The American Industrial Revolution began in Lowell, Massachusetts (settled in 1646).  By the 1820s, Lowell was the largest industrial complex in America.  Come with us to tour the old mills, see the canals built starting in 1792 – which were dug to get the products to market in Boston 26 miles away, see the old […]

This is a 6-7-hour tour and is available year-round.  Some attractions are closed during the winter months and the cranberry bogs are only in season from September to October. Stand by Plymouth Rock, where our forefathers landed in December, 1620 after what had to have been a long trip in deplorable conditions – they had […]

This is a 6-hour tour. Salem, settled in 1626, endured a witchcraft hysteria in 1692, resulting in the executions by hanging and “pressing to death” of 18 people and 3 dogs – more than 45 others, mostly elderly women, froze to death in unheated dungeons in this area while awaiting their “trial” before the hysteria […]

We begin this tour with pick up at 9 or 9:30AM (inquire about airport, train, or cruise ship pick up times), and take you through old Boston.  This tour includes many Freedom Trail sites, Cheers or Fenway Park, if you’re interested, the interior of Beacon Hill and the Back Bay.  We then cross the Charles […]

Visit with us, the Boston Harbor Oceanfront Sewage Treatment Facility – which isn’t nearly as yucky as it sounds – and learn what happens when you flush a toilet.  Afterwards, you can take a break and sip a Sam Adams Beer at a pub with seats facing the grave of Sam Adams himself – which […]

See sites related to the American Civil War, such as the bookstore where Harriet Beecher Stowes’ incendiary book “Uncle Tom’s Cabin” was published; sites where Lincoln, Frederick Douglas, Charles Sumner, Jeff Davis, and John Wilkes Booth stayed in Boston; visit the Navy Yard where the USS Merrimack was launched (re: Battle of the Monitor and […]