Guest Program, Evening Events & Tours

The guest registration fee includes tickets to the Opening Reception on Wednesday and the Final Banquet on Friday, as well as access to the Exhibit Hall and admittance to the Guest Hospitality Suite, which includes breakfast. (No children under 18 years old will be allowed in the Exhibit Hall.)

Other optional tours and activities available normally require that tickets be purchased months in advance with no guarantee on availability. Only through the Meningioma Conference are you able to guarantee participation to the following combination of sites.

Tour Registration will open in April 2008.

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Thursday, September 4

Baseball and Art: Fenway Park and The Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum

9:00 AM – 1:00 PM
$73 USD per person

What does art have to do with baseball? In Boston there is an interesting connection. Isabella Stewart Gardner, a Boston socialite, opened a magnificent Venetian home as a museum in 1903. She welcomed visitors to her home with live performances of Bach, Mozart, and Schumann. Here you can gaze in wonder at the courtyard full of flowers, and viewed one of the nation's finest collections of art. Three floors of galleries surround a garden courtyard blooming with life in all seasons. The galleries are filled with paintings, sculpture, tapestries, furniture, and decorative arts from cultures spanning thirty centuries. Mrs. “Jack” as she was often called was not only a lover of art was also an avid Red Sox fan. This tour will then go to Fenway Park, America’s most beloved baseball park. You can visit the park where the Babe pitched, The Kid hit, Yaz dazzled and Manny and Ortiz still thrill young fans today! Soak up the rich history and hear the echoes of the past. Touch the Green Monster, imagine being one of the "Knights of the Keyboard" as you see the view from the Press Box. This is a tour not to be missed!

Listen My Children and You Shall Hear of the Midnight Ride of Paul Revere

10:00 AM – 1:30 PM
$65 USD per person

Travel back in time and put yourself in Paul Revere’s shoes during the Revolutionary Era. On the night of April 18, 1775, silversmith Paul Revere left his small wooden home in Boston's North End and set out on a journey that would make him into a legend. Revere’s home is downtown Boston's oldest building and one of the few remaining from an early era in the history of colonial America. The restored dwelling, with its third story front extension removed, resembles its late seventeenth century appearance. Ninety percent of the structure, two doors, three window frames, and portions of the flooring, foundation, inner wall material and raftering, are original. Upstairs you will find two chambers containing period furnishings belonging to the Revere family. The year 2008 marks the 100 th anniversary of this museum and your group may experience special exhibits celebrating their centennial!

The tour will continue through the Pierce/Hitchborn House, built about 1711, and one of the earliest remaining brick structures in Boston. The house is an excellent example of early Georgian architecture. The home was built for Moses Pierce, a glazier, and was later owned by Nathaniel Hichborn, a boat builder and a cousin of Paul Revere.

Next meet Paul Revere inside the Old North Church and learn more about his life and times. Actor David Conner as Paul Revere will recount Revere's life in pre-revolutionary and revolutionary Boston. He describes Revere's youth in the North End, his first affiliation with the Old North as a teenage bell ringer, and sets the record straight concerning his midnight ride.

Built in 1723, Old North Church is Boston's oldest church building. Two warning lanterns hung in the church steeple on April 15, 1775. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow's poem, The Midnight Ride of Paul Revere, published during the Civil War, made both Revere and Old North Church internationally known icons of freedom.