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Whoa that was long! Anyways, on this web page you will find many interesting facts about Massachusetts and its many forms of tourism. Also I will share with you the easiest way to get to Massachusetts, room rates, seasons, tourist attractions, museums, national monuments, fun cities, and how to be safe and have fun! So sit back and enjoy Brittany's Web page!!</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="008a4130.jpg" border=0 width="420" height="275" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <div> <I><B><U>~*The Safety Of Boston*~</U></B></I></div> <div> Visitors should feel safe in Boston's business, shopping, historical, and entertainment districts. It is wise for visitors unfamiliar with the city to avoid outlying areas and poorly-lit side streets. By day, Boston is a great walking city, with a compact downtown area. Public transport is safe well into the evening. After dark, taxis, which are relatively inexpensive, are the best option. </div> <div> <I><B>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><U>*~Cape Cod*~</U></B></I></div> <div> <I><B><U>Some Attractions include....</U></B></I></div> <div> <B>·</B><B> </B><B>Sandwich Glass Museum</B><B> - Museum </B></div> <div> <B>129 Main St, Sandwich (508/888-0251). Fourteen galleries house artifacts from the Boston & Sandwich Glass Company, which set up here in 1825 (Apr-Oct daily 9.30am-4.30pm, Nov-Dec & Feb-March Wed-Sun 9.30am-4pm; $3.50).</B></div> <div> <B>·</B><B> </B><B>Sturgis Library</B><B> - Historical library </B></div> <div> <B>3090 Route 6A, Barnstable (508/362-6636). The oldest public library building in the country contains genealogical records dating back to the area's first European settlers and other historical gems (year-round Mon & Wed 10am-2pm, Tues & Thurs 1-9pm, Fri 1-5pm, Sat 10am-4pm; free).</B></div> <div> <B>·</B><B> </B><B>Monomoy National Wildlife Refuge</B><B> - Barrier beach </B></div> <div> <B>Tours by Cape Cod Museum of Natural History (508/349-2615) and by Wellfleet Bay Wildlife Sanctuary (508/349-2615). This fragile barrier beach is a stopover point for three hundred species of shorebirds and migratory waterfowl.</B></div> <div> <B>·</B><B> </B><B>Cape Cod National Seashore</B><B> - National park </B></div> <div> <B>The Salt Pond Visitor Center, on Route 6 just north of Eastham (508/255-3421). A beautiful, unspoiled area of beaches, marshes and woods stretching some forty miles from Chatham north to Provincetown.</B></div> <div> <B>·</B><B> </B><B>Pilgrim Monument</B><B> - Tower </B></div> <div> <B>Town Hill, Provincetown. Modeled on a bell tower in Siena, Italy, the 252ft high Monument commemorates the pilgrims landing and their signing of the Mayflower Compact (July & Aug daily 9am-7pm; May, June, Sept & Oct daily 9am-5pm; $5).</B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><U>Overview!!</U></B></I></div> <div>  Only Provincetown, on the tip, manages to successfully mesh the past with the present; its unique art galleries, shops and restaurants making it far and away the destination of choice here. Still, there are plenty of sights to see on the way, like the villages of Sandwich, Brewster and Chatham and the extensive Cape Cod National Seashore, with miles of pristine dunes, woods, creeks and marshes to explore.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Thinking of the Cape, as everyone does, as an arm, these strictures apply most forcefully to its </B><B>upper </B><B>section, the thirty-mile eastward stretch closest to mainland Massachusetts. Much the worst of the beachfront development lies along the southern shore, and </B><B>Hwy-28</B><B>, running from Falmouth via Hyannis to Chatham, gets especially clogged. Only once you get beyond the "elbow" and head north past the spectacular dunes of </B><B>Cape Cod National Seashore </B><B>do you get a feeling for why the Cape still has a reputation as a seaside wilderness. </B><B>Provincetown</B><B>, right at the end, is the one town on the Cape that can be unreservedly recommended.