Society & Culture
On this episode of Out of Office: A Travel Podcast, Kiernan takes us back to Massachusetts for the second installment of the Great Boston Trilogy. With the big blockbuster attractions behind us, Kiernan covers his personal favorite parks, museums, and universities. Warning: he does mention Harvard excessively. Things we talked about in today’s podcast: Emerald Necklace Conservancy https://www.emeraldnecklace.org/ Franklin Park Zoo Remains https://www.onlyinyourstate.com/massachusetts/abandoned-zoo-ma/ Minuteman National Park https://www.nps.gov/mima/index.htm Minuteman Poster by Paul Rand https://americanart.si.edu/artwork/minute-man-35737 Arnold Arboretum https://arboretum.harvard.edu/ JFK Presidential Library Coconut https://www.jfklibrary.org/asset-viewer/coconut-bearing-rescue-message-mo-634852 New England Aquarium https://www.neaq.org/ Museum of Science https://www.mos.org/ “The Alchemist” at MIT https://listart.mit.edu/public-art-map/alchemist MIT Great Dome http://museum.mit.edu/150/70 MIT Campus Map https://whereis.mit.edu/ Sol LeWitt at MIT https://listart.mit.edu/public-art-map/bars-color-within-squares-mit MIT Museum https://mitmuseum.mit.edu/ 3 Lies on John Harvard https://blog.dce.harvard.edu/summer/3-lies-harvard Harvard Art Museums https://harvardartmuseums.org/ Rothko at Harvard https://www.newyorker.com/culture/cultural-comment/watching-them-turn-off-the-rothkos Harvard Natural History Museum Glass Flowers https://hmnh.harvard.edu/glass-flowers Northlandz Trainset https://northlandz.com/ New River Gorge National Park https://www.nytimes.com/2021/02/16/travel/national-park-new-river-gorge.html