I was downtown on Washington Street the other day, and it occurred to me as I passed the Old South Meeting House (1729) — site of so many fervid Colonial meetings in the run-up to the Revolution — that in my thirty-two years as a resident in the city I had never “done” the tourist thing. So I paid for a ticket and popped in. I am also trying to convince myself that I can dispense with my big heavy Sony a7RV camera for my photographic purposes, given the capabilities of my current-and-constantly-carried phone (a Google Pixel 9 Pro). “Photographic purposes”, of course, meaning my attempts to capture an alternative depopulated, gloomy, and Gothic reality, rather like the Upside Down but with fewer monsters and more architecture. So this is yet another exercise along those lines. Does anyone else have a sense that the columns behind the pulpit at Old South are out-of-plumb? I think it is a combination of lighting and an error introduced by perspective correction technology in Lightroom or in my phone. It’s rather bothering me. The last two photos are of the spiral staircase (a dubious component of George A. Clough’s 1882 restoration) of the nearby Old State House (1713), where my ticket also afforded entry. It’s a mistake historically of course, but definitely an antique one now.