| | | | September on the Freedom Trail®
This September explore the dark side of Boston's Freedom Trail! The Foundation's new, annual Freedom Trail Lantern Tours will return this year, offering visitors and residents the opportunity to experience the dark history and mystery of the Freedom Trail by lantern-light! Fatal sword duels, the grave of a ruthless pirate, tales of scandalous murders, and the punishment and hanging of convicted witches: all real, and all explored on the Freedom Trail Lantern Tour. Join a Freedom Trail® Player, darkly garbed in 18th-century costume with a lantern, and bring true accounts of appalling crimes, spies and assassins, cold-blooded killings, and demonic possession to life on these 90-minute walking tours. Lantern Tours will be offered on Thursdays, September 22 through October 27 and Saturdays, October 8 through October 29, at
7:00 p.m. from the ArtsBoston Bostix Booth at Faneuil Hall. Purchase tickets online for the Freedom Trail Lantern Tours! Tickets may be purchased at the ArtsBoston Booth at Faneuil Hall, Boston Common Visitor Information Center, and Cheers Retail Gift Shop at Faneuil Hall Marketplace. In addition to the Lantern Tours, Freedom Trail Foundation Walk Into History Tours will continue to step off daily. All tours are offered as group tours by reservation. For a full schedule of tours, as well as information on exciting events and activities at Freedom Trail historic sites, please visit the Foundation's calendar. | | Discover King's Chapel
Experience rich history and music at King's Chapel this fall! King's Chapel historic site is open to visitors daily from 10:00 a.m. until
5:00 p.m., with guided tours of the crypt and belfry on the hour. Hear the 1816 Paul Revere bell toll at 4:30 p.m. on Wednesday, September 7 to commemorate Boston Charter Day. Interested in the church's darker side? Join King's Chapel for the return of HallowEvenings, annual after-hours Halloween Crypt Tours during the last week of October. Guests discover the mystery and intrigue of over 350 years of Boston burial history during this unique tour. King's Chapel's 2016-2017 Concert Series kicks off on Sunday, September 25 at 5:00 p.m. with "More and More Mozart." Additionally ,the music department hosts recitals every Tuesday afternoon at 12:15 p.m. For more information about upcoming tours and concerts, please visit the King's Chapel website. | | | Lowell Lecture Series
School is back in session and the learning continues on the Freedom Trail! Decades of archaeological work in and around Boston have revealed a complex history and occasionally surprising and unexpected finds. The Paul Revere Memorial Association, in cooperation with Old South Meeting House, will present a series of lectures exploring recent archaeological work in the North End, Downtown Boston, the inner neighborhoods, and on Boston Harbor Islands titled Unearthing Boston: A Bordello, "Home Rule" Pipes, A Shipwreck, and Native American Shell Middens. Funded by the Lowell Institute, the lectures are free of charge and will take place on Tuesday evenings, September 6 through September 27 at 6:30 p.m. at Old South Meeting House. | | | Benjamin Franklin Statue Returns
Located at the the site of the Boston Latin School (Old City Hall Plaza) on School Street, the Benjamin Franklin statue is back and looking better than ever on the Freedom Trail. Franklin, an alum of Boston Latin School, returned to his 160-year old perch on Wednesday, August 31 after a necessary three-month a restoration project completed by Daedalus of Watertown. Welcome Ben back to the neighborhood by visiting the site for a ribbon cutting ceremony on Thursday, September 8 at 12:00 noon. Check out these Boston Globe articles for further information on the statue's restoration and return. | | | | | | | | | |
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