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Rebecca Kaiser Gibson Reads from Opinel: Poems

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The Bureau of Refugees, Freedmen and Abandoned Lands: Securing Freedom During and After the Civil War

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Boston’s Market District and Haymarket: Yesterday and Today

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Grub Gone… Drag

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Crossing Over: A Poetry Workshop

AGNI Magazine Spring Issue Readings and Launch Party

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59th Annual New England Book Show

Mission Hill Book Launch

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Author’s Night

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CONSEQUENCE MAGAZINE – CROSSING BORDERS: THE WRITER AND THE ARTIST / ISRAEL AND PALESTINE

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Poe’s Boston: A Walking Tour

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Paul Lewis, editor of “The Citizen Poets of Boston: A Collection of Forgotten Poems, 1789–1820”

Creative Conversations: Active Ideas Art Talk

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A History of Boston in 50 Artifacts

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GrubStreet Summer Open House

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A Special Reading by Boston Poet Laureate Danielle Legros Georges

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Bee Keeping Panel with Joseph Wilson and Olivia Messinger Carril, authors of “The Bees in Your Backyard: A Guide to North America’s Bees,” and Thomas Seeley, author of “Following the Wild Bees: The Craft and Science of Bee Hunting”

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History Matters series – Puritan, Entrepreneur…Heretic?

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Marriage, Taxes, and a Dose of Rebellion – Dinner & A Show at the Meeting House!

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Writing the Senses: Introduction to Food Writing

Carla Schwartz performs poetry with video and photography from her Blog, wakewiththesun.blogspot.com

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An Evening with Sam Cornish, former Poet Laureate of Boston

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Boston’s Creation of Self: A Walking Tour

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Boston Book Festival Presents Hubbub

Construct Your Self, Write Your Story: Mask Making Workshop for Kids

Brown Box Theatre Project’s BRILLIANT TRACES

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Brown Box Theatre Project’s BRILLIANT TRACES

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Did You Know?

Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.