Wed Oct 21 · 7pm
The L-Word, Watertown Edition
Historian Robin Bernstein gives a fast-paced slide show on Watertown’s lesbian history, telling stories of love affairs, rivalries, mischief, betrayals, breakups and friendships. Its central figure is Harriet Hosmer, a sculptor, tomboy and lover of women who grew up in Watertown and whose name is on a town elementary school. Bernstein, a professor of American history at Harvard, is the author of Racial Innocence and Freeman’s Challenge.