The 'Sconset School of Opinion

Next to the one-room schoolhouse another school, appealing to an intellectual summer crowd,was founded by Frederick C. Howe in 1922. At his inn on School Street, called Tavern on the Moors, Howe scheduled a season-long series of lectures for what was called the ’Sconset School of Opinion. He offered meals and lodging for the students who came to hear some of the more liberal writers and thinkers of the day. Although some of the speakers were initially suspected of socialist sentiments by locals as well as off-island commentators, the curriculum was varied and well attended throughout the 1920s and 30s, attracting well-known writers such as Sinclair Lewis and Eugene O’Neill.

Frederick C. Howe
Scan gift of Sam Daniel
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Tavern on the Moors, 1922
Scan gift of Sam Daniel
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Tavern on the Moors Sign
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A digital exhibition by the Nantucket Historical Association