Michele

I was in heaven yesterday, also known as the Radcliffe Quad (Harvard Radcliffe Institute in Cambridge)

Experiencing Boston through a child’s eyes Things I learned by giving walking tours to children

Keys to giving walking tours to children: end on time; ask questions to activate imagination; touch buildings; enjoy the funny things they say. #womanwalking #lifeofatourguide

I’m leading this tour tomorrow, come join me!

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The @bostonbyfoot.bsky.social guide who developed the tour Slavery and Abolition in Massachusetts will lead the tour tomorrow, July 26, which starts at 10:30 at 53 State Street (corner of State & Congress) and ends at noon at this memorial.

The always-inspiring Shaw-54th Regiment Memorial still had flowers on it from the anniversary of the July 18, 1863 battle at Fort Wagner, SC, when I visited Sunday. Seeing the mini-bio of St. Gaudens, the sculptor, made me wonder what other such works have this kind of information. Few, I think!

Staycation! The Great Recession and walking tours in Boston

Reflecting on my first years as a walking tour guide, as the country struggled with the effects of the Great Recession.
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Arrived downtown early for my tour. The park at One Post Office Square and this bench are nearly irresistible, but duty calls! It’s so gorgeous out! #lovelyday #lifeofatourguide #Boston

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My next few tours for Boston By Foot tell two sides of the story of the American Revolution. On July 19 or July 27, join me for Boston’s Loyalists. On July 26, walk in the footsteps of patriots on the Road to Revolution. Register:

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Millions of Americans know the pain and hardship of getting a cancer diagnosis. That’s a misfortune, a terrible misfortune.

Voting for a tax scheme designed to rip health care from millions of Americans struggling to make ends meet? That’s not a misfortune, that’s an injustice.

Excited to be in London this week for INTERFLAM 2025, a fire protection engineering conference at the Royal Holloway College of the University of London. The campus boasts the 1880s Founders Building and many women’s suffrage acknowledgments. We enjoyed cask ale at the Red Lion in nearby Egham.

Followed this adorable buggy across the Charles in Needham-Newton earlier this afternoon.

Spent Sunday morning at Newport Flower Show at the Rosecliff mansion. Delightful! #NewEngland #summahvibes #Newport

How exciting! I visited the Gilbert Stuart birthplace in Rhode Island back in September...so fascinating.

Sounds amazing!

Yes, better than 30 minutes late!

Correction (to myself): my tour starts at 11:30 am on Saturday.

Sorry to hear. Wishing you both strength.

Have you ever heard of the Fragment Society? I learned about it when studying to give a @bostonbyfoot.bsky.social tour, Working Women: Boston Women Find Their Voice. You can join me Saturday, June 7 at 11 am to learn about it, too! Register ahead: bostonbyfoot.org/tours/boston...

What a difference a docent can make! On an art history tour in Barcelona, we visited the Joan Miró Foundation and our guide opened up a world for us. The building is by Josep Luis Sert, and the museum envisioned as a place for the people of Barcelona. #arthistory #Barcelona #docent

An art-oriented visit to Catalonia would be incomplete without a Dalí day. We travelled northeast to his hometown of Figueres to view his theater-museum and on to his hideaway in Cadaqués along the sea. #arthistory #catalonia #spain

Delta outbound via JFK to BCN, JetBlue direct on return from MAD. May-June is likely the most expensive time to go due to popularity. I have been to Barcelona in late February- weather is not bad and travel prices are much lower. Level is perfectly fine, too.

More Gaudí from my recent trip to Spain: Casa Vicens. Once a summer home in a sleepy part of Barcelona, it is now hemmed in with dense development. Its beauty has been preserved carefully.

If someone has heard of Barcelona architecture, they have heard of Gaudí. His Parc Güell and Sagrada Familia are great examples of his singular style.

In one interior atrium of the Hotel Espana, the walls are covered in sgraffito (carved plaster) murals. The east and west walls have female figures with Bon Dia in the east and Bon Nit in the west, wishing us good morning and good night in Catalan.

I’m back home from a wonderful 10-day art history tour in Barcelona and Madrid. Our Barcelona hotel was a work of Art Nouveau splendor. Meandering through the nearby Gothic Quarter revealed treasures including a well-preserved colonnade from a Roman temple. #art #history #spain #travel

This tour is a perfect collision of my worlds: fire safety and Boston history. I am planning to deliver the tour later this year (August-November). Anyone up to walk through time with me? #walking #Boston #history

I went on the excellent @bostonbyfoot.bsky.social walking tour Boston Reborn: After the Great Fire of 1872 earlier this week. Volunteer guide Harry Friedman researched and wrote this fascinating tour. Here he is showing us the (replaced) fire box that sent the alarm; rebuilt and saved structures.

Can’t wait to see you!