Sherborn’s “Memorable Mortality:” the Diphtheria Epidemic of 1754
Thursday, October 15 7:00—8:30 PM Community Room Sherborn Library 4 Sanger St. , Sherborn , MA, 01770 Oregon State University historian Ben Mutschler will help us understand how major epidemics, as well as lesser ailments common in early America, impacted everyday life in early New England. Author of Province of Affliction, Dr. Mutschler’s talk is partially inspired by the recent donation of a 1754 document to the Historical Society that lists Sherborn’s diphtheria victims, several of whom are buried at the Old South Burying Ground. Join us in the Library’s Community Room to hear about the tenuousness of life before modern medical science, and
