Boston, Mass

We only spent a short time in Boston. As we are somewhat weary of world class natural history museums, we opted to check out the museum at the Harvard Medical School Library. Here we saw Civil War amputation kits, some interesting conjoined twin skeletons, as well as the skull of Phineas Gage, a man from the 1800's whose skull was impaled with a metal rod from his cheekbone out through the top of head. They say he could speak coherently right afterward, and although he survived for about 12 years, he never had the same personality. This was a medical milestone in that the scientific community learned a lot about the frontal lobe from his accident.

We also drove around Fenway Park, home of the Boston Red Sox. Fenway is a lot like Wrigley Field (home of the Chicago Cubs). We befriended a Boston Policeman, who let us park illegally and took our picture in front of the Ted Williams statue!