EcoRover Goes to Boston

Boston is a great city. For daughter Emily's last conference swim meet, our friends Andy, Sarah, and Emily Wilson came down from New Hampshire to spend several days with us. True friends, willing to put in all that bleacher time at a swim meet!

Between times, though (while Emily Munday prepared for finals), we got out & hit the pavement. Mrs Rover & I spent some delightful hours at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts. I like the welcoming statue, "Appeal to the Great Spirit" by Cyrus E. Dallin:

We were lucky to hit a special exhibit of work by Albrecht Duerer, an early modern artist I teach to give students a glimpse into European technology & society c. 1500. Here's a print titled "The Prodigal Son amid the Swine" (I've often wondered about Duerer's use of swine in this Old Testament image, given Judaic proscriptions about pork as unclean meat):

And here's Duerer's "Saint Eustace," who converted to Christianity upon seeing a stag with a crucifix between its antlers:

Sarah guided us along Newbury Street, where architecture old and new blend together:

Shops display interesting art (chained so it can't fly away):

And history lives at the firehouse with Engine 33 and Ladder 15:

Ah, Boston. There's nothing like a late evening over sumptuous plates of oysters at The Barking Crab, followed by a ride back to the hotel--where we were the oldest people on a "T" trolley car packed with college kids:

And here we are, the happy walkers, bundled up against Boston's February chill (left to right: EcoRover, Mrs Rover, Emily Wilson, Andy Wilson, and Sarah Wilson):