Clinton/Boston/Cambridge/Concord/Salem oh my
I had an absolutely marvelous weekend with the RSC in Massachusetts!
Thursday evening I took the 6 o'clock bus to South Station, where I was met by Waddo (Emma) and Stevo (Emily). The Red Shoe Cult was reunited in full for the first time since Christmas 2006. We set off, only needing to turn back once when I realized that in all the excitement I had forgotten my suitcase from under the bus. We had a quick snack with Stevo, and then Waddo and I went back to her cute apartment in Clinton.
Friday Waddo and I took the T to Harvard Square, and explored a bit of Harvard and Cambridge. We went to three bookstores in Cambridge: The Harvard Book Store, Curious George & Friends, and The Coop.
Harvard Book Store was my favorite. They had new books upstairs and used books downstairs. I loved the downstairs decor, they covered most available walls with bookmarks and book related cartoons, quotes, and clippings. I also loved Curious George and Friends, which was a wonderful children's book store. The Coop was great as well, but was secretly a Barnes and Noble. I love Barnes and Noble though, and The Coop has an incredible selection, as my neighbor M-----l pointed out already.
Next we headed into Boston, where, if I were to speculate, I would guess the wind was gusting at about 100 miles per hour.
We went to my favorite bagel place, Bruegger's Bagels, for lunch. Man, I miss Bruegger's. There was one across the street from The State News, and it's tied with Cancun Mexican Grill as the East Lansing establishment I miss most.
We walked around Boston all day, some of the highlights were Quincy Market and the Boston Public Library. We also went to two bookstores, Trident Booksellers & Cafe and Brattle Book Shop. Both were great, but I need to spend much more time in Brattle Book Shop. We didn't get there until 30 minutes before they closed, and their sidewalk carts were inside in the aisles so it was really hard to browse.
Saturday was fantastic. We drove around all day and visited Walden Pond, Concord, Sleepy Hallow Cemetery, and Salem. In Concord we went to two more fabulous bookstores, The Concord Bookshop and Books With a Past.
I also loved going to Sleepy Hallow Cemetery, where we visited Author's Ridge: the graves of Hawthorne, Emerson, Alcott, and Thoreau.
If, after waiting for this ungodly amount of photos to load, you have the desire to see more photos from my trip, they can be viewed on my flickr page.
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The Brattle Book Shop was the one I was trying to think of when I was writing on M-------l's site the other day. I loved that bookstore. Trinity was great as well.
I am green with jealousy right now. I'm so glad you had such a fun time there!
Your trip looks like a lot of fun. I must've walked right by The Harvard Book Store. I wish I'd seen it as I had trouble finding any good used shops in the area. Oh well, maybe next time.
You showed us all the bookstores you visited, but you didn't say what you purchased. I hope that information will be forthcoming. I'm looking forward to a huge stack of titles.
(Also, thanks for the postcard from a couple weeks back. It's on my fridge...where it will stay until someone else sends me one. It could be awhile.)
We hang out at Walden Pond sometimes in the summer and I stole a rock from the pile that marks where is house was to give to Ben one year.
I went to Salem at Halloween a couple years ago and it was really cool. Until we wandered away from the touristy places and into the real witch stores. Then I was a little creeped out.
The guide you and your friends made sounds very fun! I loved Concord, it was such a cute town.
I can't wait to go back!
The books purchases will definitely be posted in the near future. Unfortunately, it's not that big of a stack. I'm trying to be more frugal because of the horrid economy. I got a lot of nice bookmarks though, and a tote bag. I will post photos of those as well.
We didn't walk around the pond, but I'd love to do it next time.