Side Trips from Boston Features

Side Trips from Boston Features

• Top Reasons to Go
  

  Early American History: From Plimoth Plantation to Salem, Deerfield, Sturbridge Village, and Hancock Shaker Village, you can visit Colonial reenactment... read more

• Literary Concord
  

  The first wholly American literary movement was born in Concord, the tiny town west of Boston that, quite coincidentally, also witnessed the... read more

• The First Witch Trial
  

  It was in Danvers, not Salem, that the first witch trial was held, originating with the family of Samuel Parris, a minister who moved to the... read more

• Thar She Blows
  

  Ships depart regularly for whale-watching excursions from April or May through October, from coastal towns all along the bay. Humpbacks, finbacks... read more