Joseph Bagley, the City Archeologist of Boston, highlights a fascinating hodgepodge of history—from ancient fishing grounds to Jazz Age red-light districts—and demonstrates how these objects offer a unique and accessible introduction to Boston’s history and physical culture. Bagley has been the City Archaeologist of Boston since 2011. He has conducted archaeological excavations on hundreds of […]
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.