Before we left Rhode Island we saw H.P. Lovecraft's last house in Providence, in which he wrote “Haunter of the Dark. (Though the house was moved a few blocks from College Street from when he lived in it.)
At the John Hay library we looked at an Exhibit about Mumia Abu-Jamal called “A portrait of incarceration.”
Mumia Abu-Jamal is an American political activist and journalist who was convicted of murder and sentenced to death in 1982 for the 1981 murder of Philadelphia police officer Daniel Faulkner. While on death row, he has written and commented on the criminal justice system in the United States. — Wikipedia
On the wall was the notes of some music he’d written. I typed the notes into an application so see what it sounded at. To my ears, not great.
Back into Massachusetts for the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum in Boston.
The family bible on which JFK swore the oath of office. His Uncle had been the keeper of the bible and had it ready in a shopping bag ready for the agents to come and collect.
The cafe overlooks the bay into which tea is sometimes thrown.
The Boston Tea Party was an American political and mercantile protest on December 16, 1773 by the Sons of Liberty in Boston in colonial Massachusetts. — Wikipedia
We watched an interesting documentary on The Cuban Missing Crisis (as opposed to The Cuban Visa Crisis, obviously.)
The final visit was to the Museum of Bad Art. The was as advertised. Since we’d noted down the address it was moved to the Dorchester Brewery.
