Limited seating please sign-up early We have Stephanie Schorow joining us to discuss the Great Boston Fire of 1873. Stephanie Schorow is a journalist, writing instructor, college professor, and the author of eight nonfiction books on a variety of topics in Boston history. They include: The Great Boston Fire: The Inferno that Nearly Incinerated the City (Globe Pequot); Inside the Combat Zone: The Stripped Down Story of Boston’s Most Notorious Neighborhood (Union Park Press); and Drinking Boston: A History of the City and its Spirits (Union Park Press), and, with Beverly Ford, The Boston Mob Guide: Hitmen, Hoodlum and Hideouts. In the fall, she will publish an updated version of her 2005 book The Cocoanut Grove Fire: A Boston Tragedy. Her novel Cat Dreaming will be published in 2023 by Small Town Girl Press. She currently coordinates a Citizen Journalism Program for Malden’s Urban Media Arts, teaches professional writing and editing at Lasell University in Newton, Mass., and serves as a communication writer for Ariadne Labs in Boston. She has worked as an editor, reporter and/or freelance correspondent for the Boston Herald, the Associated Press, the Boston Globe, and other newspapers. All that attend this meeting will receive an autographed copy of The Great Boston Fire.
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