Poet Billy Collins will speak at the First Parish in Bedford on Thursday, October 19, 7:30 P.M. at 75 The Great Road on the Bedford Town Common. Tickets are $16 and include a copy of the new paperback edition of The Rain in Portugal. Go to: https://billycollins-fpbedford.eventbrite.com. For more information, 781-275-7994 or uubedford.org.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.