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We’ve changed a lot since the convention was last here in 1992—both the physical environment and the people who live and work here. Our city is a more diverse city than ever before. More than 50 percent of Boston’s residents are people of color; one in three is under the age of 34. Our economy is strong and diverse with several years of unprecedented real estate development, particularly in the health care, educational, cultural, and biotech arenas.
We have shaped a delicious tour program to give you the fullest flavor of what we’ve got—from the Gropius House in Lincoln to Jackson Square in Roxbury, from the Genzyme Center in Cambridge to Chinatown; from Mass MoCA to the “new Providence.”We will travel on foot, bike, boat, kayak, Acela, and, when we must, bus. And we will take you on the T (the oldest subway system in the United States).
Join us on a tour to the top of our highest building; to the furthest reaches of Olmsted’s Emerald Necklace; to Castle Island, Spectacle Island, and Mount Auburn Cemetery; and the illuminated Boston after dark. Spend a day touring Cambridge or travel further north to the Kahn Library and the Zimmerman House in New Hampshire.
We will take you to the new Institute of Contemporary Art and the reinvented Boston Children’s Museum, both just a block from the convention center.We’ll visit artist studios across the city; we’ll explore new and historic theaters, the Museum of Fine Arts, and the Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum and the Peabody Essex Museum.
Perhaps you prefer a little jazz at Berklee College of Music; then on to the Mapparium, Symphony Hall, and the New England Conservatory of Music—in the company of architects and acousticians.
Of course, there will be lots of history: Harvard Yard, Salem, Beacon Hill, and Tory Row;Trinity Church, the Boston Public Library, and Henry Hobson Richardson’s astonishing work in North Easton.
We will share the legacy of the more recent past, too: Six Moon Hill,Tent City, and Villa Victoria; the Big Dig and the Big Dig House;Wally’s Jazz Café and Charlie’s Sandwich Shop; the Carpenter Center, hip Davis Square, and the surprises of Dorchester’s Lower Mills.Your tour guides will include teens, activists, and architects, along with a lot of other people who love this town.
There will be chances to visit cutting-edge biotech and medical facilities; the new Rose Kennedy Greenway, the Seaport District, the Charles River Basin, and the Charlestown Navy Yard.
And if that’s not enough, we’ll serve you breakfast at Fenway Park where you will hear echoes of yesterday’s heroes while viewing the newest old ballpark in America (open to all—even Yankees fans).
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