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Eugene O’Neill –Banned in Boston, 1929

October 26, 2018 | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02108 United States
$6

Born October 16, 1888 in New York, renowned American playwright Eugene O’Neill made Boston history when his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Strange Interlude, was barred from production here. Neil Miller, author of Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society’s Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil, tells the story of how the city canceled […]

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Middays at the Meeting House, Eugene O’Neill –Banned in Boston, 1929

October 26, 2018 | 1:00 pm - 2:00 pm
Old South Meeting House, 310 Washington Street
Boston, MA 02108 United States

Born October 16, 1888 in New York, renowned American playwright Eugene O’Neill made Boston history when his Pulitzer Prize-winning play, Strange Interlude, was barred from production here. Neil Miller, author of Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society’s Crusade against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil, tells the story of how the city canceled […]

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Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.