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A Boston Harbor Islands Adventure: The Great Brewster Journal of 1891
Needham History Center & Museum 1147 Central Ave., Needham, MA, United StatesA talk by author Stephanie Schorow. In 1891, four intrepid women from Lowell sailed to a remote island in Boston Harbor for a 17-day escape from New England’s prim and proper society. Calling themselves the Scribe, the Aristocrat, the Acrobat, and the Autocrat, the women rusticated in a cottage on Great Brewster Island, reveling in […]
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A History of Boston
Needham History Center & Museum 1147 Central Ave., Needham, MA, United StatesA talk by author Daniel Dain. February 4 at 2:00 pm at the Needham History Center. Boston is today one of the world’s greatest cities, first in higher education, hospitals, life science companies, and sports teams. It was the home of the Great Puritan Migration, the American Revolution, the Industrial Revolution, the first civil rights […]
Author Talk by Andrew Noone • Bathsheba Spooner: A Revolutionary Murder Conspiracy
Center at the Heights 300 Hillside Avenue, Needham Heights, MA, United StatesNoone's book details the most sensational crime of the Revolution. The title character, when five months pregnant, was hanged (despite protests to Boston) alongside her three British and American accomplices. Spooner, John Adams’ second cousin, was the first woman executed in the new U.S., the instigator behind the nation’s premier capital case. Cost: Free To […]