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67th IFLA Council and General Conference
Libraries and Librarians: Making a Difference in the August 16th - 25th 2001
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SIGHTSEEING TOURSPre-Post Conference ExcursionsBoston and its environs offer an exciting venue for IFLA 2001 participants and their companions. There will be opportunities to shop, attend musical events, visit museums, and explore historic and cultural sites. You can walk the Freedom Trail, wander about Harvard Square, run along the Charles River Esplanade, or Cruise Boston's harbor and waterways.Excursions are being arranged to the splendid mansions of Newport, Rhode Island, the villages and beaches of Cape Cod, the pastoral Berkshire Hills of western Massachusetts, and the quaint rockbound seacoast towns north of Boston. You'll even be able to experience the excitement of a whale watch off the New England coast or contemplate nature at Thoreau's house on Walden Pond. Other possibilities include the Mystic Seaport in CT, the Stockbridge Village and Lexington and Concord, MA., the White Mountains of New Hampshire or the Green Mountains of Vermont, the Isles of Shoals, and Strawberry Banks in Portsmouth, NH. Please check the appropriate box on the registration form to receive more information concerning the pre- and post conference excursions. Accompanying Person Tours
Boston - Yesterday and Today
Duration: estimated 4 hours Time of day: Morning Fee: USD 35.-
This bus and walking tour focuses on Boston as it is today and how it developed. Boston is America's oldest city and reveals its history in overlapping layers. Although there will be significant amounts of historical information on this tour, the primary interest is in current life styles. Cape Cod
Duration: full day Fee: USD 50.-
This is a long day but for many people a visit to New England is not complete without a visit to Cape Cod. Salem and Marblehead
Duration: estimated 4 hours Time of day: Morning Fee: USD 35.-
Eighteen miles north of Boston, the two communities of Salem and Marblehead display the diversity of New England's maritime history. Museums of Presidents
Duration: estimated 4 hours Time of day: Morning Fee: USD 35.-
Only the Boston area can boast of two presidential libraries! We will visit both.
Presidents John Adams and John Quincy Adamslived at "Peacefield", a lovely estate just ten miles south of Boston. The Adams family library displays the remarkable intellectual power of this family over four generations. Lowell - Where Women's Lib began
Duration: estimated 4.5 hours Time of day: Morning Fee: USD 35.-
Lowell National Park is devoted to the development of the American mill and textile industry that transformed New England from an agrarian society into an international industrial power. We will learn about the mill technology that freed America from the spinning wheel and handloom and lead to mass production and Henry Ford. But it was women who made up the first labor force in these mills. Here, for the first time, American women entered the commercial work world and started on the path that led to Women's Voting Rights and today's Women's Liberation. Saturday Sightseeing ToursWhales!
Fee: USD 50.- An immensely popular excursion takes us out on the "foaming deep" to view whales -- splashing, feeding, breaching, spouting (and sometimes watching us watching them!) The Stellwagen Bank area off the tip of Cape Cod is home in season to a large colony of these leviathans and our whale watching cruise boat, complete with highly knowledgeable commentary from professional narrators, will take us into the thick of them. This is one of those few experiences that cannot be duplicated in a theme park. You have to go where the whales are! This tour also includes a visit to the New England Aquarium. Sturbridge
Fee: USD 50.- A visit to Old Sturbridge Village is an opportunity to turn the clock back over 150 years and experience the life, work and celebrations of a rural New England community at the beginnings of the Industrial Revolution. Sturbridge Village consists of over 40 restored buildings set on 200 wooded acres. Displays and exhibits include a clock gallery, folk art and portraiture, firearms and militia accouterments, a working farm, blacksmith shop, sawmill, shoe repair shop, pottery barn, cooperage, gardens of culinary and medicinal herbs, and much more. Newport
Fee: USD 50.-
This is one of America's most fabled summer watering holes. To visit Newport is to jump into a different world where Astors and Vanderbilts thought nothing of setting aside $300,000 for summer entertaining -- in 1895! We will visit one of the lavish "summer cottages" that this pre-income tax group built for a ten-week season. We will stroll along the famed Cliff Walk and drive the scenic ten-mile Ocean Drive past one extravagant mansion after another. We will drive past Hammersmith, the spectacular (but modest in comparison) summer home of Jackie Onassis, scene of her wedding reception. We will shop and browse along Thames Street, admiring the splendid yachts that fill the harbor. Lunch is on your own. Gloucester and Rockport
Fee: USD 50.-
Following a drive north through some of Massachusetts' more affluent shore communities, we reach Gloucester. Longfellow was writing about Gloucester in The Wreck of the Hesperus, Kipling in Captains Courageous, Junger in The Perfect Storm. Gloucester has been a rough and tumble fishing community and seaport since the 1600's and still is a little raw. A tribute to the fishing industry is the famous Helmsman statue overlooking Gloucester Harbor. Outlet Shopping in Kittery, Maine
Fee: USD 50.-
Little over an hour north of Boston, Kittery boasts upward of 100 discount stores offering everything from designer clothes to bicycles. For international visitors, Kittery can be fabulous location for bargain shopping. Anyone interested in this trip should bring lists of sizes for the entire family. Boston - Yesterday and Today
Fee: USD 35.-
This bus and walking tour focuses on Boston as it is today and how it developed. Boston is America's oldest city and reveals its history in overlapping layers. Although there will be significant amounts of historical information on this tour, the primary interest is in current life styles. A Concord Pilgrimage 19th century home of literary giants
Fee: USD 35.- This tour will focus on the intellectual flowering of New England during the mid-19th century. These Transcendentalist writers were the "flower children" of their era and our tour will be interspersed with readings from all of them. (The tour will also be an opportunity for visitors to experience the charm of several New England communities outside the city.) We will visit one of the following (and see the others): Orchard House where Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women, Ralph Waldo Emerson's family home, the Manse where Nathaniel and Sophia Hawthorne honeymooned, or the Wayside where first the Alcotts and then the Hawthornes lived for many years. We will stop at the Old North Bridge where the American War of Independence began, made famous by Emerson's Concord Hymn. We will also pay homage to Henry David Thoreau at Walden Pond. Thoreau's writings have influenced Ghandi and Martin Luther King, Jr., among others. This is a thoughtful tour for fans of these writers, as well as of Horace Mann, Bronson Alcott, Elizabeth Peabody, and Margaret Sydney. If you have forgotten some of these names, we will refresh your memory with a stop at Sleepy Hollow Cemetery where they all rest. EBSCO Publishing Tour
Fee: sponsored by EBSCO Publishing EBSCO Publishing, a global leader in the supply of reference information to libraries, will be hosting a land and sea tour of its historic Ipswich based headquarters, the Essex River Basin and Ipswich Bay on Saturday, August 25, 2001. A traditional "New England Clambake" will be held in conjunction with this event. This event is going to be popular and availability is limited to the first 250 people who wish to participate. For more information about EBSCO Publishing please visit: www.epnet.com. |
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