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Massachusetts
“Must-See” ここは絶対に見るべき!! マサチューセッツ州の
簡単な紹介
Massachusetts Map+
マサチューセッツ州の地図等
Original 13 Colonies:
Delaware, Pennsylvania, New Jersey,
Georgia, Connecticut, Massachusetts, Maryland, South Carolina, New
Hampshire, Virginia, New York, North Carolina, and Rhode Island
New England:
Maine, New Hampshire, Vermont, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, and Connecticut.
Cape Cod National Seashore
Dr. Seuss National
Memorial Sculpture Garden, Springfield
Emily Dickinson Museum, Amherst
Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art,
Amherst ---
Eric Carle is famous for his book,
“The Very Hungry Caterpillar”
Martha’s Vineyard Note
that fortunes of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket islands were made through 19th century whaling.
The fictional 19th century Nantucket
whaleship appears in Herman Melville's novel "Moby Dick" (1851).
New Bedford; for
example,
New Bedford Whaling Museum
and
The Seamen’s Bethel.
New Bedford sits among popular tourist sites such as Cape Cod, Plymouth, and
Newport (Rhode Island)**. Click here
English
|
Japanese,
for more info on New Bedford.
Mt. Greylock State Reservation
Mt. Washington:
Mt. Washington State Forest |
Bash Bish Falls State Park
Norman Rockwell Museum,
Stockbridge
Old Sturbridge Village --- New England
village (early 1800’s)
Parker River National Wildlife Refuge
Plimoth Plantation (Plymouth) --- Plimoth
village (1627- ), reproduction of the Mayflower is located near Plymouth Rock
Salem Witch Trials, 1692, Salem --- 20 people were executed at Salem Village
for witchcraft
Guide to Salem |
Salem Witch Museum
Tanglewood is the
summer home for the Boston Symphony Orchestra:
Tanglewood Music Festival and Tanglewood Jazz
Festival
Boston ボストン市
Boston Children’s Museum
Boston Marathon (World’s Oldest Annual
marathon)
Boston’s Public Garden
(first public botanical garden in the U.S.): Annual
Duckling Day Parade, Statue of Mrs. Mallard and Her Eight Little
Ducklings – “Make Way for Ducklings” by Robert McCloskey |
Swan Boats --- “The Trumpet of the Swan” by E.B. White
Boston Symphony Orchestra | Boston Pops
John Williams
Fenway Park ---
Home for the Boston Red Sox. Greatest players
such as Cy Young, Bebe Ruth, and Ted Williams played here.
Freedom Trail --- Boston Common, Paul
Revere’s home, King’s Chapel, Faneuil Hall, Bunker Hill
Monument, and more.
John F. Kennedy
Presidential Library and Museum
4th of July in Boston
Museum of Fine Arts
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Cheers:
Sitcom TV series,1982 to 1993
Boston Accent
Boston Terrier
Professional Sports Teams:
Boston Red Sox,
New
England Patriots (Foxbourough, Ma: Greater Boston area),
Boston Celtics, Boston Bruins, etc.
Boston Globe |
Boston Herald
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Massachusetts is known for
its
cranberries,
its Boston baked beans, etc1).
Massachusetts is famous for its colleges*:
Harvard University (America’s oldest
college, Cambridge, 1636),
Mount Holyoke College (one of oldest women’s
colleges in the U.S., South Hadley, 1837, a member of the Seven Sisters),
MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology,
Cambridge, 1861), etc. * We often hear
that Boston is the best
college town in the U.S.
Industries: High-tech Industry, Tourism
Brief
History
Pilgrims on the Mayflower land on Plymouth Rock, Plymouth (1620) | Boston is
founded by English Puritans (1630) | First Thanksgiving |
Boston Massacre (1770) |
Boston Tea Party (1773) | The Revolutionary War begins at Lexington
and Concord (1775) |
Paul Revere | Minutemen | Battle of Bunker Hill (1775) | Joins Union (1788) | Basketball is invented in Springfield
(1891) |
Volleyball is invented in
Holyoke
(1895) |
Boston builds the first
subway system in the U.S.
(1897) |
Baseball's First World Series
(1903) More
History of Massachusetts
Famous Natives
Father and Son U.S. presidents, John Adams and John Quincy Adams, Samuel Adams,
Aerosmith, Harvey Ball (Smiley :-) ), Clara Barton (American Red
Cross), Leonard Bernstein, George H. W. Bush, John
Chapman (Johnny Appleseed), Emily Dickinson, Bette Davis,
W.E.B. Du Bois,
Ralph Waldo Emerson,
Benjamin Franklin, Theodore
Geisel (Dr. Seuss),
John Hancock, Winslow Homer,
John F. Kennedy, Edwin H. Land (Polaroid), Paul
Revere, Norman Rockwell (Painter & Illustrator), Henry David Thoreau (Naturalist), Barbara Walters, James McNeill Whistler,
Eli Whitney (Cotton Gin), and more For more info on
Famous Natives, click
here.
Boston Attractions |
Top 10 Must-See Sights in Boston |
Top 10 Museums in Boston
マサチューセッツ州の旅行ガイド
The Commonwealth
of Massachusetts |
City of Boston
Largest Cities in Massachusetts
More info on Massachusetts
More Events
for example, check out
this site
References
1)
Inge N. Dobelis (Project Editor) et al: America: Land of Beauty and Splendor (New
York, USA: The Reader's Digest Association, 1992)
2)
Alma E. Guinness (Project Editor) et al: America A to Z (New York,
USA: The Reader's Digest Association, 1997)
3)
Laura Sutherland with Family Travel Forum: “Amazing Places to Take Your
Kids” (Illinois, USA: Publications International, Ltd., 2008)
4)
“Our National Parks - Celebrating
America’s
Nature Splendor”,
Life 9 (2009) No. 7 August 21
5)
History of
States in the U.S.
6)
World Atlas
7)
About the US
8)
Yahoo Travel
9)
Wikipedia
10)
FactMonster
11)
50 States
12)
Infoplease
13)
Top 10 Museums in the United States
** Jim
Ragsdale:”Once, there were whalers {In New Bedford, Mass., the ghosts of Moby
Dick and the men who pursued monsters like him live on.}” Travel Section,
St. Paul Pioneer Press,
October 24, 2010.
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