Date: 2016-01-21
Boston and the Civil War
7:00pm–Guest Speaker: Barbara F. Berenson, Senior Attorney, Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court.Barbara F. Berenson discusses her latest book, Boston and the Civil War: Hub of the Second Revolution. The book explains how Boston, for the second time, changed the fate of the nation. Inspired by their Patriot forefathers and nurtured in the nation’s “cradle of liberty,” Boston’s abolitionists sparked a Second American Revolution — this one intended to force the nation to live up to the promises of liberty and equality contained in the Declaration of Independence. Presented by the Framingham Public Library. LOCATION: Town Hall, Blumer Room.
More Info: http://www.framinghamlibrary.org