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Michele

@micheleinboston.bsky.social
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Energetic enthusiastic extrovert who gives walking tours of Boston, advocates for fire safety nationally, and loves reading, learning, spin, and yoga. She/her.

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Liam @othemts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
This Saturday, October 3rd, join @bostonbyfoot.bsky.social for a new historical walking tour of Eliot Burying Ground in Roxbury's Nubian Square! bostonbyfoot.org/tours/eliot-... #Boston
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Eliot Burying Ground | Boston By Foot
The Eliot Burying Ground has stood at the crossroads of Roxbury's history for nearly four centuries. From early Puritan settlers and Indigenous history to Roxbu
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Giving this tour (Notable Women of Beacon Hill) at 10 am tomorrow. Co-created by the Boston Women’s Heritage Trail and Boston By Foot, it’s a social history of Boston—from colonization into the early 20th century—through a female lens. bostonbyfoot.org/tours/notabl...
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Notable Women of Beacon Hill | Boston By Foot
Explore beautiful, historic Beacon Hill with your guide and be introduced to a variety of notable women who lived and worked in this neighborhood.Discover where
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
Funniest thing I’ve seen at the ball game in a long time. #redsoxnation #tolle #hug
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
I’m leading Boston By Foot’s “Road to Revolution” tour tomorrow. It starts at historic King’s Chapel. The church learned about the people who attended services there with their enslavers and commissioned a memorial to them. “Unbound” by Harmonia Rosales is a most beautiful and fitting work.
A sculpture of a seated Black woman wearing a long white dress, sitting on a dark gray pedestal, holding a birdcage with an open door.Close-up of the sculpture Unbound. A Black woman looks at a small bird sitting on top of a birdcage she is holding. The door of the birdcage is swung open.A side view of the sculpture Unbound. A seated Black woman wearing a long white dress holds an open birdcage in her right hand. Behind her, a small bird sculpture is sitting on the pedestal.
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 05/07/2026
Today’s annual tour for Independence Day, Footloose on the Freedom Trail, is always joyful for me. Yup, it was a scorcha - wicked hot! The crowds around Faneuil Hall were kinda bonkers, too. But as we approached the new Bill Russell Bridge, a hearty breeze picked up and Old Ironsides appeared.
Photo of Boston Harbor and the ship USS Constitution returning to the Charlestown Navy Yard. Ship had three masts but no sails.
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 04/07/2026
This was the best thing today (until I started watching Cape Verde battling Argentina in the field, that is). Delightful, creative, inspiring. Can’t wait to talk about the Revolution tomorrow on Footloose on the Freedom Trail! bostonbyfoot.org/tours/footlo...
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 23/05/2026
Today, I’m on a boat! Architecture Cruises have started for the season. Meet your Boston By Foot guide on board a craft operated by the Charles River Boat Company at CambridgeSide weekend mornings through the summer and fall! bostonbyfoot.org/tours/archit...
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 08/05/2026
Did you learn about Anthony Burns in school? No? You’re not alone. Boston By Foot has introduced me to history not in my public school education. On May 26, learn about the 1854 rendition (return to enslavement) of Anthony Burns, a freedom-seeker arrested in Boston by federal marshals.
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Rocking the Cradle: 172nd Anthony Burns Anniversary Town Meeting
Commemorate the 172nd anniversary of the rendition of Anthony Burns at Faneuil Hall with the National park Service.
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
I started my 20th season as a walking tour guide last weekend with our Boston By Little Feet tour, and I am giving the tour again this Saturday, April 18! Learn more and register: fareharbor.com/embeds/book/...
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Princess Vimentin PhD | Cancer Biologist @princess-vimentin.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
This is the last day of Women’s History Month. We didn’t get our rights by asking nicely. We protested. And it was hard. #Pinks
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 31/03/2026
I'm very excited that Boston By Foot tours are starting up this week! I'm leading the family-friendly Boston By Little Feet tour on both April 4 and 5. See bostonbyfoot.org/tours/boston... for more info and to register. Reflections on tours with kids: substack.com/home/post/p-...
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Experiencing Boston through a child’s eyes
Things I learned by giving walking tours to children
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 14/03/2026
I know what I’m doing on April 16! My friend Roberto is a brilliant artist and all-around amazing human. Can’t wait!
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 08/03/2026
A lifelong friend documented me learning how to make ricotta gnocchi from her mom. Very simple ingredients and process, but it’s a good thing she helped me with shaping/rolling the dumplings because it would have taken me hours! Fun and delicious!
