The Thin Red Line

by Greg Lohman and Graham Wright
Answer: HISTORIAN

The photos are all taken on the Freedom Trail, a trail through Boston marked with a red line. The photos can be placed in that order starting in the southwest. Each photo shows three letters of a path on another red line, the MBTA's Red Line train. Taking the letter after the three-letter block for each stop in Freedom Trail order spells LIVY OR HERODOTUS, E.G. This clues the answer HISTORIAN.

Freedom Trail Site	Trigram	Red Line Stop	Next Letter
Boston Common	NHI	Savin Hill	L
State House	DAV	Davis	I
Park Street Church	GRO	Cedar Grove	V
Granary Burying Ground	DWA	Broadway	Y
King's Chapel	SHM	Ashmont	O
King's Chapel Burying Ground	KST	Park Street	R
First Public School Site/Ben Franklin Statue	OUT	South Station	H
Old Corner Bookstore	WIF	Alewife	E
Old South Meeting House	INT	Braintree	R
Old State House	WNT	Downtown Crossing	O
Site of the Boston Massacre	VAR	Harvard Square	D
Faneuil Hall	DSC	Fields Corner	O
Paul Revere House	WMU	Shawmut	T
Old North Church	JFK	JFK/UMass	U
Copp's Hill Burying Ground	DAM	Quincy Adams	S
USS Constitution	NDR	Andrew	E
Bunker Hill Monument	ESM	Charles/MGH	G