Boston the state's capital is a busy seaport and the largest city in New England Boston got its name in 1632 from the English Puritans who founded the city on the peninsula and made it the capital of the Massachusetts Bay Colony The Puritans called Boston after their hometown in England Because they thought that cooking on Sunday was a sin the Puritans often made baked beans on Saturday to eat as Sunday dinner earning Boston the nick name Beantown Outside Boston is Bunker Hill the site where the first major Revolutionary War battle was fought Springfield is the site of the first game of basketball It was invented by Dr James Naismith a physical education teacher in 1891 using peach baskets for hoops
D's the sound that can be found in Boston town and Bunker Hill and bouncy bouncy Basketball played first in Springfield What a thrill
Used from early days as food and fertil izer the cod is olive gray in color and weighs from ten to twenty pounds Its image has been featured on stamps coins and official seals The Sacred Cod a five foot long wooden fish carved in 1784 hangs in the Massachusetts House of Representatives Chamber It points north when Democrats hold the majority and south when Republicans do so Massachusetts grows more than half of America's cranberry crop Used to make cranberry juice jams and jellies the tart berry grows on the South Shore coast and is native to Plymouth the Islands of Nantucket and Cape Cod Each fall the ripened red berries turn wetland bogs into beautiful pools of brilliant crimson In Massachusetts you will find more than 12 000 acres of cranberry bogs
is for Cod which swim in the sea and Cranberry bogs as red as can be Both are state symbols rich in history
