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SUMMARY:ABAA 2023 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest Deadline
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the ABAA \n\nWe are pleased to announce the ABAA is accepting entries for the 2023 National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest where more than $6\,000 in prizes will be awarded to student collectors. \nThe contest is open to all prizewinners of college contests\, whether or not first prize\, as well as to interested students whose institutions do not offer contests. More information can be found here. All entries should be submitted by June 15\, 2023. For more information on the contest\, please visit contest.abaa.org. \n\nThe Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America (ABAA)\, the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies (FABS)\, the Grolier Club\, and the Center for the Book and the Rare Books and Special Collections Division (the Library of Congress) jointly assumed leadership of the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest in 2010. \nEstablished in 2005 by Fine Books & Collections Magazine to recognize outstanding book collecting efforts by college and university students\, the program aims to encourage young collectors to become accomplished bibliophiles. The magazine conducted the annual competition program for three years before turning over leadership to the new collaboration of institutional partners. \nCompetitions are held at more than three dozen colleges and universities across the United States. Some contests have been conducted for decades\, dating back to Swarthmore College’s first competition in the 1920s. All college or university prizewinners are encouraged to enter. Student collectors whose institutions do not offer a book collecting contest also may enter. All entries for the 2023 competition must be submitted by June 15\, 2023. \nThe Antiquarian Booksellers’ Association of America promotes ethical standards and professionalism in the antiquarian book trade\, encourages the collecting and preservation of rare books\, and supports education and research. The Fellowship of American Bibliographic Societies was formed in 1993 as a national organization of member book collecting groups. \nThe Center for the Book in the Library of Congress was established in 1977 to promote books\, reading\, literacy and libraries\, as well as the scholarly study of books. \nNoted collector\, bibliophile\, and philanthropist Susan Jaffe Tane funds the prizes for the National Collegiate Book Collecting Contest. The prize is known as The Susan Tane Prize for Student Book Collectors.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/abaa-2023-national-collegiate-book-collecting-contest-deadline/
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SUMMARY:Manuscript Society Digest for May and June 2023
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nManuscript Digest: May – June 2023 – This complimentary e-digest\, now published bi-monthly\, covers significant acquisitions and sales\, manuscripts lost and found\, rare books and ephemera\, document conservation\, and more  \nIn the News\nSassoon Sale Sets Record\, But …\nReuters\, May 17\, 2023\nThe Codex Sassoon\, the world’s oldest (almost) complete Bible\, has sold for more than the Codex Leicester but less than a first-edition Constitution and below its own estimate.\n• The man who paid the price \nWashington Book Rips Past Estimate\nFine Books & Collections\, May 5\, 2023\nA bidding war over a book from George Washington’s library ended at $441\,000. Why so high? Because Washington’s books come up so rarely? Or is Americana having a moment? \nThis Scarlet Letter ‘A’ Is for Auction\nSmithsonian Magazine\, May 9\, 2023\nNathaniel Hawthorne famously destroyed his manuscript of The Scarlet Letter. But a passage from the book in his “infernal hand” survives\, and it’s on the block.\n• The collector’s story \nMadison Manuscript Surfaces in the Files\nCardinal News\, April 11\, 2023\nSometimes it pays to take a closer look. An unsigned document at Washington & Lee University turned out to be a rare James Madison manuscript on a hot topic. \nPapers Show Musings on Court Rulings\nDNYUZ | New York Times\, May 2\, 2023\nNewly released papers of Justice John Paul Stevens are filled with handwritten notes\, marked-up briefs\, draft opinions … and views on the US Supreme Court. What they reveal. \nKing Biographer Corrects the Record\nNPR\, May 16\, 2023\nIn a 1965 Playboy interview\, Martin Luther King Jr. tore into Malcolm X. Or did he? A dive into the archives unearthed a gap between how the article read and what King actually said. \nRenovation Uncovers Looted Manuscripts\nPhiladelphia Tribune | New York Times\, May 7\, 2023\nOh\, what turns up during a renovation — in this case\, manuscripts looted in World War I\, stashed for years on an auction house shelf. How they got there and where they go next. \nA Manuscript Tale Comes to an End\nHerald-Banner\, April 3\, 2023\nIn 1984 a student of Greek paleography found a manuscript leaf in a Pennsylvania supermarket. The find turned into a 39-year quest to reunite leaves of an ancient codex.\n• The lives lost to medieval manuscripts \nWas Gutenberg First? Not Really\nSmithsonian Magazine\, June 2023\nNearly 400 years before Gutenberg\, monks in China printed a Buddhist anthology. Pages were up at the Huntington during the Manuscript Society’s tour. More on this amazing text. \nScholar Gets the Last Laugh on Naysayers\nVice\, May 31\, 2023\nThere are no manuscripts of medieval minstrelsy. Wrong! A scholar has stumbled across notes from a 15th-century act — and maybe the birth of Monty Python’s killer rabbit. \nFrom Our Blog\nIssues and Opportunities in Rare Book & Manuscript Collecting \nBrick and mortar locations. Online sites for auctions and dealers. Virtual and live shows. So many places to purchase manuscripts and books\, and the landscape keeps changing. Where’s a collector to go? Spencer Stuart and Brian Kathenes shared their insights on the state of the market in a recent Manuscript Mondays webinar. \nOther Items of Interest\nRich Hours –  Celebrate summer with “the world’s most beautiful calendar.” > Feast your eyes \nHigh Wattage – FB&C’s Bright Young Librarians of 2023 are all from our member institutions. > Say hi