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 01/03/2026
Went to see this exhibit on February 20 - the best thing I’ve done/seen all winter so far. I walk by the spot where this unbelievably talented artist had her Boston studio nearly every time I am downtown. The exhibit is beautifully curated and tells a life story along with showing the works.
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
I was a newly registered 18-year-old in 1984 when I cast my first vote in a presidential primary. Jesse Jackson set the stage for my lifelong pattern of voting my conscience. May he rest in power.
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 06/02/2026
Where were you during the Blizzard of 78? I was at home in Quincy’s Houghs Neck neighborhood watching our basement fill up with floodwater. I was 12. It was an epic storm with epic sledding and snow forts afterwards. I think school was closed for weeks.
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Joaquin Castro @joaquincastrotx.bsky.social · 01/02/2026
Yesterday, five-year-old Liam and his dad Adrian were released from Dilley detention center. I picked them up last night and escorted them back to Minnesota this morning. Liam is now home. With his hat and his backpack.
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Wilfredo Torres @wilfredotorres.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
For Liam.
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 23/01/2026
The spoiler’s in the title, but just in case you have never read/watched Little Women…don’t read any further! Everyone knows that a central drama of Louisa May Alcott’s classic novel is that Beth dies. This book asks, “but what if it was foul play?” I loved this bold contemporary take - read it!
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John Skiles Skinner @skiles.blue · 22/01/2026
"ICE has made the classic Nazi mistake. They've invaded a winter people in the winter."
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 22/01/2026
This rocks!
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Boston By Foot @bostonbyfoot.bsky.social · 19/01/2026
At the sculpture The Embrace on Boston Common, we celebrate the life and community of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. May his words and example continue to inspire and motivate. #MLKJrDay #TheEmbrace #loveissuchapowerfulforce
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
So much to learn, so little time! A selection of art/architecture finds/history finds and favorites from the first half of 2025. open.substack.com/pub/michele7...
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History, art and tour retrospective – January – June 2025
So much to learn, so little time!
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 08/01/2026
Happy birthday to my #shero Mary Kenney O’Sullivan! Born on this date in 1864 in Hannibal, Missouri, she fought for women’s rights in the workplace, a woman’s right to vote, and for safer conditions for all workers. She is memorialized in Hear Us, a multimedia installation in the MA State House.
Michele is standing next to a bronze bust of Mary Kenney O’ Sullivan. The frame is green marble with her name below and a quote above reading “I refused to do a man’s job without a man’s pay.”
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David Corn @davidcorn.bsky.social · 03/01/2026
A Mad King has usurped the power of Congress—which represents the American people. That is, he has seized power that belongs to you and me collectively. He has declared war without consultation with or approval from Congress. And with no imminent threat. This is a profound betrayal of the republic.
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 27/12/2025
My favorite photo from yesterday. Greatest Generation meets Gen Z for an epic sweater battle (my mom and the girlfriend of her youngest grandson). Guess I best represent Gen X next year…
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
I have so many thoughts about this. Excited that architects and designers are thinking about the design implications for a basic human function. And wondering why it takes our society so long to figure it out!
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 26/11/2025
My worlds collide: read my latest Woman Walking post about my deep connection with Boston and fire. #walking #history #architecture #Boston #fire
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My worlds collide: history, architecture and fire in Boston
Boston Reborn: After the Great Fire of 1872 was not made BY me, but it felt like it was made FOR me.
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 15/11/2025
Eleven Boston By Foot guides conducted 20 or more tours during the 2025 season. Here are 7 of us at the lovely year-end appreciation event! bostonbyfoot.org/blog/2025-an...
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
On what turned out to be a gorgeous fall day, I gave this tour for the 3rd and last time this year. Most of the people on the tour were fellow Boston By Foot guides and they burst into applause at the end. As we head into winter, accolades from other guides buoyed my spirits like nothing else could.
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
I’m excited to give walking tours anytime, but especially for the Boston Book Festival! I’m leading Literary Mini-Tours starting at 1 pm and 3 pm. Meet me in front of the Palace for the People (aka the Boston Public Library) for a 45-minute stroll through writerly history!
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
What a hilariously stupid account. Mayor Thomas Peacock of Quincy! Ha! The multi-term mayor is Tom Koch, as any self-respecting AI bot should know.
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
I was very delighted to see the Copley Square farmers market yesterday on a quick sojourn. Tuesdays and Fridays for a few more weeks!
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
I'm attending the premier and panel discussion for this film about the historic Allen School in Newton. Can't wait! @hubhistory.com I think you would enjoy this! www.westnewtoncinema.com/movie/an-unc...
