Events for February 8, 2018 › Book Talk
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12:00 pm
ROSALYN D. ELDER on African American Heritage in Massachusetts
Join us at the State Library of Massachusetts at noon on Thursday, February 8, to hear author Rosalyn D. Elder speak about her recent book Exploring the Legacy: People and Places of Significance, part of the African American Heritage in Massachusetts series. Exploring the Legacy is both a tourist guide and a history book, providing details about […]
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DAVID DONOVAN on Henry Beston’s “The Outermost House”
The Friends of the Charlestown Branch of the BPL is pleased to host a presentation by DAVID DONOVAN on Henry Beston’s The Outermost House. This event is free and open to all, with a reception following. Published in 1928, Henry Beston’s The Outermost House, was written after Beston spent a long stretch of solitude in a 20’x16’ house located on […]
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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.