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-society-digest-for-may-and-june-2023/
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SUMMARY:Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize deadline
DESCRIPTION:The Honey & Wax Book Collecting Prize confers a cash award of $1000 for an outstanding book collection conceived and built by a young woman. The deadline is June 15. \nThe contest is open to women book collectors in the United States\, aged 30 or younger. Contestants do not need to be enrolled in a degree program\, nor do they require a sponsor. Honey & Wax uses ‘women’ in its most expansive definition\, one fully inclusive of non-binary\, trans and gender-non-conforming collectors. \nThe winning collection must have been started by the contestant\, and all items in the collection must be owned by her. A collection may include books\, manuscripts\, and ephemera; it may be organized by theme\, author\, illustrator\, publisher\, printing technique\, binding style\, or another clearly articulated principle. The winning collection will be more than a reading list of favorite texts: it will be a chosen group of printed or manuscript objects\, creatively assembled\, that shine light on one another. Collections will not be judged on their size or their market value\, but on their originality and their success in illuminating their chosen subjects. \nFor more information\, see this page: https://www.honeyandwaxbooks.com/prize.php
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/honey-wax-book-collecting-prize-deadline/
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SUMMARY:Frank Ingerson and George Dennison: A Bay Area Love Story in Arts & Crafts (1910-1966)
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nThe Splendid Disarray of Beauty (2023) tells two intertwined stories\, one of love\, the other of art. \nIn 1910\, the San Franciscans Frank Ingerson and George Dennison became permanently paired in life and love. Known among their friends and in their community as the Boys\, they remained in a de facto common law marriage for 55 years. \nIn the eastern foothills of the Santa Cruz mountains they established the first stand-alone summers-only art school in California. The school was devoted to the lifestyle and aesthetic of the American Arts & Crafts movement\, which aimed to imbue beauty into every element of day-to-day living\, taking nature as a source of inspiration in doing so. \nThe school lasted only four years but had a significant impact on the California art scene—inspiring the creation of three other summer-only art schools in Northern California and its distinguished alumni went on to found the California Society of Etchers and the ArtCenter College of Design in LA (now in Pasadena). \nIn 1915 both men held positions at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition: George was on its central committee as the chief operations officer for the Palace of Horticulture and designed the landscaping for the fair. Frank was in charge of the principal decorative arts exhibitions. \nThe men went on to form life-long friendships with famous artists and Hollywood stars\, including Olivia de Havilland\, Joan Fontaine\, Yehudi Menuhin\, Loie Fuller\, and Ruth St. Denis. Additionally\, during this time the pair cultivated a glamorous life that glittered across two continents. \nIn this talk Richard D. Mohr introduces us to two of the most interesting and admirable men you have never met\, until now. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Richard D. Mohr\, author and Professor Emeritus of Philosophy and of the Classics at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign \nRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_1f8zgZsUSNifeHaFJby8ZQ#/registration
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/frank-ingerson-and-george-dennison-a-bay-area-love-story-in-arts-crafts-1910-1966/
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SUMMARY:David Ruggles Prize for Young Collectors of Color: Deadline
DESCRIPTION:The David Ruggles Prize is an international book collecting prize created to support and encourage young collectors of color: https://rugglesprize.org/ \nThe prize honors the legacy of David Ruggles\, an early American abolitionist\, publisher\, and Underground Railroad conductor. The New York grocery store he opened in 1828 soon became the country’s first Black-owned bookstore. \nThere was a fantastic group of applications last year\, culminating in an impressive roster of winners. This year’s deadline (June 11) is fast approaching. Please share it widely — with your students\, your colleagues\, your customers\, wherever collectors might be found. If you have any questions\, or would like a simple PDF flier to print and post locally\, reach out to info@rugglesprize.org. The five judges represent an impressive breadth of the book world and are excited to see this year’s applications. \nThe contest is open to anyone aged 35 and under\, anywhere in the world. There are three prizes\, so three chances to win: $1\,000 grand prize\, $500 second prize\, and $250 third prize. \nIf you’re not already\, give ’em a follow on Instagram and/or Twitter (@rugglesprize). \nThanks for boosting the signal\, and with many thanks to the prize’s generous sponsors\,
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/david-ruggles-prize-for-young-collectors-of-color-deadline/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230609T130000
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SUMMARY:Tara O’Brien on Book Arts in American History: Printing\, Binding\, and Illustration
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nWe’re hoping that our June speaker will have enough material to draw on in order to fashion a presentation. After all\, she has access to only 21 million choices. \nTara O’Brien serves as Director of Preservation & Conservation Services at Philadelphia’s Historical Society of Pennsylvania. (The library was founded more than a decade before Chicago was even incorporated as a city … and we’re behind on cheesesteak sandwiches as well.) Philadelphia has a rich tradition in print\, and Tara will share superb examples of how the book arts came to life in printing\, binding\, and illustration. \nTara is an accomplished printmaker\, teacher\, and preservationist/conservationist. She’ll reveal America’s rich tradition in the book arts in a generously illustrated presentation. Much in demand as a speaker\, she has lectured internationally on a range of topics. \nRegister today for a presentation you’re sure to Brotherly Love.\nhttps://caxtonclub.org/event-5290247 \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/tara-obrien-on-book-arts-in-american-history-printing-binding-and-illustration/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20230608T180000
