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Article: IN STEP WITH BOSTON OUT FOR A WALK IN A CITY WELL-SUITED TO IT.(Travel)
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- Daily News (Los Angeles, CA)
- Article date:
- September 21, 2003
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Byline: Story by Eric Noland Travel Editor
BOSTON - When some anti-tax activists decided to make a statement by dumping chests of tea into Boston Harbor, they faced only a short walk from their meeting house to the wharf.
When Paul Revere needed to get to the boat that would carry him across the Charles River, there to watch for lantern signals in the Old North Church, he did so on foot.
Now as in the 1770s, Boston is pleasantly compact - arguably the best city in the nation for walking. It was founded nearly 400 years ago on a small thumb of land, and although the edges have since been packed with fill dirt, the city is hemmed in to this day ...