Boston such a fascinating place to visit. You'll see Beacon Hill, Boston's most prestigious address, and visit the Back Bay, an elegant section of Boston which, one hundred years ago, was built according to the plan of Paris' Bois de Bologne.

You'll pass by the Midtown Cultural District, Chinatown, and the South End, which boasts the largest Victorian neighborhood in the United States. Fenway Park is on your route, and the Fens section of Boston, which contains the Museum of Fine Arts, Symphony Hall, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum will also be seen.

Harvard University and the JFK Library
You will explore the world famous Harvard University area where the young JFK lived and studied. You will stroll through Harvard Yard, the original campus of the oldest university in the country. You will have time to browse in Harvard Square, with its shops, boutiques, and over 25 bookstores. Your tour will continue as you travel from Cambridge to the shoreline of Dorchester Bay, where you will visit the spectacular John F. Kennedy Library, designed by I.M. Pei. First you will see a short film about President Kennedy, and then you will walk the campaign trail, view the

famous Kennedy/Nixon debates, see the often humorous press conferences, and continue on through the highlights of his presidency. You can sit in on the strategy sessions during the Cuban Missile crisis, see the Kennedy oval office and the gifts the Kennedy's received during his presidency, as well as mementos from his personal life. For a short time, you will re-live the thousand days of "Camelot".

A Literary Tour of Concord

This tour highlights Concord's importance as the site where some of the most influential American literary figures of the 19th century lived, wrote and died. You will visit Walden Pond and see the restored replica of his cabin.. Your literary journey continues as you tour Orchard House, the home of Louisa May Alcott, and the house which became the setting for Little Women, the most widely published children's book in the world.

The costumes and clothing used by the Alcott girls when they gave their famous plays have been preserved, and some will be on display. Your next stop is The Concord Museum, which features rooms from every period of Concord's history, each room having authentic decor and artifacts from its period. This is a fascinating look into the world of "Little Women" and its author, as well as the other literary periods represented by Concord's famous local authors.

Demonstrations of daily tasks and conversations with costumed interpreter will allow you to understand early American life. Explore village homes, shops, businesses and the meetinghouse, wander the country roads that lead from the Village to the Freeman farm and along the way, the sights and sounds of 1830's New England will greet you each step of the way on your visit back in time.

Then drive down a quiet country road, where surrounded by rolling hills and meadows, the Salem Cross Inn recalls a time and place ordinarily beyond the reach of contemporary Americans. The inn is known for its extensive collection of American antiques and furnishings. The collections occupy richly paneled rooms in the ancestral home of a family whose forebear, Peregrine White, was born on the MAYFLOWER.

Built in 1705, the inn, with its borning room and stream of spring water flowing through the cellar, withstood countless Indian raids, the French and Indian Wars and the American Revolution. The innkeeper will give you a tour of the inn, and then you'll be treated to a hearty New England luncheon complete with rolls baked in the inn's original beehive oven. All of the meals served at the inn are comprised of ingredients produced on the inn's farm.

Marblehead and Old Salem: Myth and Mystery

Your tour will begin with a visit to scenic Marblehead where you will have an opportunity to view the scenic castle Rock. You will continue on to the next town ? Salem ? the home of "witch hysteria" in the 1600's. You will have a tour of either the Witch Museum, where through a multimedia presentation you will experience what it was like when "witch hysteria" was rampant in the 17th century or a tour of the Witch Dungeon where a theatrical reenactment of the witch trials is presented. In both places one learns the effects of this legacy of fear. Salem is also famous for its participation in the China Trade, and the sea captains of this era built stately mansions with the great profits they earned.

Many of these homes were built on Chestnut Street and you will visit this area which has been called "the most distinguished street in America". The Peabody Museum, the oldest continuously operating museum in the country, is also a stop on this tour. You will enjoy a private tour of the museum's artifacts and Oriental treasures, many of which were brought back to Salem during the China Trade, and some of which are unique examples of their type, found nowhere else in the world today. Your tour will also include luncheon.