Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Day is national holiday, so no classes today. On Saturday we braved the brisk Atlantic wind to walk the Freedom Trail with Dr. Bernard. Clearly, Boston is a city where every single step brings you in touch with the thrill of American history.
The First Church of Boston in Back Bay is not an old building, but it is home to the oldest church congregation in the whole city, dating from 1630. And today I attended a knock-out beautiful and haunting musical celebration called The Ties That Bind concert in honour of Martin Luther King. The hall itself is acoustically heavenly, the singers, musicians and actors were eloquent and the program moved me to tears.
Other classmates screened the excellent documentary about Dr. King and the Memphis sanitation workers strike of 1968, "At The River I Stand." The front page of the Boston Globe trumpeted the Boston connection - Dr. King got his doctorate at Boston University and met his future wife here. Stories, stories, stories...in the red bricks, in the white churches, in the markets.
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