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SUMMARY:Henry Voigt on “A Century of Dining Out: The American Story in Menus\, 1841-1941”
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nMenus can transport us back to the everyday life of the past\, whether to a lavish banquet in the Gilded Age or a food-relief eatery during the Great Depression. Coming into general use in the United States in the 1840s when hotels and restaurants began to replace inns and taverns that served a limited choice of domestic-style meals\, menus offered guests a greater variety of dishes and added an element of anticipation to the experience. While most menus were intended for short-term use and never meant to be saved\, some were finely crafted by leading stationers like Tiffany’s and Dempsey & Carroll\, whose artists decorated them with silk ribbons and finely rendered watercolor scenes. \n“A Century of Dining Out” features 225 menus that reflect the first hundred years of their use in American society\, ranging from restaurants and hotels to Mississippi steamboats\, utopian communities\, and grand estates. Highlights include rare examples from the haunts of Edgar Allan Poe and Walt Whitman in New York City\, eateries in San Francisco during the California Gold Rush\, and special events such as Abraham Lincoln’s second inaugural ball and Mark Twain’s birthday party at Delmonico’s. The exhibition is curated by Grolier Club member Henry Voigt from his collection\, and an accompanying publication will be available in Spring 2023. \nA pre-recorded tour led by curator Henry Voigt of his exhibition “A Century of Dining Out: The American Story in Menus\, 1841-1941\,” which runs in the ground-floor exhibition hall of The Grolier Club through July 29\, 2023. The recorded tour will be followed by a live Q&A with Henry. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-tour-and-qa-a-century-of-dining-out-tickets-574803120607?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/henry-voigt-on-a-century-of-dining-out-the-american-story-in-menus-1841-1941/
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SUMMARY:Manuscript Monday – History in Your Hands: A Passion for Collecting
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nPresenter: Dr. Stuart Embury                                                           Moderator: Brian Kathenes\n \nJohn Sloan Letter – collection of S. Embury \n\nIt’s a letter written by Pierre-Auguste Renoir\, Thomas Jefferson\, Napoleon Bonaparte\, or perhaps Georgia O’Keeffe.  You’ve read about them or seen their art\, but now you reading their words written in their hand. You are holding it in yours. This is the passion of collecting! \nJoin us for a personal tour of the incredible autograph collection of Dr. Stuart Embury: History in Your Hands. \nDr. Embury will share amazing letters and manuscripts from some of the world’s most well-known artists\, world leaders and historical celebrities: Renoir\, Manet\, Whistler\, Degas\, Albert Schweitzer\, Napoleon\, Gilbert Stuart\, Mary Cassatt\, Albert Bierstadt\, Thomas Jefferson\, George Washington\, and many others. PLUS\, he will reveal some inside tips on finding special additions to your collection. \nPresenter:\nDr. Stuart Embury is a retired family physician from Holdrege\, Nebraska. He was involved in medicine for more than fifty years.  He became interested in art when starting his practice in 1970\, when he began collecting original prints and American art books. This evolved into a 12\,500-volume library of all aspects of American art. A few years later his interest turned to painting\, watercolor\, and sculpture. He became friends with Luigi Lucioni\, an Italian-American artist\, and published three books about him. (paintings\, prints\, and his relationship with singer Ethel Waters). During the last several decades he has focused on autographs\, letters\, documents\, and manuscripts on American artists. \nThe collection stands at 1\,500 pieces with a Gilbert Stuart letter being the rarest. He intends to donate the collection to the Archives of American Art. \nDr. Embury is a long-time member and supporter of the Manuscript Society. \nRegister in advance for this webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_wKp0aGpgSNu9FEpvxAbGNA \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. \nFor Archives of Manuscript Mondays: Click
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-monday-history-in-your-hands-a-passion-for-collecting/
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SUMMARY:Dave Richards: "I Give These Books: The History of Yale University Library\, 1656-2022"
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nGrolier member David Alan Richards (Stamford\, CT)\, retired lawyer and literary\, social\, and legal historian\, will give an illustrated talk on his new book from Oak Knoll Press\, “I Give These Books: The History of Yale University Library\, 1656-2022.” This is the first history to be written of a library of one of America’s colonial colleges from its origin through the digital age\, with comparisons to Yale’s 18th-century counterparts at Harvard\, Princeton\, and William & Mary\, through the construction of the great 20th-century repositories of Sterling Memorial Library in New Haven\, the Widener at Harvard\, and the Low at Columbia\, down to the era of digital files and the national “Borrow-Direct” program\, which gives the students attending its participating institutions each access to 90 million books. \nRegister for the webcast here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-dave-richards-on-american-private-university-library-tickets-585792329627?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/dave-richards-i-give-these-books-the-history-of-yale-university-library-1656-2022/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230522T180000
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SUMMARY:California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric — and What It Means for America’s Power Grid
