Are We There Yet?
Sort of. My favorite detail is how the Freedom Trail is rendered as a walk through a pastoral landscape, like an English hiking trail.
Sunday, July 24, 2011
Sort of. My favorite detail is how the Freedom Trail is rendered as a walk through a pastoral landscape, like an English hiking trail.
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haha, not to mention the site of the tea party is now landlocked and the Minuteman statue is not in Boston but Lexington! But still, 'tis cute.
Also, that lighthouse looks suspiciously like this one, 75 miles away in Maine.
This is at least the third time that Bil Keane (and son) have printed this series on Boston. The panels must go back at least 20 years by now. They've also done similar family vacations in some other cities such as Philadelphia and Chicago.
The familycircus.com website you link to doesn't have this week's panels yet. But I found them on another site, [http://www.arcamax.com/thefunnies/familycircus/]
They flew into Boston last Monday (July 18); so far they've seen the Paul Revere statue, Old North Church, USS Constitution, the Freedom Trail, and Beacon Hill. I expect that they'll be here another week as well.
Obviously, I can’t tell a new Family Circus from one that’s twenty years old. But that’s part of the strip’s charm, I guess.
Maybe some year we’ll see the Freedom Trail as Billy would trace it out, with a dashed line squiggling all over central Boston.
This isn't as bad as they made the Family Circus out to be in the movie Go:
Claire: What do you have against the Family Circus?
Todd: Okay, you sit down to read your paper, and you're enjoying your entire two-page comic spread, right? And then there's the Family f@#$ing Circus, bottom right hand corner, just waiting to suck. And it's the last thing you read, so it spoils everything you read before it.
Claire: You could just not read it.
Todd: I hate it, yet I'm uncontrollably drawn to it.
The Minute Man Statue, by Daniel Chester French, from 1874, stands in Concord. The statue of Capt. John Parker, Lexington militia commander, by Henry H Kitson, 1900, is in Lexington.
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