Founded in 1807, the Boston Athenaeum is one of the nation's oldest independent libraries and has been a gathering place for readers, writers and scholars for more than two centuries. Famous visitors include Louisa May Alcott, John Adams, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne even claims he saw Rev. Dr. Thaddeus Mason Harris in the reading room, only to later learn he had died that same day, inspiring his short story, “The Ghost of Doctor Harris.” WBZ’s Jacob Wycoff visited the Athenaeum to learn m
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Founded in 1807, the Boston Athenaeum is one of the nation's oldest independent libraries and has been a gathering place for readers, writers and scholars for more than two centuries. Famous visitors include Louisa May Alcott, John Adams, and Nathaniel Hawthorne. Hawthorne even claims he saw Rev. Dr. Thaddeus Mason Harris in the reading room, only to later learn he had died that same day, inspiring his short story, “The Ghost of Doctor Harris.” WBZ’s Jacob Wycoff visited the Athenaeum to learn m
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