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nPacific Gas and Electric was a legacy company built by innovators and visionaries\, establishing California as a desirable home and economic powerhouse. In California Burning\, Wall Street Journal reporter and Pulitzer finalist Katherine Blunt examines how that legacy fell apart—unraveling a long history of deadly failures in which Pacific Gas and Electric endangered millions of Northern Californians\, through criminal neglect of its infrastructure. As PG&E prioritized profits and politics\, power lines went unchecked—until a rusted hook purchased for 56 cents in 1921 split in two\, sparking the deadliest wildfire in California history. \nBeginning with PG&E’s public reckoning after the Paradise fire\, Blunt chronicles the evolution of PG&E’s shareholder base\, from innovators who built some of California’s first long-distance power lines to aggressive investors keen on reaping dividends. Following key players through pivotal decisions and legal battles\, California Burning reveals the forces that shaped the plight of PG&E: deregulation and market-gaming led by Enron Corp.\, an unyielding push for renewable energy\, and a swift increase in wildfire risk throughout the West\, while regulators and lawmakers pushed their own agendas. \nCalifornia Burning is a deeply reported\, character-driven narrative\, the story of a disaster expanding into a much bigger exploration of accountability. It’s an American tragedy that serves as a cautionary tale for utilities across the nation—especially as climate change makes aging infrastructure more vulnerable\, with potentially fatal consequences. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Katherine Blunt\, journalist and author \nRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8BnWFEU4TNaJ9WILi2U5tg#/registration
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/california-burning-the-fall-of-pacific-gas-and-electric-and-what-it-means-for-americas-power-grid/
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SUMMARY:Novelist Susan King on Lady Macbeth
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles \nOur Thursday\, May 18 (ZOOM) program features novelist Susan King. She will tell us what motivated her to write a very different (from Shakespeare) version of Macbeth. The result was Lady Macbeth: A Novel. Please join us in hearing about a very different version of The Scottish Play. \nTo register contact Binnie Syril Braunstein\, bsbgc@aol.com
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/novelist-susan-king-on-lady-macbeth/
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SUMMARY:The Oscar Lewis Awards: Book Club of California
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nThe Oscar Lewis Awards were established by the Book Club of California in 1994 in honor of Oscar Lewis (1893-1992)\, author\, historian\, and club secretary. \nThis year Richard Siebert will be recognized for his contributions to the Book Arts and Dorothy Lazard will be recognized for her contributions to Western History. This is a hybrid in-person and virtual event. \nRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_RMi9xpkXRIO1B6aTgE3tTA#/registration
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Chicago:20230512T120000
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SUMMARY:Dennis Duncan on Index\, A History of the
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nMay Midday Program \n \nNow we take search for granted\, asking Alexa or Siri to race through the Internet to find (though not always on the first try) exactly what we’re looking for. But it hasn’t always been so. \nPeople used to be faced with a thick accumulation of paper or papyrus\, however bound or stacked\, and wonder how they could track down the nugget of information they needed. Enter the indispensable index. \nDennis Duncan brings the history of this remarkable innovation to life in an entertaining and witty book\, Index\, A History of the\, that will be the subject of our May Midday gathering. Dr. Duncan is a lecturer at University College in London. You may have seen his writing in the Guardian\, the Times Literary Supplement\, or the London Review. He was a postdoc fellow at the Bodleian and has also been a fellow at Cambridge. An engaging speaker\, Dennis will have you looking at the back pages of your books with a fresh sense of wonder and appreciation. \nRegister here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5267071 \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/dennis-duncan-on-index-a-history-of-the/
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SUMMARY:Virtual Tour & Q&A: Zoe Anderson Norris\, Queen of Bohemia
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nJoin Curator Eve Kahn for a pre-recorded virtual tour of “Zoe Anderson Norris\, Queen of Bohemia\,” followed by a live Q&A. \n“To Fight for the Poor with My Pen: Zoe Anderson Norris\, Queen of Bohemia\,” runs in the 2nd-floor gallery of The Grolier Club through May 13\, 2023. Norris (1860-1914) – dubbed by Eve “the Nellie Bly you’ve never heard of” – was a Kentucky belle turned restless Kansas housewife turned “Queen of Bohemia\,” living with and reporting on some of New York City’s most vulnerable populations\, including immigrants\, sex workers\, and the poor in general\, and running her own bimonthly magazine\, “The East Side” (1909-1914) to help her document poverty\, incompetence and corruption. Eve is working on the first biography of Norris\, and the exhibit draws on about 100 objects from her collection\, shedding light on how Norris – a forerunner of today’s social-justice advocates and confessional bloggers – mined raw material from her childhood and youth\, her two bad marriages\, and her own feelings of being an outsider. Eve’s lecture will draw on her collection materials on view in the Grolier exhibition\, which includes the only complete run of “The East Side” known to survive in private hands\, as well as Norris’s novels and dozens of periodicals featuring her work alongside illustrations by major Gilded Age artists. Eve has also collected artifacts from Norris’s youth in Kentucky and Kansas\, publications by her contemporaries (such as fellow reformer Emma Goldman)\, and Ragged Edge Klub members’ sheet music and souvenir postcards). She will discuss Norris’s coverage of issues that still resonate today – corruption\, harassment\, sexual assault and trafficking. \n \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-tour-qa-zoe-anderson-norris-queen-of-bohemia-tickets-588440921637?utm_source=eventbrite&utm_medium=email&utm_content=follow_notification&utm_campaign=following_published_event&utm_term=Virtual+Tour+%26+Q%26A%3A+Zoe+Anderson+Norris%2C+Queen+of+Bohemia&aff=ebemoffollowpublishemail