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 04/10/2025
I’m back at it! Join me tomorrow for a walk through time in Boston!
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
I’ve been giving walking tours in Boston for 19 years (and hanging around near Faneuil Hall, the Blackstone Block, and Haymarket for a lot longer than that). And yesterday was the 1st time I noticed this 100-year-old plaque at 16 North St. about the unsung hero of 1775, William Dawes. #midnightride
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
Welcome, October!
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Boston By Foot @bostonbyfoot.bsky.social · 01/10/2025
Thursday, Oct 2 at 5 pm: Boston’s Chinatown! It’s one of the city’s smallest yet most vibrant neighborhoods. Explore one of the few surviving Chinatowns on the east coast with us! Register: bostonbyfoot.org/tours/boston... #ThingsToDoInBoston #walking #history
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 19/09/2025
This a classic “only in Boston” event. Does Boston have cliffs? No, she does not. Is Boston the only North American stop on the global Red Bull Cliff Diving competition circuit ? Yes, she is. Come watch people jump off a building into the harbor! It’s amazing.
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Old North @oldnorth1723.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Today, on the 85th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain, Old North's Congregation helped honour the 10 Americans who fought in the Royal Air Force (RAF) and Royal Canadian Air Force (RCAF) forces during this battle, the first military campaign fought entirely in the air.
The Rev. Dr. Matthew Cadwell and officials from the British and Canadian governments in front of Old North Church's War Memorial.
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 12/09/2025
This Saturday 9/13 at 1:30 pm, join me for Boston Reborn: After the Great Fire of 1872. This Boston By Foot tour is inside the 65-acre footprint of the fire. We’ll see what replaced the buildings that were destroyed. Details and tickets: bostonbyfoot.org/tours/boston...
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
Tonight, I am leading Road to the Vote, a @bostonbyfoot.bsky.social walking tour about Boston women in the suffrage movement. It’s the 105th anniversary of Tennessee’s ratification of the 19th Amendment, with a little nudge from an activist mom: www.washingtonpost.com/graphics/202...
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A mother’s letter, a son’s choice and the incredible moment women won the vote
In the summer of 1920, the country needed one more state to ratify the 19th Amendment, and the Tennessee General Assembly was deadlocked. Then state Rep. Harry T. Burn got a letter from his mother, Fe...
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 18/08/2025
I accomplished a long-time goal last week by visiting Orchard House, just a 25-minute drive from where I live. It was my first visit but won’t be my last! Seeing the place where Louisa May Alcott wrote Little Women was inspiring and poignant. #louisamayalcott #orchardhouse #concordma
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 17/08/2025
New post up on my Substack, Woman Walking! Seize the last of summer days and make some August adventures in Boston. open.substack.com/pub/michele7...
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 15/08/2025
Upcoming Boston By Foot tours and cruises I’m leading! -Architecture Cruise 10 am Aug. 16, Aug. 29, Sep. 7 -Road to the Vote, Aug. 18, 5:30 pm -Road to Revolution, Aug. 31, 10 am - Boston Reborn: After the Great Fire of 1872 - Sep. 13, 1:30 pm, Oct. 4, 11 am, Nov. 9, 11:30 am Tix: bostonbyfoot.org
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Boston By Foot | Walking Tours | Historical | Architecture
Boston By Foot is a non-profit educational organization committed to inspiring locals and visitors to discover and appreciate the diverse stories of Boston by exploring the cityscape together.
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 05/08/2025
I was in heaven yesterday, also known as the Radcliffe Quad (Harvard Radcliffe Institute in Cambridge)
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 29/07/2025
Keys to giving walking tours to children: end on time; ask questions to activate imagination; touch buildings; enjoy the funny things they say. #womanwalking #lifeofatourguide
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Experiencing Boston through a child’s eyes
Things I learned by giving walking tours to children
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 27/07/2025
I’m leading this tour tomorrow, come join me!
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 23/07/2025
The always-inspiring Shaw-54th Regiment Memorial still had flowers on it from the anniversary of the July 18, 1863 battle at Fort Wagner, SC, when I visited Sunday. Seeing the mini-bio of St. Gaudens, the sculptor, made me wonder what other such works have this kind of information. Few, I think!
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Michele @micheleinboston.bsky.social · 21/07/2025
Reflecting on my first years as a walking tour guide, as the country struggled with the effects of the Great Recession. open.substack.com/pub/michele7...
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Staycation!
The Great Recession and walking tours in Boston
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