</B></div> <div> <B>Sadly, the islands of </B><B>Martha's Vineyard </B><B>and </B><B>Nantucket</B><B>, off the Cape to the south, are now also dependent on summer tourism for their livelihood. However, a trip out to Nantucket in particular does still evoke haunting memories of its proud seafaring days.</B></div> <div> <B>Cape Cod was named by Bartholomew Gosnold in 1602, on account of the prodigious quantities of cod caught by his crew off Provincetown. Less than twenty years later the Pilgrims landed nearby; in the few months before moving on to Plymouth, they began the process, continued by generations of Europeans, of stripping the interior of the Cape bare of its original covering of thick woods. </B></div> <div> <IMG SRC="00b09b30.jpg" border=0 width="265" height="179" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></div> <div> <I><B>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</B></I></div> <div> <I><B><U>~*Martha's Vineyard*~</U></B></I></div> <div> <I><B><U>Some Attractions Include.....</U></B></I></div> <div> <B>Vineyard Museum</B> - Museum </div> <div> Cooke St at School St, Edgartown (mid-June to Aug Wed--Fri 1--4pm Sat 10am--4pm; 508/627-4441). A complex of buildings contains a pre-Revolutionary house full of whaling relics, and, best of all, an Oral History Center. $5.</div> <div> <B>·</B> <B>Chilmark Cemetery</B> - Historic attraction </div> <div> South Rd, Chilmark. The final resting place of John Belushi, whose unmarked grave is guarded from souvenir collectors by a decoy near the gate. </div> <div> <B>·</B> <B>Gay Head</B> - Cliffs </div> <div> West end of the island. The multi-colored Gay Head Cliffs' brilliant hues are the result of millions of years of geological work - a natural wonder. </div> <div> <B>·</B> <B>Chappaquidick Island</B> - Natural attraction </div> <div> Natural history tours (508/627-3599). The island abounds in beautiful beaches and wildlife reservations; natural history tours are available during the summer.</div> <div> <B>·</B> <B>Cottage Museum</B> - Museum </div> <div> 1 Trinity Park, Oak Bluffs (mid-June to Sept Mon--Sat 10am--4pm). This 1867 Museum, surrounded by gingerbread cottages, offers a charming collection of artifacts tracing the history of the Oak Bluffs' campground. $1. </div> <bR> <div> Bigger than Nantucket, Martha's Vineyard encompasses more physical variety, too, with hills and pastures providing scenic counterpoints to the beaches and wild, windswept moors on the separated island of Chappaquidick. Roads throughout the island are framed by knotty oak trees, lending a romantic aura to an already pretty landscape. The most genteel town on the island is Edgartown, all prim and proper with its freshly painted, white clapboard colonial homes and manicured gardens. The other main town, Vineyard Haven, has a more commercial atmosphere, not surprising when you consider that it's one of the main places where the ferries come in. Oak Bluffs, in between the two (and the other main docking point for ferries), has an array of wooden gingerbread cottages and inviting eateries. Regardless of where you visit, watch out for the terminology: heading "Up-island" takes you, improbably, southwest to the wondrous cliffs at Gay Head; conversely, "Down-island" refers to the easterly towns of Vineyard haven, Oak Bluffs and Edgartown.</div> <bR> <div> <B>Ferries to the island arrive either at </B><B>Oak Bluffs</B><B>, where genteel Victorian terraced cottages look down on the harbor and there's a colorful century-old fairground carousel near the jetty, or at the more upmarket </B><B>Vineyard Haven</B><B>. </B><B>Edgartown</B><B>, over to the east, is the oldest settlement on the island, and has been extravagantly dolled up for visitors (you may recognize it as the location for the </B><B>Jaws </B><B>films). A little ferry shuttles back and forth from Edgartown to adjacent </B><B>Chappaquiddick Island </B><B>(the bridge which Senator Edward Kennedy made infamous is on the far side).