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/virtual-tour-qa-zoe-anderson-norris-queen-of-bohemia/
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SUMMARY:Doctors and Distillers: The Remarkable Medicinal History of Beer\, Wine\, Spirits and Cocktails
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nIn 1848 when Samuel Brannan shouted “Gold! Gold! Gold from the American River!” the precious metal he was waving around was stored in a quinine bottle. Malaria\, scurvy\, and plague all impacted the young city of San Francisco- and many of the recommended treatments for each (cinchona bark\, citrus\, gin) came in beverage form. The City’s most fashionable bar\, located on the site of the Transamerica Building\, served a drink made with Peruvian brandy\, perhaps laced with a bit of cocaine\, which was described by Rudyard Kipling as “compounded of the shavings of cherub’s wings\, the glory of a tropical dawn\, the red clouds of sunset and the fragments of lost epics by dead masters.” In this talk by author Camper English\, we’ll start locally and think globally about diseases and conditions treated by alcohol-based medicine. Alcohol and Medicine have an inextricably intertwined history\, with innovations in each altering the path of the other. The story stretches back to ancient times\, when beer and wine were used to provide nutrition and hydration\, and were employed as solvents for healing botanicals. Over time\, alchemists distilled elixirs designed to cure all diseases\, monastic apothecaries developed mystical botanical liqueurs\, traveling physicians concocted dubious intoxicating nostrums\, and the drinks we’re familiar with today began to take form. In turn\, scientists studied fermentation and formed the germ theory of disease\, and developed an understanding of elemental gases and anesthetics. Modern cocktails like the Old-Fashioned\, Gimlet\, and Gin and Tonic were born as delicious remedies for diseases and discomforts. In “Doctors and Distillers\,” cocktails and spirits expert Camper English reveals how and why the contents of our medicine and liquor cabinets were\, until surprisingly recently\, one and the same. An in-person and virtual presentation by Camper English\, cocktails and spirits writer and speaker. \nRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_73Cocr_CRyahdxEI3dJlvg#/registration
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/doctors-and-distillers-the-remarkable-medicinal-history-of-beer-wine-spirits-and-cocktails/
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SUMMARY:Manuscript Mondays – Contemporary Issues and Opportunities in Rare Book & Manuscript Collecting
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Manuscript Society \nLive\, Free Webinar \nMonday\, May 1\, 2023 – 8:00 PM Eastern \n It is a big world out there! There are many places to purchase manuscripts and books. Brick and mortar locations\, online\, via auctions\, independent dealers\, virtual and live shows.  Options are almost endless. Each option is continually changing. What to do… where to go…. \n Spencer Stuart and Brian Kathenes will share their research and thoughts on the current state of the book and manuscript collecting market.  With this latest market update\, participants will better understand the big changes in the auction world and discover new collecting venues. \nFollowing up on his article in Manuscripts (Volume 75\, Number 1)\, Spencer W Stuart will share his research on the state of the rare book and manuscript auction activity through 2022 and 2023. Plus\, he will address issues within the Trade that will impact private and institutional collecting into the future. \nBrian Kathenes will provide participants with a selection of lesser-known auction venues. He will also reveal markets where collectors may find some pleasant surprises. \nPresenters\nSpencer W. Stuart is an experienced Collections Advisor.  He works with new\, expanding\, mature collections throughout the world [ both in private and institutional]. Spencer’s work is focused on aiding in collection development\, cataloguing\, and deacquisition strategies. \nHe holds a master’s degree in the History of Art from the Courtauld Institute in London\, England (recipient of the Director’s Award). Upon graduation he took a position with Bonhams Auctioneers where he worked closely with the North American Rare Books and Manuscripts department in Toronto and New York. \nBrian Kathenes is a Specialist Certified Appraiser of Autographs\, Manuscripts\, & Historical Documents\, and the host & moderator of Manuscript Monday. \nRegister in advance for this webinar:\nhttps://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_5uGuBocTSwylWllXtnuxHA \nAfter registering\, you will receive a confirmation email containing information about joining the webinar. \nFor Manuscript Mondays Archive \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/manuscript-mondays-contemporary-issues-and-opportunities-in-rare-book-manuscript-collecting/
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SUMMARY:Henry Voigt on American Menus VIRTUAL COMPONENT CANCELLED
