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Up Close Tour: Two Presidents and a Ghost at the Boston Athenaeum

July 31, 2019 | 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Boston Athenæum, 10 ½ Beacon Street
Boston, MA United States
$10

Up Close Tours encourage visitors to look closely at materials from the Athenæum’s rich collections and consider them within a particular context. Join Boston Athenæum Docent Maureen Marcucci as she leads a discussion around portraits and lives of Samuel Eliot, Thomas Handasyd Perkins, and Reverend Thaddeus Mason Harris, and their roles as leaders who have impacted the […]

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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.