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Well, add this one to your list: historic eats! Established in 1868 and located at its current site since 1878, the Jacob Wirth Restaurant on Stuart Street is the second-oldest restaurant in the city (after the Union Oyster House). Jacob Wirth opened his restaurant shortly after immigrating from Prussia, and his establishment quickly became popular for its bar, featuring a number of Wirth's own brews. The restaurant menu featured German dishes and 19th-century dietary staples, including sausages, bacon, ham, cheeses, herring, and pig's knuckles. Mmmm ... pig's knuckles.

The path for the motorcade escorting Senator Kennedy’s body was recently announced. Starting in Hyannisport, it will proceed north into Boston and drive past places significant in the senator’s and his family’s life: past St. Stephen’s Church and the Rose Kennedy Greenway in the North End, over to the State House, and to then President Kennedy’s former residence on Bowdoin Street and the JFK Federal Building, ultimately arriving at the JFK Library and Museum in Dorchester.

photo of the Longfellow House, tagged "Bostonist" by Flickr user AntyDiluvian

photo tagged "Bostonist" by flickr user discoverroxbury

Bostonist loves when it when booze and history are combined. We’ve been known to spend afternoons watching Drunk History videos on YouTube and to sweep the history category at trivia night. But if you told us two years ago that we’d be able to knock back a few drinks in a formerly infamous and historically significant jail … well, we’d think that maybe you’d had a few too many yourself.

We don’t need to tell you that the tall ships are here. Bostonist readers have been tagging lots of great photos of the ships on Flickr, and we’re planning on heading to the waterfront later on today to check them out for ourselves. There are lots of reasons to go see the tall ships. Maybe you’re a history nut. Maybe you’re looking for an excuse to talk like an old-time sailor. Maybe you just like all things wind-powered. Maybe you’re looking for a new backdrop for your Facebook profile picture. Or maybe you’re just looking for something free to do this weekend. Whatever your reason, go. The tall ships are just plain cool.

Got your foam hats, flag shirts, and star-shaped glasses ready for the festivities tomorrow? No? Neither do we. Bostonist will be staying far, far away from the Esplanade tomorrow. We’ll watch the fireworks, for sure - but we’ll pass on the crowds gathering to watch the Pops. Sorry, Neil Diamond.

Bostonist was recently flying back to Boston on a plane full of British teenagers, who were coming to Massachusetts to work at a summer camp in the western part of the state. Most of them had never been to the U.S. before, and they were all marveling at the same thing: the gigantic sodas they bought at the airport’s Burger King and the concept of free refills. They were nothing short of amazed.

It’s starting. They’re coming. Tourists. Everywhere. Sporting duck whistles and fanny packs, they’re infiltrating the city as you’re reading this post. And with July 4th inching closer … and closer … more will come. You cannot escape them.

You remember watching “Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory” when you were a kid. You were totally jealous of Charlie - because, really, who wouldn’t want to live in a chocolate factory? It’s a pretty sweet deal (sorry, couldn’t resist that one…).

If you’re looking for a fun, relaxing way to spend an afternoon, chances are you’re not going to head for a cemetery. In fact, a cemetery is probably one of the last places you’d think of because, well, the reasons we generally go to cemeteries are not often happy ones. Unles you’re one of the thousands of people who go to Pere Lachaise Cemetery in Paris to shower Oscar Wilde’s grave marker with kisses or to do, um, questionable things at Jim Morrison’s grave. But let’s face it: Boston cemeteries just don’t provide that same allure. Who needs to rub up on Sam Adams like that?