TOL Takes Boston!

An Insider’s Tour for Pilgrims and Patriots

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BOSTON RIDERS, WRITERS, AND FIGHTERS

Your guide to Tree of Life’s midnight ride to Massachusetts in 2018.

For updates, visit TOL’s Boston Trip webpage: GoodCommaEditing.com/TOLBoston.

What is Good Comma Editing?

• Good Comma Editing supplies professional teams with freelance research, writing, editing, and instruction. (Tours fall under the “instruction” category.)

www.GoodCommaEditing.com

• Since its founding in 2013, Good Comma Editing has written or edited more than 800,000 words for clients across the United States. Clients include schools, elected officials, investment houses, CPA firms, marketing companies, online media, print media, and not-for-profit policy organizations, among others.

research, writing, editing, and instruction

for professional teams

Who Is Behind Good Comma Editing?

• Michael T. Hamilton launched Good Comma in 2013. He went full-time with Good Comma in 2014. He formerly served as the English department chair and taught AP U.S. Government & Politics at Dayton Christian High School in Ohio and taught IB English at Mystic Valley Regional Charter School just north of Boston, Massachusetts.

• Hamilton has been published in The Wall Street Journal,

National Review, World Magazine, Townhall.com, and

many other online and print publications. For most of 2016 and

2017, he edited a policy newspaper read by lawmakers in 50

states and in the District of Columbia. He has given legislative

testimony in two states.

• Hamilton is a founding board member of Forge Leadership

Network. Forge trains, mentors, and connects midwestern

conservative students who are considering public service of

any kind. Within one year of launch, Forge alumni earned paid

positions with Sen. Marco Rubio’s presidential campaign,

Kansas Gov. Sam Brownback’s office, and Rep. Jim

Jordan’s office.

More Importantly….

• Hamilton follows Christ. He holds a biblical worldview. His faith comes from God (Eph. 2:8), is supported by reason (Rom. 1-2), and is intellectually honest (II Cor. 10:5).

• As a graduate of Hillsdale College, husband, father of four, and American citizen, Hamilton recognizes his duty—and others’—to steward for future generations the blessings of liberty affirmed by the Declaration of Independence and United States Constitution.

• Churches, high schools, and liberty groups commission Hamilton for talks, guest lectures, and sermons.

Why Boston?!

• Boston is America’s true founding city. America’s Christian religious, political, and literary heritage was born in Boston.

• Boston and its suburbs (such as Lexington, Concord, Cambridge, Plymouth, and Salem) provide staggering overlap among religious, political, and literary game-changers (e.g., Longfellow’s house was Washington’s headquarters; the “shot heard round the world” was fired in Emerson’s backyard).

• Present-day Christian pilgrims and American patriots must learn the truth in order to speak truth to a fallen world with corrupt governments.

2000s: “These are the times that try men’s souls….” – Thomas Paine, Common Sense, 1776

1800s: Literary Heritage

1700s: Political Heritage

1600s: Religious Heritage

Hamilton writes the following message to TOLstudents and parents:

Dear TOL Students and Parents,

Boston’s combined American heritage—theological, political, and literary—transcends that of any other city in the United States. This heritage belongs to every U.S. citizen and especially to followers of Christ. Our ways of worshiping the biblical God, our systems of governance, and our country’s literary renaissance caught fire all within a few miles of each other. God-fearing patriots have a duty to bear the flame.

America as we know her was born in Boston. So, for all Americans, a trip to Boston is a kind of homecoming. You will know your trip to be successful if, when leaving Boston, you sense you are leaving part of you behind—a sense most people experience when leaving their home for a great journey. You will realize then that although you came to Boston a tourist, you are leaving it a Bostonian, a wiser pilgrim, and a better patriot.

Respectfully yours,Michael T. HamiltonGood Comma Editing, LLC

What Do You DO in Boston?Where Do You GO?What Do You SEE?

More than will fit on this slide! Some of these sites close for the winter … creating opportunities to do things most Boston travelers don’t do!

Boston Public Garden

Boston Common

54th Massachusetts Regiment

Memorial (Civil War)

New State House

Park Street Church

Granary Burial Ground

King’s Chapel

Boston Latin School

Old South Meeting House

Long Wharf

Old State House

Faneuil Hall

Quincy Market

Holocaust Memorial

Union Oyster House

North End

Paul Revere House

Old North Church

Copp’s Hill Burying

Ground

Ferry

U.S.S. Constitution

U.S.S. Cassin Young

Bunker Hill Memorial & Museum

Boston Tea Party

New State House

Top of the Hub

Minuteman National Historic Park

Lexington Green

North Bridge

Old Manse

Alcott House

Concord Museum

Walden Pond

Plymouth Plantation

John Adams Estate

Salem Witch Trials cemetery

The Olde Pepper Candy

Companie

Marblehead Lighthouse

Fort Sewall

1640 Hart House

Boston Public

Library

Longfellow House

Harvard University

Haymarket

Fenway Park …

… and more!

What else do you do in Boston?

EAT WELL

LEARN WELL

PLAY WELL

SLEEP WELL

We max out the time, all day every day.

How do you live while you’re there?

• Boston tours by Good Comma Editing are a moveable feast!

