In article <[log in to unmask]>,
   Christopher Henry Whittle <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
>Do not miss:
>
>Sturbridge Village, Sturbridge Ma. (Living History)
>Hancock Shaker Village (History) Hancock, MA
>Phil. Academy of Science, and other Phil. Museums, Art History etc.
>Yale Peabody Museum, New Haven
>Baltimore has art and science museums
>American Museum of Nat Hist and Manhatten Museums.
>
>They are all on your way up.

I wouldn't exactly consider Sturbridge and Hancock "on the way up".  Well
Sturbridge, maybe, if the drive up goes through Hartford, but Hancock is in
the western part of Massachusetts (the Cape is all the way to the east) and
someone would have to go out of their way to stop en route.  Not that it
isn't worth a detour and there *are* other places out in the Berkshires
(the Rockwell museum, Chesterwood, Tanglewood spring to mind).

Anita: If you want to go an hour or so north of Boston, the Peabody Essex
Museum in Salem is one of my favorites.  About an hour north-west is
another favorite place -- Lowell National Park.  More on your route, though
I haven't visited them, are the New Bedford Whaling Museum and Heritage
Plantation (in Sandwich).  While not quite a museum/historic site, the
Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute might be worth considering as well.

Have a great trip!

>On Fri,
>1 Aug 1997,
>Anita Cohen-Williams wrote:
>
>> I am planning to take a trip to the northeastern coast of the US in the
last
>> two weeks of August. We will be driving from the Baltimore-Washington
>> airport up to Cape Cod.
>>
>> Apart from visiting Boston, Plymouth Plantation, and Mystic Seaport,
what
>> other museums/historic sites can people recommend? Our 6-year-old
daughter
>> will be with us as well (a dedicated museum visitor already!).
>>
>> Thanks for any information.
>>
>>
>> Anita Cohen-Williams
>> Listowner of HISTARCH, SUB-ARCH, and SPANBORD
>> Co-listowner/manager of ANTHRO-L
>> Contributing Editor, Anthropology, Suite101 <http://www.suite101.com>
>> [log in to unmask]
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