March 31, 2020 An Anthem for Five Dollars: Julia Ward Howe’s Battle Hymn and the Old Corner Bookstore
Ticknor and Fields' shop at the corner of School Street and Washington Street published iconic literary works like Henry David Thoreau's Walden Life in the Woods and Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter. Over the course of 75 years, the corner store was home to ten...