Lecture Series: Wit & Wisdom-19th Century New England Humor with Jo Radner
Lecture Series: Wit & Wisdom-19th Century New England Humor with Jo Radner
Presented by Jo Radner. Whatever did New Englanders do on long winter evenings before cable, satellite and the internet? In the decades before and after the Civil War, our rural ancestors used to create neighborhood events to improve their minds. Community members male and female would compose and read aloud homegrown, handwritten literary "newspapers" full […]