I remember bringing my preschool son and my newborn baby girl to Lexington and Concord to watch the parade. The recommendation was to bury a statue of St. Joseph upside down with the head pointed toward the front door. The myth indicates that this practice will cause the house to be sold quickly, and success must be followed by digging up St. Joseph and putting the statue in a prominent place in the new home. We went there today to shop a little. There was an unbelievable line about a thousand people long waiting to get into the new Apple retail store .
Upscale shopping is very popular.
We purchased things from Hecht's and LL Bean. The economy must be in very good shape in this area. It is a fabulous IBM super computer that has 2000 CPUs and handles so much data that they will eventually be able to model from data in three-mile squares and 60 atmospheric levels around the world at one time. The second lecture was a history of the Middle East Wars in an hour and a half delivered in a very balanced presentation by the Hon. Philip Wilcox, former Chief of Mission to Jerusalem.