Welcome to the History of the Americans podcast episode 82.

I'm your host, Jack Heneman, and I'm recording this on August 4th, 2022, in a secure, undisclosed location near Tupper Lake, New York. Today is actually my brother's

birthday, so give him a shout out. I'm spending two weeks with him this summer, and that hasn't

happened in a long time. It's awesome. If you were new to the podcast, we are telling the history

of the lands now encompassed by the United States from the beginning without presentism.

Okay, the summer being what it is, this episode is apparently following the last by close to two weeks,

longer than I like. But I had a good reason. My wife and I just spent more than a week road

tripping around New England.

And while we had an awesome time and saw a lot of history and ate some lobster rolls,

I did not get any writing done.

We started in Princeton, New Jersey, for obscure reasons mostly involving business in Philly.

And spent nights in New Bedford, Massachusetts, Boston,

Portland, Maine, Lubick, Maine, that would be the easternmost town in the United States.

Whitefield, New Hampshire, and Burlington, Vermont. Almost 1,200 miles along, we landed near Tupper Lake, New York this past Saturday afternoon, and we'll be here

with a family for another week yet. We did some history fun along the way, balanced by just plain old

fun. In New Bedford, we spent a good couple of hours in the Whaling Museum on the recommendation

of a cousin. And on the way to Boston, we stopped for an afternoon at the

recreation of Plymouth-Petuxet, which is a couple of miles from the original location. Both are

worth your time. In Boston, we walk most of the Freedom Trail, only to find that the Bunker Hill

monument was closed for entirely unclear reasons.

We enjoyed walking around Portland, but apart from inspecting a few historical markers,

we spent most of our time hunting for breweries and dive bars.

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