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Oliver Wendell Holmes once described the Boston State House as "the hub of the solar system." Serenely situated on Beacon Hill, this masterpiece of Charles Bulfinch's design is as good a place to start as any. From the Hill streets stretch down to all parts of the city...
...brick houses of Beacon Hill remain to remind us of the glory that once was Boston's. Louisburg Square, with its 22 houses set around a little garden in the center, best reflects the serenity, the calm, assured optimism, the decorous propriety of the Brahmins of yore. The pattern of these houses is English; No. 20 Louisburg Square was used for the filming of Thackeray's Vanity Fair...
Descending the Hill by way of Beacon Street, we pass the State House and the great houses fronting on the Common, their windows shining purple in the sun. Originally colorless, the constant glare of the sun permanently transformed their color over the course of years. In the Public Garden, which faces Beacon St. near the foot of the Hill, you can take a ride in a Swan Boat. Crossing the road, you enter historic Boston Common, where cows once grazed and where now Irishmen, Italians, Jehovah's Witnesses, and various others debate religion. On weekends the Common resembles nothing...
Less expensive are The Seven(a haven for crew cuts and madras skirts at the base of Beacon Hill); the Rathskeller. (beer, tumult, and cameraderie on Commonwealth Avenue); the go-it-alone joints along Washington St., notably the Palace (where you can bring a date during the week and emerge unscathed), the Novelty Bar, and the Golden Nugget...
...great fun-in a traditional sort of way. It reminded everybody of the time that Teddy Kennedy exuberantly dived into the pool fully clad, of how buoy-shaped Pierre Salinger was seen bobbing, fully clothed, in the pool with his cigar poking up and sputtering like a waning beacon...