| June 8, 2009 Summer sights and sounds of Faneuil Hall Marketplace
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(NECN: Greg Wayland, Boston, Mass.) - The pitch and beat of the city on a Sunny June day. Bostonians don't have to go far to get in tune with it. For those summer travelers in search of a little serendipity, NECN's Greg Wayland offers this two-minute guided tour.
In Boston, there's one tunnel that's toll free. I know where it is.
As dark passages go, this one goes to Shangri-la -- to a mellow Monday on a June day when that downtown crowd magnet called Faneuil hall market place is swarming with guests to old Boston.
Where the melodies on Herman Johnson’s soprano sax run together like watercolors in Sam Adams park.
And a family of double-jointed Brits run through their bone-bending catalogue of high-flying tricks for laughs, thrills and a little cash in front of the old market building.
They always draw a crowd especially when they hop on the unicycle and start juggling.
Fifty yards away Herman is happy just running through his repertoire and letting his notes bounce off the city walls.
Herman says, “It gets cold in the winter. The horn freezes. I be still out here. Twenty-eight degrees is as far as I take it. Sometimes in the rain. How long you been playing?
Hermans says he has been playing since he was eleven. “When I was eleven, I said a prayer -- They said they were going to pick five people to be musicians. I said, God, pick me, I'll play love music and make people happy. So I been doing' it ever since.
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