Boston, Massachusetts is the historic port city of New England with a population 600,000 with 38 colleges and universities that hosts more than 16 million visitors annually from every corner of the globe.

It's a crucible of creativity.

I loved the city since I went to school there in the 1960's.

I still love Boston and that's why even though I have homes in Connecticut and Malaga, Spain and I am currently working in Saudi Arabia, I keep my Condo in Boston. [It's located just 10 minutes and a $10 taxi ride from Logan airportwhich is the most efficient international port of entry in America.]

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Boston is the largest city in New England. It is the economic and cultural center of the Northeast. It is the global leader in international trade and commerce. It was founded in 1630 by Puritan colonists from England. It grew and prospered based on their associated work ethic.

Today - Boston serves as Corporate Headquarters for nine giants of Industry Fortune 500 companies: Raytheon: Staples; MassMutual; State Street Bank; Boston Scientific for starters.

And there literally thousands of other businesses making a significant contributions to global trade.

Learning about one of the earliest businesses could be a fun family outing.

There are plenty of fun things to do (as a Family) in greater Metropolitan Boston.

Saugus Iron Works

I must admit,if someone had suggested such an outing to me(a few years ago), it probably would have triggered a flight of ideas, thoughts of smoke and soot, visions of the Industrial Revolution; but this site is in America and it preceded and was operational more than 100 years before the Industrial Revolution.

The Saugus Iron Works was the first iron foundry in America. It is an open-air museum run by the U.S. National Park Service.

Knowledgeable facilitators bring the foundry to life.

You will hear fires crackle and the bellows whoosh and see the waterwheels turn.

The one thing that never fails to impress is seeing and hearing the 500-pound hammer repeatedly crashed onto an anvil. Surely the noise cost many men some hearing impairment.

Noise abatement is the main focus of another local company based in Cambridge that would have been able to provide some relief to those early foundry workers, if only, it had existed in the 17th Century

During WWII, Oliver C. Eckel collaborated with Leo Beranek at Harvard University on the construction of the first anechoic chamber built

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