</B></div> <bR> <div> The three principal island communities are connected by a regular bus service and offer full facilities and shops of every kind. They're quite mellow places to pass a summer's day, but much the best idea on a visit to Martha's Vineyard is to explore the island for yourself. Bringing a car over is expensive and rather pointless, but as soon as you get off the ferry you encounter rows of <B>bike </B>rental places. The best ride is along the State Beach Park between Oak Bluffs and Edgartown, with the dunes to one side and marshy Sengekontacket Pond to the other; purpose-built cycle routes continue to the youth hostel at West Tisbury. </div> <div> Trips around the west side of the island ("up-island") can be disappointing, with not a peep at the ocean beyond the private estates; however, you do eventually come to the <B>lighthouse </B>at <B>Gay Head Cliffs</B>, where the multicolored clay was once the main source of paint for the island's houses – anyone caught removing any clay faces a sizeable fine. The cliffs are not vast, and they're crumbling away so fast that it's not safe to approach them too closely. From Gay Head public beach below, however, you can get some great views of this spectacular mass. </div> <bR> <div> <I><B><U><IMG SRC="0132ae00.jpg" border=0 width="298" height="224" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></U></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><U>*Nantucket*</U></B></I></div> <div> <I><B><U>Some Attrations Include......</U></B></I></div> <div> <B>Museum of Nantucket History</B><B> - Museum </B></div> <div> <B>Straight Wharf (508/228-3899). Atmospheric museum crammed with exhibits depicting the waterfront before the disastrous fire of 1846. Free.</B></div> <div> <B>·</B><B> </B><B>Nantucket Whaling Museum</B><B> - Museum </B></div> <div> <B>Broad St (late-Apr to Oct; 508/228-1736). Showing off evocative whaling artifacts, such as scrimshaw and the astonishing harpoon corkscrewed in the death throes of a hunted whale. $5. </B></div> <div> <B>·</B><B> </B><B>Siasconset </B><B>- Village </B></div> <div> <B>7 miles east of Nantucket Town. Known for its set of venerable, seaside cottages literally encrusted with salt and covered with roses.</B></div> <div> <B>·</B><B> </B><B>Madaket</B><B> - Village </B></div> <div> <B>At the western tip of Nantucket. Standing on the small settlement where first European settler Thomas Macy landed in 1659. Few proper exhibits, but peaceful and surrounded by gorgeous scenery.</B></div> <div> <B>·</B><B> </B><B>Coatue-Coskata-Great Point</B><B> - Wildlife refuge </B></div> <div> <B>Off Wauwinet Rd. A five-mile-long, razor-thin slice of sand taking in three wildlife refuges populated by plovers, egrets, oystercatchers and osprey. </B></div> <bR> <div> <B>The thirty-mile, two-hour sea crossing to Nantucket may not be an oceangoing odyssey, but it does set the "Little Gray Lady" apart from her large, shore-hugging sister, Martha. Just halfway out from Hyannis, neither mainland nor island is in sight, and you realize why the Native Americans dubbed it "distant land." Once you've landed, you can avert your eyes from the smart-money double-deck cruisers and let the place remind you that it hasn't always been a rich person's playground. The tiny, cobbled carriageways of Nantucket Town itself, once one of the largest cities in Massachusetts, were frozen in time by economic decline 150 years ago. Today, this area of delightful old restored houses is very much the center of activity, while seven flat easily-cyclable miles to the east, the pretty, rose-covered cottages of Siasconset (always abbreviated to `Sconset) give another glimpse of days gone by. But it's Nantucket's natural beauty that's the main draw, with heaths and moorlands, mile after mile of fabulous beaches, and a network of bicycle paths that connect the many spots maintained by conservation trusts.</B></div> <div> <B>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</B></div> <div> <B>~*Driving Directions From Coral Springs to Boston MA*~</B></div> <div> <B>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ </B></div> <div> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF3399" FACE="Arial" ><B>Directions</B></FONT> <FONT SIZE="2" COLOR="#FF3399" FACE="Arial" ><B>Miles</B></FONT> 1. Start out going Northeast on <B>COUNTRY</B> <B>CLUB</B> <B>OF</B> <B>CORAL</B> <B>SPRINGS</B> <B>ACC</B>. 