Sunday
10/23
2011
2:00 pm
Neil Miller “Banned In Boston”
American Textile History Museum Lowell Community Health Center Lowell National Historical Park Visitor Center Saint Patrick's Church
The author of “Banned in Boston: The Watch and Ward Society’s Crusade Against Books, Burlesque, and the Social Evil” will talk about the group that banned books, closed down theaters and burlesque houses, and extended Massachusetts’s puritan heritage into the 1940’s and 50’s.