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3 unusual facts about Howard Athenaeum


Francis W. Hatch, Jr.

He was best known for the songs "Some Coward Closed the Old Howard," a humorous paean to Boston's famous vaudeville house The Old Howard, and "Vote Early and Often for Curley," a reelection campaign song for Boston Mayor James Michael Curley.

Howard Athenaeum

Sarah Parker Remond, a medical doctor, anti-slavery activist and lecturer with the American Anti-Slavery Society, had bought a ticket through the mail for the Donizetti opera, Don Pasquale, but, upon arriving, refused to sit in a segregated section for the show.

A program for the Ernani performance at the Howard is owned by the Boston Athenæum, which has a very small but interesting collection of programs from the Howard's early years dating from 1847 to 1848.



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