Events for August 2, 2016
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2:00 pm
Literary Beacon Hill: the 20th Century
After the likes of Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ralph Waldo Emerson, and Louisa May Alcott in the 19th century, another literary scene evolved on Beacon Hill in the 20th century. But, how did it compare to the Victorian "flowering of New England"? Come explore a sampling of what some later writers with Beacon Hill connections brought to […]
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Brews, Books and Bingo at Trident
Love bingo? Stop by and join in the fun at Trident Booksellers every Tuesday night July 19th through August 30th. The Newbury Street bookseller will be giving away some favorite reads, fun summer goodies, and Trident swag. They will also provide some delicious drink specials to get the party started. First come, first served!
Find out more »Boston’s South End at the Provincetown Library
The Provincetown Library is pleased to welcome Russ Lopez, author of Boston’s South End: The Clash of Ideas in a Historic Neighborhood (Shawmut Peninsula Press, October 2015). Few remember how those million-dollar brownstones once housed tenacious landladies and their low-income tenants and how those hip restaurants were once home to overcrowded lodging houses. The first history […]
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The Battle of the Soul of Marriage
Harvard Book Store welcomes historian CINDY SAFRONOFF for a discussion of her book Crossing Swords: Mary Baker Eddy vs. Victoria Claflin Woodhull and the Battle for the Soul of Marriage. "Crossing Swords tells the intertwined tales of Victoria Woodhull and Mary Baker Eddy two fearless American iconoclasts whose work on sex, love, and women s rights changed […]
Find out more »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.