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  • How to save time and avoid stress at the theme parks
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    How to save time and avoid stress at the theme parks

    ByEileen Ogintz August 4, 2013July 17, 2021

    I had another ace up my sleeve. We’d arranged a VIP tour guide for part of the day. Our guide could lead the way, taking us through the park in a way that we would maximize our time, answering the most arcane questions, knowing where the bathrooms were and having ponchos on hand for the water rides.

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  • A fun-filled day at the Harvard museum in Cambridge, MA
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    A fun-filled day at the Harvard museum in Cambridge, MA

    ByEileen Ogintz August 2, 2013July 8, 2021

    While most in the crowd continue toward Brattle Street, Alex and I turn right on Peabody and head toward the gates of Harvard Yard. We’re on our way to the Harvard Museum of Natural History located on Harvard’s picturesque campus at 26 Oxford Street. Founded in 1998, the museum is the most frequently visited attraction at the university.

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  • To Boston’s children’s museum celebrating 100 years of the power of play
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    To Boston’s children’s museum celebrating 100 years of the power of play

    ByEileen Ogintz August 1, 2013July 9, 2021

    When the kids lead the way, we’re guaranteed smiles rather than whines. And there’s no better place to let kids lead the way and to see the power of play in action than at the Boston Children’s Museum, which is celebrating its centennial this month on the South Boston Waterfront.

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  • Interacting with sharks at the New England Aquarium
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    Interacting with sharks at the New England Aquarium

    ByEileen Ogintz August 1, 2013July 8, 2021

    Do you know the difference between a seal and a sea lion? The nine and 10 year-olds attending the New England Aquarium’s summer Harbor Discoveries Camps enlightened me. “Sea lions can walk but seals can’t,” said nine year-old Sydney, adding that seals just have a hole where their ears are while sea lions have an external flap.

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  • Combining 17th and 21st Centuries in lodging in historic Boston
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    Combining 17th and 21st Centuries in lodging in historic Boston

    ByEileen Ogintz July 31, 2013July 9, 2021

    Boston is the kind of city where you can stay in historic hotels—the famous Fairmont Copley Place and Omni Parker House both are over 100 years old—or sleek new hotels like The Revere.

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  • Kids and families  at the site of the Boston Tea Party
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    Kids and families at the site of the Boston Tea Party

    ByEileen Ogintz July 30, 2013July 8, 2021

    It may be 90 degrees but we’re making believe it’s December—and we’ve time traveled back to 1773 –December 16, 1773 to be precise. We’re part of the night that literally changed the course of American history—The Boston Tea Party, of course. Welcome to the Boston Tea Party Ships and Museum

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  • “The Power of Play” at Boston Children’s Museum
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    “The Power of Play” at Boston Children’s Museum

    ByEileen Ogintz July 29, 2013July 8, 2021

    The kids at the huge waterfront museum were too busy having fun—from the toddlers in the PlaySpace wheeling mini grocery carts to the grade schoolers making their way up the soaring three story climbing structure. That’s the point as the museum celebrates it’s centennial.

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  • An unexpected find in Indianapolis – a foodie’s paradise
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    An unexpected find in Indianapolis – a foodie’s paradise

    ByEileen Ogintz July 28, 2013July 5, 2021

    But what I didn’t expect to find on my visit to Indianapolis was a place of second and third acts in life—successful second and third acts. Local farmers markets (there’s one just outside the door certain days of the week) and city markets like this give you a chance to meet locals wherever you are vacationing.

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  • An old-fashioned family getaway in Maine
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    An old-fashioned family getaway in Maine

    ByEileen Ogintz July 25, 2013July 7, 2021

    Maine is the kind of place for an old-fashioned family vacation with the chance to learn something new, whether you’re going fishing, stand-up paddle-boarding for the first time or maybe learning how to catch — and eat a lobster.

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  • USA Today on whether hotels are family-friendly; Eileen quoted
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    USA Today on whether hotels are family-friendly; Eileen quoted

    ByEileen Ogintz July 22, 2013July 16, 2021

    Eileen in quoted in USA Today column on how family-friendly some hotels are or are not.

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