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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 8368738" data-attributes="member: 177">When not in covid-times, you mean?  Heck yeah!I'm not a sports fan, but.. come on - we have the New England Patriots, the Red Sox, the Celtics, and the Bruins.  Darned tootin' a lot of folks take advantage of the sports scene around here.My wife and I are fans of live theater, especially musical theater.  Most years we are downtown several times to catch Broadway shows coming through, or concerts in some of the smaller venues.  We also have the American Reparatory Theater, which does a lot of experimental stuff, and initial runs of things that will eventually go to Broadway.  Except for pandemic times, we are on Boston Commons every year to watch Shakespeare.We regularly have memberships to Zoo New England, and make occasional trips to the Aquarium, the Museum of Science when they have a cool exhibit or movie showing.  We went with friends to the Museum of Fine Arts a little while before Covid hit, and the Isabella Gardner Museum has cool aspects of both art museum and garden.This past year we took advantage of several properties managed by The Trustees (of Reservations) - they manage and maintain many public garden areas in Massachusetts, which we used for pretty places to go for open-air walks distanced from others during the pandemic.  There's also the Boston Public Gardens we go walking in fairly often.  We go to the Arnold Arboretum a couple times a year - the lilac collection they have is amazing around Mother's Day.  I could smell them a quarter mile away through my mask this year.</blockquote>

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