To the wonderful children parents Concord Massachusetts who make to my beautiful caring friends there To my husband Greg and my children
parents teachers and librarians of make the town so great and especially there I love you all near or far MTR children Gregory Sophie and Lee Tsairis JB
The Algonquian language spoken by the Massachuset tribe of Native Americans gave our state its name which means large hill place The name refers to Great Blue Hill the tallest rising 635 feet of the 22 hill Blue Hills chain found near Boston Residents of Massachusetts were also officially designated Bay Staters on December 18 1990 This name comes from the Pilgrims first settlement on Cape Cod Bay Massachusetts is a small state the 45th largest in the United States but it has a widely varied topography Its land ranges from rocky beaches along its coast to fertile valleys and rivers in its central sections to the Berkshire Hills mountain range in the western half of the state Mt Greylock in the Berkshires rises 3 491 feet making it the state's highest spot
Our beginning letter I starts this book a special way for A stands for Algonquin AL GONE QWIN the native language of the tribe that gave our state the name which fills us all with pride Massachusetts
