The Folger is open this weekend (August 22-23). The roads directly around our building are not impacted by the Grand Prix race. For a list of road closures that may affect your travel route, visit the city government website.
Some people believe that the Renaissance image of “Merry England,” a land of festivity and mirth, was a myth created during the Stuart reign by people nostalgic for the good old days before the Puritans put the kibosh on fun. But scholar Ronald Hutton, who pored through records of church ales and other gatherings, finds more than a grain of truth in the idea.
