This 6208-yard golf course offers a wonderful experience for players at all levels, and beautiful grounds to offer golfers the opportunity to enjoy a walk in the park. The property also has the closest driving range and practice areas to downtown Boston. (Curated content from www.brooklinegolf.com)
Longyear Museum is an independent historical museum dedicated to advancing the understanding of the life and work of Mary Baker Eddy, the Discoverer, Founder, and Leader of Christian Science. (Curated content from www.longyear.org)
Just ten minutes from downtown Boston and nestled inside the 64 beautiful acres of Larz Anderson Park, the Museum is home to “America’s Oldest Car Collection”. These automobiles form the Museum’s permanent collection and are housed within the Carriage House, built in 1888 and designed by the city architect of Boston, Edmund M. Wheelwright, who was also responsible for several notable Boston structures like the Boston Public Library. (Curated content from larzanderson.org)
Do you have what it takes to escape the room in 60 minutes? You are trapped in a room. As you look around you start to notice strange objects and messages - or are they clues? - hidden around the room. Can you and your team solve the puzzles, decode the locks, and escape within one hour? (Curated content from www.puzzlebreakma.com)
The Newton Commonwealth Golf Course is an 18-hole public golf course located in Newton, Massachusetts, just outside the city of Boston. The course was originally created as a nine-hole course in 1897 and was previously named the Commonwealth Club. In 1920 it was redesigned by Donald Ross. (Curated content from newtongc.com)
The Arnold Arboretum of Harvard University is a museum of trees teaching the world about plants. (Curated content from arboretum.harvard.edu)
Here the Colonial militia mustered for the Revolution. In 1768, the hated British Redcoats began an eight-year encampment. George Washington, John Adams and General Lafayette came here to celebrate our nation's independence. The 1860s saw Civil War recruitment and anti-slavery meetings. During World War I, victory gardens sprouted. For World War II, the Common gave most of its iron fencing away for scrape metal. (Curated content from www.boston.gov)
The Old State House was the focal point for many of the dramatic events of the Revolution in Massachusetts, although it was not known as the State House until after the Revolution. When this building was first constructed in 1713, it was known as the Town House and it was the center of royal government in the Massachusetts Bay colony. (Curated content from www.revolutionaryspaces.org)
The Conservancy connects people and parks and conserves the Emerald Necklace through projects and programs that enrich the visitor experience and restore and renew the landscape, waterways and parkways. To steward the Emerald Necklace’s 1,100 acres of parkland extending from Boston’s Back Bay through Brookline and Jamaica Plain to Franklin Park in Dorchester, the Conservancy collaborates with its partners on advocacy, maintenance and restoration, education and access and promoting park stewardship through volunteer and youth programs. (Curated content from www.emeraldnecklace.org)
Named after BU’s first astronomy professor, the observatory provides attendees with access to Schmidt-Cassegrain telescopes and binoculars, so they can gaze into the night sky (Curated content from www.bu.edu)