Exploring Massachusetts

Massachusetts is home to the oldest university in the country, Harvard. The capital city of Boston has cobbled streets and many historic landmarks.

If you like the outdoors, you can plan a vacation around winter, spring, fall, or summer activities. In winter, you can ice fish or visit a ski resort or ski cross-country.

Spring, summer, and fall can be spent fishing: inland lakes for flyfishing and the ocean for deep-sea fishing. Sailing and yachting along the Massachusetts Coast and the offshore islands of Martha's Vineyard and Nantucket.

The climate of Massachusetts is humid and warm in summer and cold and snowy in winter.

Massachusetts has played a prominent part in the history of the United States. Its settlers, striving for freedom for religious persecution. Boston became known as the "cradle of liberty" because its inhabitants were key participants in the Boston Tea Party and the abolition of slavery.

The state is filled with a rich cultural and art heritage. The Berkshire Mountain area is home to the Boston Symphony Orchestra, Jacob's Pillow Dance Festival, and the Norman Rockwell Museum.

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