Author Talk: Derin Bray and Margaret Hodges - Loud, Naked, & in Three Colors: The Liberty Boys & The History of Tattooing in Boston

For more than this six decades Edward "Dad" Liberty and his three sons held a near-monopoly on tattooing in Boston’s gritty Scollay Square. Over the course of their long careers, the Liberty boys accumulated an unmatched collection of hand-painted tattoo “flash” art, vernacular photographs, colorful shop signs, and graphic ephemera documenting this rarely seen world.

Join authors Derin Bray and Margaret Hodges as they discuss their 2021 nonfiction book, Loud, Naked, & in Three Colors: The Liberty Boys & The History of Tattooing in Boston, which explores this visual and narrative history of tattooing in Boston from the early 1900s through 1962, when Massachusetts banned tattooing statewide.

Program is hybrid. No registration required for in-person attendees. Please register for the Zoom online presentation. https://boston-public-library.zoom.us/meeting/register/tZcqfuCpqTkqHNTZTDNao0K9yshi6C2GJSSO

Content disclaimer: This program will have imagery that may offend and is intended for adults.

For more information, contact 617-268-0180 or [email protected].

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