Girl Gone Globetrotting

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A shot of my company picnic on the waterfront at the JFK Memorial Library in Boston, Mass. About 500 or 600 of my company’s employees on the lawn eating BBQ. Not a bad night.

Photograph by me, taken with Instagram for iPhone. July 2012.

Located adjacent to the Freedom Trail, the Omni Parker House is rife with history. It is the birthplace of Boston’s signature dessert, the Boston cream pie. And that’s not all. JFK proposed to Jackie at table 40 in the hotel’s restaurant. Malcolm X was a busboy in the same restaurant in the 1940s. Meanwhile, in the 1910s, Vietnam’s Ho Chi Minh was a baker in the hotel’s bakery. Perhaps he baked some Boston cream pie during his time in the states.

It’s not a very good picture, but I think the history behind the hotel is very interesting.

Photograph by me. October 2011.

UPDATE: Omni Hotels tweeted at me:

@shelby_hill Did you know that it was haunted? goo.gl/UoKou #trickandtweet

Very intriguing…