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Heres everything you cant miss when visiting Boston this Autumn.
Boston Fashion Week
This week-long event was founded in 1995 and has remained a non-profit since inception. It brings together both international and local talent, helping them showcase their work to buyers, the public, celebrities and fashion aficionados. Boston Fashion Week continues to be aimed at helping local designers shine on a bigger platform. The public can buy tickets online although some shows and events are through invitation only. Within the Boston Fashion Week is an event called The Tent which aims to showcase local talent grow their business.
Boston Book festival
Taking place towards the end of October, this nonprofit event hopes to celebrate authors from different genres and encourage people to read more. This years author lineup includes Pulitzer prize winner Maureen Dowd along with Dennis Lehane, Tom Perrotta, Jacqueline Woodson, E. Lockhart, M.T. Anderson and Dani Shapiro, to name just a few. There is usually a live music stage and lots of free activities that visitors to the festival can take part in. Check out the writing workshops, open mic gatherings and encourage your children to also take part in activities aimed specifically at them.
Boston Common
Boston is known to have some of the best views in the entire country during fall. Some great places to walk through to get a glimpse of the leaves changing color include the Arnold Arboretum, Jamaica Pond or Mount Auburn Cemetery.
Another fantastic place from which to see the riot of colors is Boston Common. This is a great location from which to observe the changing colors of trees. This 50-acre park is not only massive, but also happens to be the oldest city park in the United States.
Head to the common to see several concerts, softball games, ice skating events, protests and more that take place here each year. Martin Luther King Jr. once gave a speech here and the common was declared a national historic landmark in 1987. The common lies toward the southern end of the famous Boston Freedom Trail. Elms can be easily spotted in the Common, including the two most famous elms at the entrance to the common called the Shaw Memorial Elms.
Pumpkin Picking
If you happen to visit Boston just in time for Halloween, why not head to a local farm and go Pumpkin picking. This is a particularly good idea for anyone with children. Once youve picked your pumpkin, try your hand at carving them too. If you enjoy pumpkins in this season, then the Boston Common Frog pond is filled with glowing Pumpkin lanterns for one night every Halloween and is worth checking out.
Charles Regatta
To see the best in the world of rowing, this is the event to go to. Some of the worlds best rowing teams compete in this competition held annually on the Charles River. The best view can be found in the races halfway point. Since the competition runs the entire day, if you want to try something different, why not go to the nearby Weld exhibition which sells Regatta merchandise. Best Places To Watch The Head Of The Charles Regatta. There's a good reason the BU, River Street, Western Avenue, Weeks Footbridge, Larz Anderson and Eliot bridges are going to be mobbed with spectators.The course is 3 miles (4,800 meters) long and stretches from the start at Boston University's DeWolfe Boathouse near the Charles River Basin to the finish just after the Eliot Bridge and before Northeastern University's Henderson Boathouse.
