EASTERN USA & EASTERN CANADA Travelling Well Includes…
• TAUCK EXCLUSIVE – Filmed vignettes by filmmakers Ken Burns & Dayton Duncan that tell the stories of visionaries and ordinary people that shaped the places that define New England
• TAUCK EXCLUSIVE – Visit Ken Burns’s private studio in Walpole, New Hampshire • An exclusive wildlife presentation by an expert naturalist • Guided tours of the Mark Twain House and Harriet Beecher Stowe House in Hartford • Guided tour of legendary Fenway Park & a tasting tour of Charles Street eateries in Boston • Guided visits to a Shaker village and Billings Farm and Museum • Airport transfers upon arrival and departure as noted • 17 meals, service charges, gratuities to local guides, admission fees, taxes and porterage
tour of the venerable stadium; you may see landmarks like the Triangle, Pesky’s Pole, Duffy’s Cliff, and the legendary Green Monster. Then it’s on to Lexington Green, where the “shot heard ’round the world” was fired, and to Concord, where you’ll have lunch at the historic Concord Inn. Visit nearby landmarks charged with legend and poetry, including Concord Bridge, site of Emerson’s hymn and Daniel Chester French’s Minuteman statue. Next, you’ll travel to Hartford, Connecticut (famous as a major literary centre in the 19th century). Arrive in the late afternoon and check into your hotel in the heart of downtown; dinner tonight is at the hotel. Meals BLD
4. MARK TWAIN HOUSE & NOOK FARM This morning you’ll visit the Mark Twain House & Museum on Farmington Avenue, the writer’s beloved residence from 1874 to 1891. In his film Mark Twain, Ken Burns says of Samuel Clemens (Twain’s real name): “He was a tireless wanderer who lived in a thousand places all around the world. He would call just two of them home: the Missouri town of his childhood... and the magnificent Connecticut house he built for his wife and children, which he hoped would shelter them from hardship, but where heartbreak found them nonetheless.” Architect Edward Tuckerman Potter designed a “house fit for a poet” – a Victorian Gothic masterpiece of function and fantasy; its rooms, decorated by Louis Comfort Tiffany, brighten with stories on a private tour through the Clemens family’s inner life. Clemens flourished here as a writer, producing works including The Gilded Age, The Adventures of Tom Sawyer, The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, and A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court. And despite a series of tragedies endured by the family, he counted his years in Hartford as the happiest of his life. Only a few steps from Twain’s opulent mansion stands the more modest home of Harriet Beecher Stowe, author of Uncle Tom’s Cabin; in fact, Clemens built his home nearby to be close to her and to the enclave of writers, artists and radical thinkers in this neighbourhood known as Nook Farm. A private tour of Stowe’s home offers you insights into “the little lady who started the Civil War,” as President Lincoln called her; she was a powerhouse of political and social ideas. Leave Hartford and cross into central Massachusetts, stopping in
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historic Deerfield for lunch at the Deerfield Inn. Further north you’ll arrive at the Hawk Inn & Mountain Resort in Plymouth, Vermont, a classic New England inn set in the Green Mountains. This evening, you’ll hear a talk on preserving wildlife habitats and rehabilitating injured birds by an expert from the Vermont Institute of Natural Science. Meals BLD
5. FROM VERMONT TO KEN BURNS’S BACKYARD Cultural treasures beckon in the wilds of Cornish, New Hampshire, at the home of Augustus Saint-Gaudens – the pre-eminent sculptor of Beaux Arts-era monuments commemorating Civil War heroes. The artist bought the
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