Local author Martha Lufkin will perform her original, one-act comedy, “Marriage is Taxing,” during a fun-filled evening at Old South Meeting House. This comedy takes its inspiration from the documented rush to marry in the weeks before the infamous Stamp Act took effect in 1765 – to avoid the impending tax on marriage certificates. What […]
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