Register for our live show and podcast wrap party: http://HUBhistory.com/LIVE/
If you've been listening to the last few episodes, you know that I've been promoting our first ever live show, our first ever live taping of Hub History coming up on November 13th, meant to celebrate 10 years of the podcast. The big news to share is that this live show is not only meant to mark a decade of Hub History, It's also going to be our podcast wrap party. After 10 years of making Hub History, I'm planning to wind down the show this fall. This is a bittersweet moment for me. This is the first time I've said this out loud, but I've been thinking about it for a long time. This podcast is probably the most meaningful thing I'll do. Certainly the biggest contribution i think i'll make to boston culture to the study of history.
But at the same time i have been doing this for 10 years i'm looking forward to getting my nights and weekends back this is basically the only thing i do when i'm not working, i'm not going to take the podcast feed down at least not anytime soon so if you enjoy the podcast you're going to be able to keep enjoying the back catalog and if I want to there's no reason I can't post a show down the road sometime, when I learn something new and exciting and I want to share it but, winding down the podcast is a way for me to free myself from the tyranny of my release schedule.
So for this last episode, let's get together. Let's make it a party. On Friday the 13th, which now that I say it out loud, maybe it's not the most auspicious day, but Friday the 13th of November, let's meet up at Old North Church on Salem Street in the North End. We're going to open the doors at 530.
At six o'clock, I'm going to interview Laurie Rogers Stokes and Jonathan Chu. Laurie's a scholar of the Puritans and the later Congregational Church in New England, and she's the author of books about, the religious identity and experiences of Puritan women and the relationship of indigenous New England nations with these congregational churches that were suddenly inserted into their world. Jonathan is Professor Emeritus of History at UMass Boston, and he's also the author of a book that examines how Puritans learned to adjust to the Quakers who invaded their insular New England world. So lots of religious adjustments happening.
Way back in November of 2016, our very first episode discussed Pope's Night. Pope's Night was the bizarre holiday in early Boston where parades, bonfires, and drunken street fights commemorated a thwarted plot against the British Parliament. So every year, the virulently anti-Catholic Boston population would get together and drunkenly burn the Pope in effigy, which made it pretty clear who was and was not welcome in colonial Boston.
So we open the podcast with that story. We're going to close it by recapping a little bit about Pope's Night and then contrasting Boston then and now. Jonathan and Lori are going to help us understand how those Puritans of early Boston who created that, religiously intolerant culture also helped to establish the culture of Boston that we know today, the culture of modern Boston, and how, changes in religion and government and culture transformed the most conservative British North American colony, into the most progressive modern American state.
We're going to serve some light refreshments in the Old North gift shop at the end of the recording, so there'll be a chance to meet and chat with anybody who wants to stick around at the end of the event. The live show is going to be free, but I am asking everybody to please register so we know how many people to expect, and because I'm buying refreshments, so I know what kind of refreshments to get. You can find all the details you need for our live show and podcast wrap party, including the Eventbrite registration link at http://hubhistory.com/live
