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BASKETBALL HALL OF FAME
Category: Sights of Interest
Telephone : 413-781-6500
1000 West Columbus Ave., Springfield, 413-781-6500. Sun–Fri 10 a.m.–4 p.m., Sat from 9 a.m.–5 p.m.Tickets: $16.99; seniors $13.99; children (5–15) $11.99; (4 & under) free. In 1891, James Naismith developed the game of basketball and its original 13 rules in Springfield, Mass. Now Springfield is home to the Hall of Fame, an edifice that pays homage to the greatest to play and coach the game, like Bill Russell, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan and Duke coach Mike Krzyzewski. The Hall of Fame also includes interactive basketball fun for visitors and numerous exhibits.
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DR. SEUSS NATIONAL MEMORIAL SCULPTURE GARDEN
Category: Sights of Interest
220 State St., Springfield, 413-263-6800. Sculpture Garden is open daily from 9 a.m.–8 p.m. This fitting artistic tribute—as well as a museum devoted to Theodore Seuss Geisel’s literary accomplishments and favorite characters like the Lorax, Yertle the Turtle, the Sneeches and Horton the Elephant—was created by Geisel’s step-daughter, Lark Grey Diamond-Cates. Besides the sculpture of Geisel sitting at a drawing board with the Cat in the Hat as his muse, pieces include the Yertle the Turtle Tower and the Grinch.
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ELM BANK RESERVATION
Category: Sights of Interest
Telephone : 617-698-1802
Wellesley, 617-698-1802. Reservation is open dawn to dusk year round, gates open at 8 a.m. Bordered by the Charles River on three sides, Elm Bank Reservation is 182 acres of woodlands, fields and old estate property. Deer and other wildlife live along the river banks of the reservation, which also contains areas for hiking, playing soccer, canoeing, kayaking and picnicking.
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MINUTE MAN NATIONAL HISTORICAL PARK
Category: Sights of Interest
Telephone : 978-369-6993
Concord and Lexington (North Bridge Visitor Center, 174 Liberty St., Concord), 978-369-6993. Park grounds open sunrise to sunset. Created in 1959 to preserve the sites associated with the opening battles of the American Revolution, Minute Man Park consists of more than 900 acres of land along original segments of the Battles of Lexington and Concord, including Lexington Green and Concord’s North Bridge. The park also preserves The Wayside, the 19th-century home of literary greats Nathaniel Hawthorne, Louisa May Alcott and Margaret Sidney.
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OLD STURBRIDGE VILLAGE
Category: Sights of Interest
Telephone : 508-347-3362
1 Old Sturbridge Village Road, 508-347-3362. Daily 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Tickets: $20; seniors $18; children $7 (under 3 free). Take a trip back in time at this recreation of an early 19th-century New England village where costumed educators show visitors what life in the early days of America was really like. Visit a tin shop, a cider mill and a blacksmith, ride the old-fashioned yellow stagecoach and tour restorations of period New England homes while marveling at authentic remnants from a long-gone age.
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PLIMOTH PLANTATION
Category: Sights of Interest
Telephone : 978-369-6993
137 Warren Ave., 508-746-1622.Henry Hornblower II Visitor Center: 9 a.m.–5:30 p.m.; Nye Barn, Hobbamock’s (Wampanoag) Homesite, 1627 Pilgrim Village, Crafts Center: 9:30 a.m.–5 p.m. Tickets: $28; seniors $25; children (6–12) $18. When the Pilgrims landed in America during the 17th century, they landed at Plymouth Rock. They built their settlement three miles south of the rock and named it Plimoth Plantation. Today, visitors can tour the Plantation and see how the Pilgrims went about their daily lives, hunting, gathering and making crafts. Special exhibit: FlightPath: Plymouth Beach, photographs by Jim Fenton.
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