Innovation Trail Walking Tour (Special Boston Harborfest Edition)

It's Harborfest Week in Boston!

On this special afternoon tour, we'll focus on some of the scientific, technological, and social revolutions that started in Boston after the Revolutionary War ended.

And since 2026 is the 150th anniversary of the invention of the telephone in Boston, by Alexander Graham Bell, we'll take you to some of the locations tied to the earliest days of telecommunications... and you'll hear directly from Thomas Watson, Bell's assistant, and his wife Mabel. (Via the award winning actor Lori Glaser.)

We'll also talk about Thomas Edison's first failure; the grade school dropout who became one of America's most famous inventors; the woman who may have invented the Ponzi scheme; and why we wouldn't have had the Wizard of Oz without a Boston startup company founded in a railroad car.

All tickets for this tour are donate-what-you-wish! (Typical tour pricing is $20/adult, $10/student.) But if you donate $40 or more, you'll get a limited edition embroidered Innovation Trail hat. (See below for photo.) The Innovation Trail is a 501(c)3 nonprofit, with a mission to create new kinds of STEM learning experiences for people of all ages.

We start at the Irish Famine Memorial, at 24 School Street, close to the State Street, Downtown Crossing, and Park Street stations on the T, and right in front of the Old South Meeting House.

For more on The Innovation Trail, visit https://theinnovationtrail.org/

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