{"id":1035,"date":"2010-10-05T23:41:07","date_gmt":"2010-10-06T03:41:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/?p=268"},"modified":"2010-10-05T23:41:07","modified_gmt":"2010-10-06T03:41:07","slug":"our-october-meeting-going-back-in-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/2010\/10\/05\/our-october-meeting-going-back-in-time\/","title":{"rendered":"Our October Meeting- Going Back in Time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Our October meeting was held at Minuteman National Park right within our cluster towns!\u00a0 It was really nice to see so many of you there from both Melinda\u2019s and Patti\u2019s cluster on one of the first days of October.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_285\" style=\"width: 267px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-285\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-285\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2010\/10\/IMG_04525-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Gathering at The National Park Visitor Center\" width=\"257\" height=\"170\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2010\/10\/IMG_04525-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2010\/10\/IMG_04525-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2010\/10\/IMG_04525-624x414.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2010\/10\/IMG_04525.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 257px) 100vw, 257px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-285\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gathering at The National Park Visitor Center<\/p><\/div>\n<p>We said farewell to two au pairs after their very successful years, greeted our many new au pairs, had a picnic, and heard one of very own au pairs play guitar, but there was even more!\u00a0 We went inside to hear about the first days of the American Revolution that started right here!\u00a0 We enjoyed a multi-media film narrated by Colonel Doolittle, a reenactment of the minuteman\u2019s responses to the British, and a tour of the historic Hartwell Tavern, one of the places where colonists gathered.\u00a0\u00a0 This makes the Minutemen&#8217;s struggles towards their goal of independence that much more real for all of us. Many au pairs can now better understand why we have somany tourists  arriving daily from all over the world!\u00a0 They are coming to see where  American freedom all began!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_286\" style=\"width: 274px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-286\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-286\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2010\/10\/IMG_04661-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"Hartwell Tavern\" width=\"264\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2010\/10\/IMG_04661-300x199.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2010\/10\/IMG_04661-1024x680.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2010\/10\/IMG_04661-624x414.jpg 624w, https:\/\/blogs.aupairinamerica.com\/boston1\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/36\/2010\/10\/IMG_04661.jpg 2048w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 264px) 100vw, 264px\" \/><p id=\"caption-attachment-286\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Hartwell Tavern<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Our October meeting was held at Minuteman National Park right within our cluster towns!\u00a0 It was really nice to see so many of you there from both Melinda\u2019s and Patti\u2019s cluster on one of the first days of October. 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