In 1960, a well-known literature professor at Smith College was arrested for having gay pornographic materials in his Northampton, Massachusetts, apartment. Four decades later, that scandal became the basis for a nonfiction book.
Now the story is getting a new telling — an operatic one — on the very college campus where the original events took place. New England Public Radio’s Karen Brown (@kbrownreports) reports.
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