Events for September 20, 2016
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6:00 pm
Stacy Schiff on The Witches of Salem
The Boston Public Library is pleased to welcome Stacy Schiff, Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Cleopatra, as she unpacks the mystery of the Salem Witch Trials in The Witches: Salem, 1692. The panic began when a minister's daughter began to scream and convulse. It ended less than a year later, but not before 19 men and women had been […]
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All Set for Black, Thanks: A New Look at Mourning
Porter Square Books is please to welcome Miriam Weinstein, author of All Set for Black, Thanks. When Miriam Weinstein's good friend died unexpectedly, and other losses followed close behind, it led to a year of introspection and black outfits. All Set For Black, Thanks ditches the sanctimony to give us the help, and the laughs, that we […]
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Certain books were “banned in Boston” at least as far back as 1651, when one William Pynchon wrote a book criticizing Puritanism.