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And We’re Back…

23 Monday Apr 2018

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Just want everyone in the world to know that Boston Pilgrim Tours is back in action! Starting sometime in mid-June, our family is moving back to the great city of Boston. Which means that just in time for our 5 year anniversary on June 30, 2018, we will be  again offering faith-based tours of Boston. So sign up now for what will be our grand RE-opening in June.

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Our Farewell Tour

30 Friday Jun 2017

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Burned Over District, Upstate New York

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St. Botolph of Boston icon written by Zoya Shcheglov Photo by Peter VanDemark

June 13/30, Feast of St. Botolph (Old Style)
Abbot and Confessor, of Ikanhoe, England (+680)
Patron saint of all Travelers,
Boston, England (founded 654)
Boston, Massachusetts (founded 1630)
and Patron of Botolph’s Town Tours (founded 2013), Later Renamed Boston Pilgrim Tours

Greetings everyone on this 4th anniversary of our tour company. We have had a great fours years together seeing downtown Boston through the eyes of faith. It is with heavy heart that I announce the temporary suspension of our little fledgling company as its only guide and director (me) is moving with my family to upstate New York, land of the Second Great Awakening and the Burned Over District. Continue reading →

God is Not Dead in Boston

05 Monday Jun 2017

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motto of Boston

Friend of mine found this etched into a sidewalk in Boston’s financial district. It is the translation of the Latin motto for the city of Boston Sicut Patribus, Sit Deus Nobis, “As God was to our Fathers, so may he be to us.”

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Spring Tour

28 Friday Apr 2017

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Downtown with a group of friends and recent acquaintances before the great Park Street Church steeple. Only a few months left in our summer tours this year as I plan to move soon to another city, so book a tour while supplies last!

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Downtown Winter Tour

04 Wednesday Jan 2017

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Had my first ever winter tour downtown with some hearty souls who originally hail from Ethiopia and Eritrea. One plans to pursue monasticism in Texas, so it explains a bit why he is so hearty as to have a walking tour in frigid January.

Anyway, Happy New Year from Boston Pilgrim Tours!

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Celebrating the Feast Day

21 Saturday May 2016

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John Eliot

May 21, 2016
236th anniversary of the repose of John Eliot
May 21, 1690

Great to be downtown today giving the first tour of the new season with a great mix of folks from as far away as Texas and as nearby as Worcester, MA. Gave them the John Eliot tour in honor of his Feast Day today.

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Faith of My Fathers

29 Monday Feb 2016

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So pleased to remember at the end of this month the conclusion of my own parents’ celebration of 50 years of marriage. As part of this year-long celebration, I took them on our Faith-based Freedom Trail tour last fall (see pictures below). Many years to them and to all parents who are embedding faith in the next generation of citizens for this great Land of the Free!

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Downtown With John Eliot

24 Friday Jul 2015

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John Eliot, Song on the Wind

Great weather and lots of interest in John Eliot brought the girls and I downtown for a tour with a group that consisted of actors from Song on the Wind, an original musical about the life of John Eliot. A good time was had by all as we testified to Boston’s almost 400 year old heritage and helped many passers-by overcome modern New England’s faith-a-phobia.

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Happy Birthday, Boston Pilgrim

30 Tuesday Jun 2015

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Boston

June 13/30, Feast of St. Botolph (Old Style)
Abbot and Confessor, of Ikanhoe, England (+680)
Patron saint of all Travelers,
Boston, England (founded 654)
Boston, Massachusetts (founded 1630)
and Patron of Botolph’s Town Tours (founded 2013)

Only two years ago today did we begin this effort that has become (to my knowledge) Boston’s ONLY faith-based tour company. And now two years later, we are still offering the kinds of tours that people of faith look for when they come to a historic city like our fair Boston. So book a tour today! You won’t be sorry that you did.

And watch this summer for the unveiling of our new living history tour. Last summer, John Eliot in the seventeenth century. This summer… someone from the eighteenth century who was famous for preaching on the Boston Common long before Billy Graham ever thought of it. Who could it be?

All-Weather Tours

28 Saturday Mar 2015

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Granary Burying Ground

Gave my first tour of the 2015-2016 season today in not so favorable conditions. Proof positive that hearty American families still exist who are willing to brave the elements to learn the story of our religious liberty and freedom. Snapped this picture at a graveyard not often visited on our tours, but heavily frequented by the actors portraying the time of the American Revolution, the Granary Burying Ground.

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