The Mary Baker Eddy Library
Room-sized stained-glass globe bridge where a whisper carries perfectly across thirty feet.
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This guide to the Mary Baker Eddy Library in Boston centers on a strange 1907 lawsuit against the eighty-five-year-old founder of Christian Science, after a New York newspaper had branded her senile. Her own son and grandchildren, named in court as her next friends, asked a New Hampshire court to strip her of control over her fortune and the copyright to her book. You'll hear how three court-appointed masters climbed the steps of her estate to question her themselves, and what an independent psychiatrist concluded. Step into the Mapparium's stained-glass globe and try a whisper across its thirty feet.
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