0.0 2. Turn LEFT. 0.0 3. Turn RIGHT. 0.0 4. Turn RIGHT onto <B>W</B> <B>SAMPLE</B> <B>RD/FL-834</B> <B>E</B>. 1.2 5. Turn LEFT onto <B>N</B> <B>UNIVERSITY</B> <B>DR/FL-817</B> <B>N</B>. 2.0 6. Take the <B>SR-869-TOLL</B> <B>NORTH/SAWGRASS</B> <B>EXWY</B> ramp towards <B>W</B> <B>PALM</B> <B>BCH/FLORIDA'S</B> <B>TURNPIKE</B>. 0.5 7. Merge onto <B>FL-869</B> (Portions toll). 5.7 8. Stay straight to go onto <B>SW</B> <B>10TH</B> <B>ST</B>. 2.1 9. Take the <B>I-95</B> <B>NORTH</B> ramp towards <B>W</B>. <B>PALM</B> <B>BCH.</B>. 0.3 10. Merge onto <B>I-95</B> <B>N</B>. 308.9 11. <B>I-95</B> <B>N</B> becomes <B>I-95</B> <B>N/FL-5</B> <B>N/US-1</B> <B>N</B>. 0.6 12. Take <B>I-95</B> <B>N</B>. 696.0 13. Take the <B>I-395</B> <B>NORTH</B> exit, exit number <B>170A</B>, on the left towards <B>WASHINGTON</B>. 0.2 14. Merge onto <B>I-395</B> <B>N</B>. 0.0 15. Take the <B>I-495</B> <B>NORTH</B> exit, exit number <B>170B</B>, towards <B>ROCKVILLE</B>. 0.5 16. Merge onto <B>CAPITAL</B> <B>BELTWAY</B>. 29.2 17. Take the <B>I-95</B> <B>NORTH</B> exit, exit number <B>27</B>, towards <B>BALTIMORE</B>. 0.4 18. Keep LEFT at the fork in the ramp. 1.0 19. Merge onto <B>I-95</B> <B>N</B> (Portions toll). 92.6 20. Take <B>I-295</B> <B>SOUTH</B> <B>RAMP</B> towards <B>NEW</B> <B>JERSEY</B> <B>TURNPIKE/DEL</B> <B>MEM</B> <B>BR/NJ-NY</B>. 1.4 21. Merge onto <B>I-295</B> <B>N</B>. 5.0 22. Stay straight to go onto <B>NEW</B> <B>JERSEY</B> <B>TURNPIKE</B> (Portions toll). 73.0 23. <B>NEW</B> <B>JERSEY</B> <B>TURNPIKE</B> becomes <B>NEW</B> <B>JERSEY</B> <B>TPKE</B> <B>CARS</B> <B>ONLY</B> <B>LN</B> (Portions toll). 32.8 24. Take <B>I-95</B> <B>N</B> towards <B>15W</B> <B>-</B> <B>16W</B> <B>-</B> <B>18W/GEO</B>. <B>WASHINGTON</B> <B>BR.(I-280)/MEADOWLANDS(RT-3)</B>. 0.6 25. Merge onto <B>I-95</B> <B>N</B> (Portions toll). 87.5 26. Take the <B>I-91</B> <B>NORTH</B> exit, exit number <B>48</B>, on the left towards <B>HARTFORD</B>. 0.4 27. Merge onto <B>I-91</B> <B>N</B>. 36.5 28. Take the <B>US-5</B> <B>NORTH</B> exit, exit number <B>29</B>, towards <B>EAST</B> <B>HARTFORD/BOSTON(I-84)/(CT-15)</B>. 0.4 29. Merge onto <B>US-5</B> <B>N</B>. 0.1 30. Stay straight to go onto <B>CT-15</B> <B>N</B>. 1.6 31. <B>CT-15</B> <B>N</B> becomes <B>US-6</B> <B>E</B>. 2.9 32. Stay straight to go onto <B>I-84</B> <B>E</B>. 37.8 33. Take <B>I-90</B> <B>EAST</B> <B>RAMP</B> towards <B>WORCESTER(I-495)/BOSTON(I-95)/N</B> <B>H/MAINE/CAPE</B> <B>COD</B>. 0.3 34. Merge onto <B>I-90</B> <B>E</B> (Portions toll). 55.7 35. Take the <B>EXPRESSWAY</B> <B>NORTH</B> exit on the left towards <B>CALLAHAN</B> <B>TUNNEL/LOGAN</B> <B>AIRPORT</B>. 0.3 36. Merge onto <B>US-1</B> <B>N/CENTRAL</B> <B>ARTERY/FITZGERALD</B> <B>EXWY</B>. 0.4 37. Take the <B>ATLANTIC</B> <B>AVE</B>. exit, exit number <B>22</B>, towards <B>NORTHERN</B> <B>AVE./HIGH</B> <B>ST/STATE</B> <B>ST</B>. 0.2 38. Turn LEFT onto <B>ATLANTIC</B> <B>AVE/SURFACE</B> <B>RD</B>. 0.1 39. Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto <B>SURFACE</B> <B>RD</B>. 0.0 40. Turn LEFT. 0.0 41. Turn SLIGHT RIGHT onto <B>BROAD</B> <B>ST</B>. 0.2 42. Turn LEFT onto <B>STATE</B> <B>ST</B>. 0.2 43. <B>STATE</B> <B>ST</B> becomes <B>COURT</B> <B>ST</B>. 0.1 44. Turn SLIGHT LEFT onto <B>TREMONT</B> <B>ST</B>.</div> <div> <B>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</B></div> <div> <B>*SEasons*</B></div> <div> <B>**************</B></div> <div> <B>Summer: Warm, mild temps, and ocean ready!!</B></div> <div> <B>Winter: Snow!!!! Skiing, sledding, tubing!!!</B></div> <div> <B>Spring: Gardeners! Contest!</B></div> <div> <B>Fall: Color Changing Leaves!!</B></div> <div> <B>~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~</B></div> <div> <B><IMG SRC="01650e60.jpg" border=0 width="336" height="230" ALIGN="BOTTOM" HSPACE="0" VSPACE="0"></B></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><U>Well I hope you enjoyed Brittany's Webpage!! </U></B></I></div> <bR> <div> <I><B><U>The End!!!!!!!!!</U></B></I></div> <bR> <bR> <bR> </td> </tr></table></body>