This the house where Mr. Gibbons grew up. See the window at the top, this is where Frank, John, and Mr. G slept when they were teenagers........ It was an oven in summer, and freezing in winter...but it was fun up there!
Saturday, June 22, 2013
Visiting Harvard University and Colonial Revolutionary Sites
~Visited Harvard Square and Harvard University today. Along the way I stopped at numerous historical sites dating back to the time of The 13 Colonies and the American Revolution. I must say, the Old Burying Ground was the coolest. I stood on the spot that Paul Revere turned his duties over to William Dawes. I walked through Harvard Yard, where they leave furniture all over the grass for people to sue.... and it DOES NOT GET STOLEN.......how cool is that?
~I visited the memorial erected by the city of Cambridge to honor the victims of the Great Famine in Ireland in the 1840's......
~I rode the subway....always cool to do that...and ran into a family from Jacksonville, their daughter goes to Fishweir Elementary School...they were visiting Harvard.
~I also visited the memorial to Abraham Lincoln and Ulysses Grant in Cambridge...two of the greatest Americans ever...they held the United States together..... if not for them, Florida would not be part of the US, and slavery would have gone on for many more years.......
~It was a pretty good day, and I learned a few things too..... and ran into a classmate from fifth grade on the subway!
Entrance to Cambridge Common honoring George Washington, this is where he took command of the Continental Army
Memorial to the scores of people who fled Ireland for America
The Cambridge Lincoln Memorial
Memorial to William Dawes
Entrance to Harvard Yard
Statue of John Harvard
Harvard Train Station
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Home in New England
All settled in here in Massachusetts. Spent the day at Gillette Stadium & Patriot Place, home of the 3 time Super Bowl Champions, New England Patriots!
Monday, June 17, 2013
Go Bruins!
This is for Homsky! Go Bruins! I would cheer for San Jose....but they are out of the playoffs! One game each Johnathan!
The Wedding of Sheila Gibbons
~Greetings from Massachusetts! My niece Sheila got married yesterday! The coolest part of the wedding was that Mr. Gibbons married Sheila and Justin!
~A few nights here, the temperature has actually gotten down to the high forties!
~I plan on running in a road race on July 3rd in WIlmington, Mass.
~I will keep you posted on my adventures!
Reviewing the vows before the wedding
The Man with the rings
My sister Anne was the mother of the bride
Wednesday, June 5, 2013
Scenes from Wild Adventures!
Daniel before he started crying
don't cry Andre
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