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nNOTE: The virtual component of this event has been canceled. In conjunction with the “Century of Dining Out” exhibition\, the Grolier Club will host renowned scholar Paul Freedman on Wednesday\, June 21\, at 6pm EDT\, as he lectures on “How Dining Out Changed\, 1841-1941.” Virtual attendance is available: \nVirtual: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-paul-freedman-on-how-dining-out-changed-1841-1941-tickets-609633037827 \n  \n“A Century of Dining Out: The American Story in Menus\, 1841-1941” from the Collection of Henry Voigt. The exhibition runs April 26 through July 29\, 2023. \nMenus are minor\, transient documents that tell us how people have dined outside the home over time. They transport us back to the everyday life of the past – whether to a lavish banquet in the Gilded Age or a food-relief eatery during the Great Depression. They aid our cultural memory by providing historical evidence\, not only of what people were eating\, but what else they were doing and with whom they were doing it; and what they valued. \nThey came into general use in the United States in the 1840s\, when hotels and restaurants began to replace the old inns and taverns that served a limited choice of domestic-style meals. Dining among strangers in quasi-public spaces became a new and novel kind of entertainment in which the menu played a central role\, offering diners choice and anticipation for the first time. They suddenly appeared in all types of venues and forms of transportation. \nSince menus reflect all aspects of society\, it was possible to weave a literary thread through the exhibition\, including rare examples from a haunt of Edgar Allan Poe\, Mark Twain’s seventieth birthday party at Delmonico’s\, and a long-forgotten reception for French zoologist Paul B. Du Chaillu in the New Mexico Territory. The annual dinners of the American Bookseller’s Association and the Bibliophilic Society recall the social world of book dealers and prominent collectors in New York at the turn of the last century. \nThe menu is an art form that aims to please. While most were intended for short term use and not meant to be saved\, others were finely crafted by high-society stationers such as Tiffany’s and Dempsey & Carroll. However\, even when kept as personal momentos\, they were frequently discarded by later generations for whom they had no special meaning. As with other types of ephemera\, part of their appeal lies within the notion of their improbable survival. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-henry-voigt-on-american-menus-tickets-574802157727?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/henry-voigt-on-american-menus/
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SUMMARY:Bruce Kennett on W.A. Dwiggins\, Teller of Tales
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nApril Evening Program \n \nJoin us in welcoming Caxtonian Bruce Kennett as he discusses W.A. Dwiggins and his Athalinthia via Zoom. \nProduced entirely in New England\, Athalinthia is filled with delights. It comes straight from the imagination and heart of W.A. Dwiggins (WAD)\, one of the great visual artists of the twentieth century. Wise and witty stories written by Dwiggins\, are accompanied by more than a hundred of his fanciful illustrations – many of these never before seen in print. \nFrom 1910 to 1926\, Dwiggins created a series of stories about an imaginary place he named Athalinthia\, and the people who lived there. A place perhaps akin to Persia a thousand years ago\, or Uzbekistan in the nineteenth century … he never said. This is WAD at his most fanciful\, his most personal. \nIn 1928\, after nearly twenty years of writing and picture-making\, Dwiggins tried valiantly to get his stories published in one volume. He designed the book\, made a dummy\, and shopped it around to publishing houses. He had no luck. Discouraged\, WAD put his Athalinthia project aside. Thankfully\, after a delay of nearly a hundred years\, Dwiggins biographer Bruce Kennett picked it up and saw it through to the end. This is a remarkable achievement and a pure delight. In these troubling times\, stories such as these are a comfort for all of us to have on our bookshelves. \nZoom begins promptly at 6:30 PM CT/7:30 PM ET. \nPreregistration required via website. Zoom presentation is free and open to all. \nREGISTER HERE: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5251822/Registration \nPlease forward this notice to anyone who may find it of interest. \nEven if you can’t attend at the scheduled time\, if you’re interested\, please register. After the program\, we’ll send an email to all registrants\, asking if you’d like a link to the complete recording. That way you can see the program even if you couldn’t attend live\, ran into technical issues\, or simply wanted to watch it again. \nRegistering for the program will allow you the opportunity to purchase signed copies of Athalinthia for $67\, including tax and shipping.
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/bruce-kennett-on-w-a-dwiggins-teller-of-tales/
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SUMMARY:Jim Bridger: Trailblazer of the American West
DESCRIPTION:The Book Club of California \nEven among iconic frontiersmen like John C. Frémont\, Kit Carson\, and Jedediah Smith\, Jim Bridger stands out. A mountain man of the American West\, straddling the fur trade era and the age of exploration\, he lived the life legends are made of. His adventures are fit for remaking into the tall tales Bridger himself liked to tell. \nBorn in 1804 and orphaned at thirteen\, Bridger made his first western foray in 1822\, traveling up the Missouri River with Mike Fink and a hundred enterprising young men to trap beaver. At twenty he “discovered” the Great Salt Lake. At twenty-one he was the first to paddle the Bighorn River’s Bad Pass. At twenty-two he explored the wonders of Yellowstone. In the following years\, he led trapping brigades into Black-feet territory; guided expeditions of Smithsonian scientists\, topographical engineers\, and army leaders; and\, though he could neither read nor write\, mapped the tribal boundaries for the Great Indian Treaty of 1851. Enzler charts Bridger’s path from the fort he built on the Oregon Trail to the route he blazed for Montana gold miners to avert war with Red Cloud and his Lakota coalition. Along the way he married into the Flathead\, Ute\, and Shoshone tribes and produced seven children. \nTapping sources uncovered in the six decades since the last documented Bridger biography\, Enzler’s book fully conveys the drama and details of the larger-than-life history of the “King of the Mountain Men.” Enzler tells the definitive story of an extraordinary life. \nA virtual presentation by Jerry Enzler\, historian and author. \nRegister Here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_xPqSvx1hS12qe9KWZrQ48Q?mc_cid=d6f309a549&mc_eid=55809a2ee8
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/jim-bridger-trailblazer-of-the-american-west/
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SUMMARY:Secrets of a writing career: How a bus ride led (dragged) the author to pen short stories and romance novels.
