Stored and forgotten in a cramped closet in a South End basement, a 200-year-old printing press — 600 pounds of iron, wood, and plenty of dust — lurched recently toward a new chapter in its long and ...

It was a wonderful story. America s first printing press, used to publish the Freeman s Oath in 1639, was, centuries later, rescued from an old barn in Windsor. The famous Bay Psalm Book, known as the ...