The Freedom Trail is a walk through 16 important historical sites in Boston, telling us about the American Revolution and beyond. Created in 1958, it starts in Boston Common and is an easy walk due to a red line on the pavements you can follow. It goes through museums, churches, meeting houses, cemeteries, and parks and ends with a ship. Four kilometres of walk, that feels like eight because of the multiple stops, but a nice way of walking through Boston and learning its history en route.
“Puritan churches did not believe in religious icons or imagery, so the people of Boston used tombstones as an outlet for artistic expression of their beliefs about the afterlife. One of the most popular motifs was the “Soul Effigy,” a skull or “death’s head” with a wing on each side that was a representation of the soul flying to heaven after death. Elaborate scroll work, poetic epitaphs, and depictions of the Grim Reaper and Father Time also adorn many headstones (Granary Burying Ground).”