Boston Common

But today we're looking at Boston from a different perspective, the perspective of someone exploring the city in a wheelchair.

Can you enjoy the Freedom Trail? Is the waterfront accessible? What about the famous Boston Common, the New England Aquarium, and those legendary seafood restaurants? And perhaps most importantly, how do you navigate a city whose streets were laid out long before anyone imagined a power wheelchair? I'm taking you on a wheelchair accessible journey through Boston, sharing some of the best attractions, transportation options, hotels, and restaurants to consider when planning a visit.

So let's head to Beantown and discover what Boston has to offer.

And don't worry, we won't make you run the Boston Marathon to see it all.

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Boston Common has been part of several of my visits to the city, and here are a couple of photographs from one of those trips.

That's me exploring the park in my power wheelchair, including a stop at the historic Parkman Bandstand.

The USS Salem was once used as a hospital and morgue for disaster victims in the 1950s, and many who died there remain.

Then there's the Boston Common.

Now, the Boston Common is absolutely beautiful.

But there are parts of it, and I strongly suggest anyone visiting the city walk through it, and walk through it in different parts of the day.

And yes, take a duck boat, but walk to the edges.

Different areas, like Central Park, feel different.

And I remember seeing the best concert by Santana in the Boston Common.

And of course, like I say, you have those duck boats.

He is celebrating this mass, All Saints Mass.

as a pro-life mass in conjunction with the knights of columbus uh and he's going to give the men who are marching uh uh that morning uh a blessing and then we will gather it's an eight o'clock mass i believe but then we'll be gathering at 10 o'clock at the planned parenthood on commonwealth avenue the men will march then to boston commons to the parkman grandstand Meanwhile, you and your affiliate organizations are going to, at 11 o'clock, have a rosary of reparation.

Yourself, Pat McCaskey, John Yep, Father Rick Heilman.

We'll be leading that rosary.

And then at the end of the rosary, you'll be welcoming the men who are coming from Planned Parenthood into the Boston Commons for the rally for personhood.

And the rally for personhood should start in and around noontime.

So that's the events, and you can either go to one of your websites, which you can give, but we're trying to coordinate now this huge event, which is really multiple events that are coming together through the grace of the Holy Spirit.

But we do want families.

You know what I'm saying, Jim?

I got one of the cookbooks at her event in Boston Common on Saturday, and I will show you tomorrow how she endorsed it to you.

Okay.

Thank you very much.

happen? Well, my brother and dad had a joke and magic shop in downtown Boston, the famous Little Jack Horner, right on Tremont Street.

It faces the Boston Common.

And, you know, we had a huge department of Halloween product.

And, you know, long before, much long before the temporary... you know, Halloween adventure stores and spirit stores, we were an all-year store for Halloween.

Here's WBZ's Mike Macklin.

They gathered on Boston Common, but not for the traditional rally with speakers.

The No Kings Coalition instead hosted a day of action here in Boston and at locations across Massachusetts and the nation to encourage voter participation in the midterm elections just two weeks away.

Rebecca Witter is executive director of Mass 5051.

So the plan is to get people to vote early, which just started here in Massachusetts, to make a plan to vote, to know your rights to vote, and also to start thinking about how you can protect these elections in case there is any sort of election interference.

Organizers of the voter registration efforts say President Donald Trump remains a threat to a fair and free election.

On Boston Common, Mike Macklin, WBZ, Boston's

News Radio.