Tag: Old North Church

Gary Gregory of the Printing Office of Edes & Gill, in the 1715 Clough House o the campus of Boston's Old North Church, Aug. 13, 2023. (©Greg Cook photo)

Books Greg CookSeptember 5, 2023 0

At Boston’s Old North Church, Reprinting The Dangerous Ideas That Sparked A Revolution

Though the first printing press was imported from Europe into the Americas around 1554, to Mexico City, and Harvard got the first printing press in the English colonies in 1639,…Continue Reading →

Re-installing the repaired 1726 Avery-Bennett clock at Boston's Old North Church on June 16, 2021. (Courtesy Old North Church & Historic Site)

Art Greg CookJuly 19, 2021 0

Fixing The Nearly 300-Year-Old Clock Inside Boston’s Old North Church

A clock shaped a bit like an exclamation point, with a bronze sun shining at the center of its black face, has kept time inside Boston’s Old North Church since…Continue Reading →