Enoch Turner on Tap!
Wednesday, September 25, 2024, from 6:30 to 9:30 p.m.
Presented by the Enoch Turner Schoolhouse Foundation and the Ontario Heritage Trust. Custom beer created and provided by Granite Brewery.
Enoch Turner on Tap returns as a celebratory pub night to toast 175 years of free schooling at Toronto’s Enoch Turner Schoolhouse. Come and enjoy storytelling, snacks and Victorian games — and even sip on a custom-brewed beer good enough to impress Enoch Turner himself.
Storyteller Adam Bunch presents his book The Toronto Book of the Dead and the city’s morbid past. With grisly tales of war and plague, duels and executions, you can learn a lot about Toronto through stories whose endings were anything but peaceful. This talk delves into those tales — from the murder of Toronto’s first lighthouse keeper to the séances that grabbed headlines in the wake of the First World War — and how the city’s shifting attitudes toward death have impacted the way Toronto sees its own history.
Bunch is the author of The Toronto Book of the Dead and The Toronto Book of Love. He is also the host of the Canadiana documentary series, and the creator of the Toronto History Weekly newsletter, the Festival of Bizarre Toronto History, and the Toronto Dreams Project. His work, popularizing Canadian history, was recognized with the Governor General’s History Award for Popular Media — the Pierre Berton Award.
Tickets: $30
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Location:
Enoch Turner Schoolhouse
106 Trinity Street
Toronto, Ontario