Briggs, Erin. Massachusetts Bucket List Adventure Guide. Canyon Press, 2022.
Reason read: For fun, I decided to read an adventure book about places to see in Massachusetts. Here are a few of my favorite selections:
- The Tiny Museum
- the Forest Park rose Garden
- Gunn Brook Falls
- Purgatory Chasm
- the EcoTarium
- Chesterfield Gorge Reservation
- Parker River National Wildlife Refuge
- Hancock Shaker Village (Natalie connection: she performed there!)
- Pontoosuc Lake (the book doesn’t mention swimming, but fishing is popular)
- Myles Standish Burial Ground
- the Museum of Bad Art
- New England Aquarium (a word to the wise: be mindful of price information. Even though — was published in 2022, the price listed is $10. It’s actually $44 unless you are a member, child, or senior citizen.)
- Warren Anatomical Museum (gets my vote for the strangest place)
- Boston Gardens where the Make Way for Ducklings statue is located (I did not know that the Mallard family all have names. The ducklings have J-Q names rhyming with “ack” and mama is just Mrs. Mallard.)
The only complaint I had about the book is that the book is organized in alphabetical order of town rather than adventure. You have to know where you are going before you can chose the event. The “did You Know?” section is a little goofy, but I did learn a few things.
~*LunaSea*~ 