The Old South Meeting House is pleased to welcome you to a program dedicated to a chapter of Boston's "sweet" history. In 1765, Dr. James Baker of Dorchester was said to have stumbled upon Irishman John Hannon “crying on the banks of the mighty Neponset River." Hannon, though penniless, possessed the rare skills required to […]
Find out more »Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.