My aunt - resident since 1960 - always maintained that the Blaschka collection is Boston's 'hidden gem' - 4300 plant specimens reproduced astonishingly accurately in glass as teaching aids for Harvard University's Botanical Museum. Nothing like it anywhere else.
(n.b. She also delights in correcting tour guides telling the Paul Revere yarn - he did not shout 'the British are coming' - at that time the colonists to all intents and purposes were the British!)
(n.b. She also delights in correcting tour guides telling the Paul Revere yarn - he did not shout 'the British are coming' - at that time the colonists to all intents and purposes were the British!)