This is the last set of pictures from my visit to Boston, the Capital and largest city of the State of Massachusetts, transformed from a relatively small and economically stagnant town of 10,000 people in 1720’s to the megapolis with population of 645,000 people in 2010’s. Founded in 1630, it’s one of the oldest cities in the United States of America.

*** Just FYI, An Gorta Mor or The Great Hunger, as it is more commonly referred to today, ranks among the worst tragedies in the sweep of human history. Between 1845 and 1850, approximately one million Irish men, women and children died of starvation or related diseases and a million more emigrated from Ireland. In 1847 alone, 37,000 Irish refugees landed in Boston, on the edge of death and despair, impoverished and sick. The Irish Famine Memorial in Snug park along the Freedom Trail is commemorating the Irish Potato Famine and triumph of those immigrants who came to Boston. Today, people of Irish descent form the largest single ethnic group in the city of Boston, Massachusetts, making up 20% of the population.

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Downtown Boston: Photo Highlights

Downtown Boston: Photo Highlights

Downtown Boston: Photo Highlights

Downtown Boston. View from the Skywalk Observatory

Downtown Boston: Photo Highlights

What Would You Bring?

Downtown Boston: Photo Highlights

The Irish Famine Memorial. Boston, Massachusetts

Downtown Boston: Photo Highlights

Downtown Boston. View from the Skywalk Observatory

Downtown Boston: Photo Highlights

The favorite chant of Red Sox fans ;)

Downtown Boston: Photo Highlights

Back To The Future

Downtown Boston: Photo Highlights

Stand in Opposition. The courtyard of the Old City Hall, Boston

Downtown Boston: Photo Highlights

Why does it remind me Georgia?

Downtown Boston: Photo Highlights

The Leonard P. Zakim Bunker Hill Memorial Bridge

Downtown Boston: Photo Highlights

Downtown Boston: Photo Highlights

Downtown Boston: Photo Highlights

The Office of The Jewish Advocate, a weekly Jewish newspaper

Downtown Boston: Photo Highlights

The CITGO Sign! Runners know what I mean

Downtown Boston: Photo Highlights

The Display in the Prudential Tower (The Pru)

 
 


 
 

Instagram Bonus: Boston Sox/Pats/Celtics/B’s Tattoo ;)

Boston Tattoo

Tattoo with the Red Sox, New England Patriots, Celtics and Bruins logos