• Meal options abound. Favorite eateries typically include a variety of grab-and-go vendors at the famous Quincy Market, catered offerings from farm-to-table restaurants, catered sack lunches, pizza, fresh seafood, fine dining in the North End (Boston’s “Little Italy”), and the famous Mike’s Pastry.

• Whole Foods, Trader Joe’s, and local grocers provide fresh, high-quality produce.

• Food sensitivities will be accommodated.

• Specific menus at select restaurants are available upon request.

• Several pharmacies line our path or can be reached by diverting just a few steps, should pilgrims need their doctors to call in a prescription during our travels.

• “When you gotta go, you gotta go,” as they say, but where to go is not always obvious. Good Comma Editing builds well-known and less-known bathroom stops into pilgrims’ itineraries.

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Have You Done This Before?

• Yes. Hamilton has led 145 pilgrim-patriots to Boston, and others are lining up!

Tour Size # Travelers Result

Fall of 2018 Planning in progress for 2 schools

Spring of 2018Planning in progress for 1 school and

1 church

January 2018 TREE OF LIFE TAKES BOSTON!

December 2017Planning in progress for 6 pilgrims &

patriots

September 201710 pilgrims & patriots

January 201691 pilgrims & patriots

January 201444 pilgrims & patriots

• That’s not counting innumerable day-trips the

Hamiltons provided friends and family while living

in Boston.

Do You Stop Anywhere Along the Way?

• Great idea! Good Comma supplied 91 Boston travelers with an expert-led tour of the Civil War battlefield at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania in 2016.*

• *Hamiltons love Gettysburg and know it well. They had a family reunion there in 2009 … at Thanksgiving! Plus, obscure relative Owen Hamilton was killed in the battle. He fought for the North. Owen’s cousin-in-law fought for the South.

• An overnight stay in Buffalo, New York and a visit

to the American Falls along the Niagara River is

also a great way to break up the drive!

Image: Ad Meskens

What should I bring?

• A curious mind.

• Clothes (and good walking shoes).

• Souvenir or ice-skating money (optional).

• A 100% customizable, carefully planned INSIDER’S TOUR.

• An all expenses-paid trip (i.e., transportation, lodging, meals, and museum fees).

• The best Boston Freedom Trail bookon the market.

• A Moleskine journal.

• A Good Comma Editing pen (and other swag while supplies lasts, e.g., bags, water bottles, etc.).

• Maps, academic preparatory documents, and instruction (optional).

• Devotional talks by a trip chaplain (optional)

Good Comma brings for each pilgrim-patriot:

“All that is necessary for the triumph of evil is that good men do nothing.”

-- Edmund Burke, Member of British Parliament, 1770, in support of the American colonies

So … how can TOL TAKE BOSTON?

The More, the Merrier! All Costs Included.

10–19 Students,* 2 TOL Chaps

5 days, 4 nights, Jan 8–12

Up to 53 unforgettable Boston sites (even Fenway Park … Go Sox!)

Travel: Plane

$1,775 per student

20-23 Students,* 3 TOL Chaps

5 days, 4 nights, Jan 8–12

Up to 53 unforgettable Boston sites (even Fenway Park … Go Sox!)

Travel: Plane

$1,525 per student

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24–29

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$1,425 per student**

+ Likely Gettysburg Battlefield Tour on way to Boston!

+ Likely Niagara Falls (USA) visit on way home!

30-39 Students, 4 TOL Chaps

7 days, 6 nights, Jan 7–13**

Up to 53 unforgettable Boston sites (even Fenway Park … Go Sox!)

Travel: Luxury charter bus

+ Likely Gettysburg Battlefield Tour on way to Boston!

+ Likely Niagara Falls (USA) visit on way home!

40-42 Students, 5 TOL Chaps

7 days, 6 nights, Jan 7–13**

Up to 53 unforgettable Boston sites (even Fenway Park … Go Sox!)

Travel: Luxury charter bus

$1,340 per student**

*Enrollment subject to airline ticket availability

** If TOL skips

Gettysburg or Niagara,

plan for Jan 8–12.

• Yep, all costs: travel, lodging, meals, and museum fees. These numbers are close estimates based on vendor availability in October 2017. You’re welcome to bring money for souvenirs, ice-skating in Boston Common at night, or slurping oysters!

• Need to request alternate dates? Tell the TOL

main office.

• Ask about devotional

talks from our trip

chaplain.

How do I reserve my spot?1. Indicate your INTEREST and AVAILABILITY at the TOL main office ASAP.

INTEREST: Say, “I’m taking Boston no matter what!”

OR “I’m taking Boston if at least X number of students sign up!”

AVAILABILITY: Would you take this trip if the dates were Jan 8–13 or Jan 9–14?

2. Reserve your spot with a $350 deposit on a first-come, first-serve basis. (Payment is due in full by Christmas break.) First deposit is due to the TOL main office on Wednesday, November 8. Or, pay securely online:

https://www.paypal.me/GoodComma/350.

3. Earn a $25 credit on your NEXT deposit by enrolling by Friday, November 3!

4. Recruit a classmate. Parents are welcome to enroll, too. ☺

For updates, visit TOL’s Boston Trip webpage: GoodCommaEditing.com/TOLBoston.