Athens of America: A Play in Two Acts with an Epilogue
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A lesser known moniker for the city Boston is “The Athens of America”, used mainly in literary circles during the first half of the 20th Century. One of the alleged sources is to be found in a letter written in 1764 by Samuel Adams (along with many other suspected sources of imprecise origin.)
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“Just to be in Boston, in Cambridge, on a Monday night was very horrifying to me. It frightens me . . . All the stores closing up by 5 or 6, coffeehouses being open maybe until 11, just the sense that the world shuts down and you're left with yourself.” –Ann Douglas
John Ross Jr.
John Ross, Jr. holds graduate degrees from Boston University and Harvard; and also holds a Graduate degree in Theatre from the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is the author of four previous poetry collections including the popular: Genes, Germs, Geodes and God (2016) along with Where the designer came from: Evolution, Creation, Hominids and the Skirmish of the Double Helix (2011). He teaches communications and theatre at Northeastern Illinois University in Chicago.
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