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Fall 2021 Schedule Features Four New Tours

Boston By Foot is offering four new walking tours this fall:

  • Change and Response: Boston's Architecture, 1837 - 2021
  • Black Voices: 19th-Century Black Writers on Beacon Hill
  • North End By Little Feet
  • Before Boston: Shawmut Peninsula Through 1630

Please see below for specific dates and descriptions.

Those interested in attending must register in advance using the links below.

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North End By Little Feet

This child's-eye view of Boston's North End is specially designed for young walkers (ages 6-12)

60 minutes
0.7 mile
mostly flat surfaces and little to no inclines

This child’s-eye view of the Freedom Trail in the North End, Boston’s oldest neighborhood, is specially designed for young walkers from 6 -12 years of age.

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Before Boston: Shawmut Peninsula through 1630

Explore 12,000 years of human activity on Shawmut Peninsula, the lands we now call Boston

90 minutes
1 mile
potential uneven surfaces and moderate inclines

Explore 12,000 years of human activity on Shawmut Peninsula, the lands we now call Boston. Follow in the footsteps of the Native people who first walked here. Learn how they hunted and fished, and worked with clay and textiles.

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Top row: Pauline Elizabeth Hopkins, Josephine St. Pierre Ruffin, & Martin Robison Delany.
Bottom Row: William Cooper Nell, & Frederick Douglass.

Black Voices: Writers for a 19th Century Revolution

Discover stories of Boston’s Black writers who were laser-focused on the great topic of the era - slavery

90 minutes
0.79 mile
likely uneven surfaces and significant inclines

Truth, passion, bravery and hope. Discover stories of Boston’s Black writers who were laser-focused on the great topic of the era - slavery.

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Change and Response: Boston’s Architecture

Take an in-depth look at the people, trends and events that led to Boston's architectural evolution

90 minutes
0.75 mile
mostly flat surfaces and little to no inclines

This tour tracks Boston’s development in chronological order on a walk that’s just a half-mile long. Along the way, we’ll be paying special attention to what Robert Campbell, the Boston Globe’s long time architectural critic, calls the encoded information that is present when we look closely at buildings. Things like:

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