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Old South Church welcomed slaves as members, and it had more black members — free and slave — than any other Boston church in the colonial era. Although, Taylor notes, blacks were required to ...
BOSTON — The Old South Church has only had 20 ministers in its rich, 354-year history.. The Rev. John Marlow Edgerton was recently called to become the 21st. According to Old South Church ...
The Old South Church hit a major milestone this week that not many organizations can say they’ve reached: 350 years of existence. “Our church has lived through slavery, wars, epidemics ...
The Old South Church lived up to its name on Sunday, celebrating the 350th anniversary of the historic site in Copley Square. The day kicked off with “heraldic fanfare,” a concert of trumpets that ...
On its 350th Birthday, 10 Things You Didn’t Know about Boston’s Old South Church. ... the 2003 Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court ruling that ended the ban.
BOSTON – A Massachusetts man has pleaded guilty to using another person's identity to sell a 17th century diary stolen from Boston's Old South Church. Michael Ford pleaded guilty Tuesday in ...
Old South Church in Copley Square, with support from a coalition of interfaith leaders and congregations from across Greater Boston, plans to open two of its rooms on Monday as a temporary daytime ...
BOSTON (CBS) - The Old South Church of Boston held a peaceful and quiet vigil for the victims of the massacre in Newtown, Conn. Folk sang, prayed and mourned for those who lost their lives. "In ...
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Boston’s Old South Church is the latest aggrieved party in a simmering battle for sunshine amid a downtown building boom. The 142-year-old church is two blocks away from a planned tower at Back Bay ...
SHE came and stood in the Old South Church, A wonder and a sign, With the look the old-time sibyls wore, Half crazed and half divine. Save the mournful sackcloth about her wound, Unclothed as the ...