The Fenway Alliance 13th Annual FREE Opening Our Doors OOD
Lit events:
@Massachusetts Historical Society, 1154 Boylston St. “Letters and Photographs from the Battle Country: Massachusetts Women in the First World War”-10 am to 3pm.
@The Mary Baker Eddy Library, 210 Mass Ave: Historical Literary Re-enactments of 19th Century Boston Women Writers, 11 to 12pm; Tea Time w the Alcott’s, 12 to 1 pm; & Children’s Story time, 2:30 to 3pm.
@Northeastern’s Fenway Center, 77 St. Stephen’s St: Spoken Word Poetry, 12 to 12:45; & Listen and Tell Interactive Storytelling led by massmouth, 1 to 1:45 pm & 2pm to 2:45 pm.
OOD’s Kick-Off @10:00 AM on Christian Science Plaza, Mass Ave side w free cupcakes by Oakleaf Cakes.
Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.