I think this tour deserves the 300 plus 5 star ratings it’s already received. Would take a little thinking to list all the things this tour guide gets right. First of all, he’s got a master’s in history. He is very qualified. It was a very creative tour that wove the roles of key personages - Paul Revere, Quincy Adams, Tom Hutchinson, Sons of Liberty, and others - in this period of history into the narration. He really brought the history, and the people, alive, busted some myths but then rebuilt those people and events back up in a more historically accurate manner, with frequent records to the ambiguities left by the historical record. Don’t get the idea that this was dry and boring. It was the best of both worlds: entertaining, engaged, but also grounded in the scholarship. He also gave proper due to chance and dumb good luck, like the Americans perfectly and voluntarily trapping themselves on Bunker Hill, and then the British getting by complete chance bogged down in the mud flats at low tide when trying to cut them off. Replaced the myth of Paul Revere created by Longfellow’s poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride,” which was basically written as Northern propaganda in 1860, with a more nuanced and very suspenseful story of what actually happened - and then we stopped at the church where Paul Revere did put those lanterns up in the Italian north side. Got a feel for the period, the passions at play, the people, the mood of the Bostonians, and the escalation in rhetoric to independence that in large part was accidental and based upon the turn of the English mood from conciliation to harsh over reaction - if the English had been more chill, we might have been a crown colony and still part of the Commonwealth today a la Canada. And how the colonists came to target the British officers, could tell who they were by the quality of their uniforms, the red dye in their uniforms didn’t fade like that of the enlisted men. You get a feel for how the economy, the politics, chance turns of events, personalities of key people and more all interacted to create the particular story of the lead up to the revolutionary war. It was so good - I hope you get to enjoy it. I think it sells out a bit in advance - by the time I booked, I got the last spot available during my Boston visit.