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Baltimore Bibliophiles \nBinnie Syril Braunstein \nBaltimore writer Binnie Syril Braunstein has authored three romance novels and thirty-six published short stories. The novels (The Color of Love\, Out of the Darkness\, and Baby Love) were published by Harlequin Temptation under her pseudonym\, Binnie Syril. She is also a book collector; her collection includes (among other things)\, over one-hundred ten (110) different editions of her favorite fairy tale\, “Beauty and the Beast.” \nTo register\, contact Binnie at bsbgc@aol.com
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/secrets-of-a-writing-career-how-a-bus-ride-led-dragged-the-author-to-pen-short-stories-and-romance-novels/
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SUMMARY:Continental Reckoning: The American West in the Age of Expansion
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nIn Continental Reckoning renowned historian Elliott West presents a sweeping narrative of the American West and its vital role in the transformation of the nation. In the 1840s\, by which time the United States had expanded to the Pacific\, what would become the West was home to numerous vibrant Native cultures and vague claims by other nations. Thirty years later it was organized into states and territories and bound into the nation and world by an infrastructure of rails\, telegraph wires\, and roads and by a racial and ethnic order\, with its Indigenous peoples largely dispossessed and confined to reservations. \nUnprecedented exploration uncovered the West’s extraordinary resources\, beginning with the discovery of gold in California within days of the United States acquiring the territory following the Mexican-American War. As those resources were developed\, often by the most modern methods and through modern corporate enterprise\, half of the contiguous United States was physically transformed. Continental Reckoning guides the reader through the rippling\, multiplying changes wrought in the western half of the country\, arguing that these changes should be given equal billing with the Civil War in this crucial transition of national life. \nAs the West was acquired\, integrated into the nation\, and made over physically and culturally\, the United States shifted onto a course of accelerated economic growth\, a racial reordering and redefinition of citizenship\, engagement with global revolutions of science and technology\, and invigorated involvement with the larger world. The creation of the West and the emergence of modern America were intimately related. Neither can be understood without the other. With masterful prose and a critical eye\, West presents a fresh approach to the dawn of the American West\, one of the most pivotal periods of American history. \nA virtual presentation by Elliot West\, historian and author \nRegister here: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_7M1MpVEMQMSpqS44bWKd8w?mc_cid=d6f309a549&mc_eid=55809a2ee8
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/continental-reckoning-the-american-west-in-the-age-of-expansion/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230416T140000
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SUMMARY:BCW Annual Meeting with Sharon Cumberland\, Found in a Letter 1959: A Memoir in Poems
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by the Book Club of Washington \nAll are welcome at the BCW Annual Meeting. We transact a little business\, including making awards to students\, and enjoy a special presentation that is the inspiration for a related keepsake. This year our featured speaker is distinguished poet Dr. Sharon Cumberland. \nAbout the Presentation \nIn Dr. Cumberland’s latest book\, published last year\, she has created poems in her father’s voice that are based on\, and quote from\, his extensive correspondence\, some of which is reproduced in the book. Found in a Letter 1959: A Memoir in Poems is a unique creative response to the content of letters that her father wrote to his father every day for six months in 1959. In that period\, Sharon’s grandfather was hospitalized with cancer in Washington\, D.C.\, and her father was a Sloan Fellow at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology in Boston\, representing the Navy. Sharon will talk about how she translated the details of daily life described in the letters into poems. \nAbout the Speaker (transcribed from the book) \nSharon Cumberland is Professor Emeritus of English at Seattle University\, where she directed the Creative Writing Program and taught poetry writing and American literature. She has published scholarly work in orality and literacy studies\, new media\, and fan fiction. She spent her first sabbatical year in the Media Studies Program at M.I.T. Her chapbooks are The Arithmetic of Mourning from Green Rock Press\, Sharon Cumberland Greatest Hits from Pudding House Publications and\, with Denis Caswell\, CCausmwbeelrlland\, from Floating Bridge Press. Her poetry books are Peculiar Honors and Strange with Age\, both from Black Heron Press. Her poems have been widely published\, and she has won many awards and residencies. She lives in Shoreline\, Washington\, with her husband\, the scholar\, editor\, and letterpress printer James T. Jones. \nRegister here: https://www.bookclubofwashington.org/events-1/annual-meeting-with-presentation-by-sharon-cumberland
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/bcw-annual-meeting-with-sharon-cumberland-found-in-a-letter-1959-a-memoir-in-poems/
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SUMMARY:Submission Deadline: George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize
