🎟 Free to attend. HUB History launched in November 2016, by introducing listeners to Pope’s Night, a bizarre holiday celebrated in early Boston. Having evolved out of the British observation of Guy Fawkes Day, Boston took the event to extremes. The virulently anti-Catholic colonists in our town held festive bonfires, parades, and plenty of drinking. Almost every year, the celebration would lead to massive street fights and riots that sometimes turned deadly, all to commemorate a thwarted plot against the British Parliament. The riots of Pope’s Night are a far cry from the Boston that we li…
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