Moving Companies and moving services Massachusetts, MA

     Massachusetts is one of a very few states whose uncommon traits come to define an entire region. It's impossible to imagine New England without thinking of Massachusetts. Samuel Adams didn't rabble rouse for revolution in Rhode Island, and Robert Frost's poems just wouldn't be the same if they were about Connecticut. Clam chowder? There aren't many clams in Vermont. Massachusetts led America to independence, and even for people who don't have a cabin the Berkshires or a beach timeshare in Cape Cod, the Bay State has a magnetic, timeless appeal.

     One of Massachusetts' first residents, Puritan minister John Winthrop, had a prescient take on the state, labeling his colony as a "city on a hill" that the world would look up to. And despite the occasional witch burning and notoriously high taxes, Massachusetts has lived up to his vision. In the center of Boston, the Old North Church (where Paul Revere got the signal to warn Massachusetts that the British were coming) stands beside towering skyscrapers. The fishing fleet still goes out from Marblehead, and though the Celtics have lost some of their luster, the national Basketball Hall of Fame - monument to a game first played in Massachusetts - stands in Springfield.

     Now that you're moving to Massachusetts, there are some details you might want to keep in mind:

• Massachusetts' state capital is Boston and its population is 6,349,097.
• Basketball wasn't the only sport invented in Massachusetts. Volleyball was first played in Holyoke in 1895 (only at first it was called "Mintonette")
• The system of numbering zip codes begins in Massachusetts too: 01001 is in Agawam.
• The Fig Newton was named after Newton, Massachusetts.
• The official state dessert of Massachusetts is the Boston Cream Pie. It shouldn't be confused with Massachusetts' official cookie - chocolate chip. Massachusetts' official berry is the cranberry and its official beverage is cranberry juice. Massachusetts official muffin in the corn muffin.
• Fitting the "city on a hill" prediction, Massachusetts' name means "in or about the great hill" in language of the Native American tribes that lived around Boston.
• In Massachusetts, state law requires that all citizens take a bath before going to bed. But in Boston, it's illegal to take a bath without a doctor's prescription.