May 23, 2006
The Freedom Trail – Not So Free?
We're not talking about any newly imposed fees, we don't know of any. On a recent trip to the Navy Yard we followed the red brick trail out of the National Park Service site only to come up against a blockade. Because we don't make a habit of following the Freedom Trail through Boston (really, how many times can you do it?) we were surprised to find that Gate 1 of Charleston Navy Yard was closed. Not only closed but closed off using Jersey barriers. We present this ironic image of how the Freedom Trail has been cut off by the likes of Homeland Security.
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very 'sin city' use of color...
Is there construction going on in this area?
no construction apparent - what it looks like is that they've just closed gate 1, more or less for good. The've got a security checkpoint complete with guard who checks cars underbellies with a mirror at the other gate. I am only speculating but it seems to be merely a security measure.
The barriers have been in place after 9/11, you used to be able to roam the Navy Yard pretty free at night, there were many a night that I stumbled home from the Tavern on the Water passing by Old Ironside's...
What bothers me more is that the last time I was there, signs warned that you could get years in jail for carrying a knife with a 3-inch blade into the Old Ironsides area. Since I had my Swiss Army Knife on me, I decided to skip that part of the Freedom Trail rather than spend the next couple of years in a Freedom Jail.
3 inch blade! They'll max you out at 2.5 these days...but truthfully, 3 inches seems awful long for a swiss army knife.