Tue Oct 13
The Tobacco Takers: Puritans, Pipes, and Bodily Care
Peabody Museum curator Diana DiPaolo Loren draws on her new book to reexamine tobacco use in Puritan New England, using clay pipes from 17th-century Massachusetts sites as evidence of tobacco as a tool of bodily care despite religious condemnation. Archaeologist Stephen W. Silliman joins the conversation. Offered in person and online.