DESCRIPTION:The Ticknor Society in Boston will begin accepting submissions on March 1\, 2023 for the Fourth Annual George and Anna Eliot Ticknor Book and Book Culture Collecting Prize\, which was created to encourage and recognize those in New England who have been inspired to compile\, curate\, and own a book collection. The Prize awards $1000 to a collector of books\, manuscripts\, and/or ephemera who resides in one of the six New England states of Connecticut\, Massachusetts\, Maine\, New Hampshire\, Rhode Island\, and Vermont. The award also includes an invitation to speak about the winning collection to The Ticknor Society and a complimentary one-year Ticknor Society membership. All other entrants will receive a complimentary year of membership in the Ticknor Society \nThe deadline for applications is April 15\, and we encourage you to reapply with the same or a different submission if you have entered the competition previously. Learn more about our organization\, the Prize\, and how to enter at https://www.ticknor.org/collecting-prize/\, and please share this invitation with anyone you know who might have an interest. \nMany thanks and all best\, \nTicknor Society Board
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/submission-deadline-george-and-anna-eliot-ticknor-book-and-book-culture-collecting-prize/
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SUMMARY:Janice Katz on Japan Comes to Chicago: The 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nWhen/Where: 4/14/2023 12:00 PM CT \nZoom presentation is free and open to all. Preregistration required via website. \nIf specially equipped Deloreans like the one in Back to the Future were available at car dealerships\, an awful lot of test drives would probably take potential buyers to 1893 … the White City … the Midway … the Columbian Exposition. \nHere’s your chance to go\, and you won’t have to worry about what 1.21 gigawatts will do to your utility bill. All it takes is in-person or Zoom registration. \nDr. Janice Katz\, the Roger L. Weston Associate Curator of Japanese Art at the Art Institute of Chicago\, will be at the controls\, as she reveals the story of how the Exposition helped to lay the foundation for the Art Institute’s collection of Japanese art. \nThis generously illustrated program will transport you back 130 years to the Exposition and deliver you in modern time to the Art Institute as well. You’ll also hear about some Chicago folks whose names will ring a gong: Frank Lloyd Wright\, the Buckinghams (no\, not the band)\, and the Nickersons. \nThis fast-paced program (88 miles per hour!) features gorgeous art\, behind the scenes stories\, and one of events that’s a star on Chicago’s flag. Register today! \nRegister here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-5216101
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/janice-katz-on-japan-comes-to-chicago-the-1893-worlds-columbian-exposition/
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SUMMARY:The Photographic History of the Nineteenth-Century American West POSTPONED
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Caxton Club \nPOSTPONED: A scheduling conflict arose and we’re hopeful that we can deliver this program during our 2023–2024 season. \nOnline and open to all. \nQuick. What are the two flattest U.S. states? Here’s a hint\, neither correct response starts with “Kansas.” First place honors belong to Florida and second … to Illinois\, where many folks like to say that\, “On a clear day\, you can see the back of your head.” \nThat’s one reason that people first encountering the American West as they ventured from the Midwest were awestruck. Some of those encounters were captured on film – in stunning black and white – and our speaker\, Megan Friedel\, will be sharing examples of that photographic history with us. She’ll be drawing on the Rare and Distinctive Collections (which includes books and maps) at the University of Colorado Library. \nAn Amherst graduate\, Megan received an MLIS as well as a MA in history from Simmons College. She has served as president of the Society of Rocky Mountain Archivists and is on the editorial board of the Journal of Western Archives. \nWestern photographs from the nineteenth century often appear as small images clustered on a page in history books or as part of extraordinarily expensive set of collectible volumes. Here’s your chance to see them richly portrayed and in the company of an expert. \nRegister here: https://www.caxtonclub.org/event-5216101
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/megan-friedl-the-photographic-history-of-the-nineteenth-century-american-west/
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SUMMARY:Julia Bouwsma\, Poet Laureate of Maine
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Baxter Society \nOpen to all members of FABS societies \nOn Wednesday\, April 12\, at 7:00 pm\, the Baxter Society will host Julia Bouwsma\, the Poet Laureate of Maine\, in an online meeting over Zoom. \n\n\nJulia Bouwsma is a poet\, a farmer\, and a small-town librarian. She lives off-the-grid in the Blue Mountains of western Maine. The author of two poetry collections: Midden (Fordham University Press\, 2018) and Work by Bloodlight (Cider Press Review\, 2017)\, she is the Library Director for Webster Library in Kingfield\, Maine. \nJulia is the recipient of the 2019 and 2018 Maine Literary Awards for Poetry Book\, the 2016-17 Poets Out Loud Prize\, the 2015 Cider Press Review Book Award. She contributes poetry and  reviews to Cutthroat\, Poetry Daily\, Poetry Northwest\, RHINO\, River Styx\, and other journals. A former Managing Editor for Alice James Books\, she currently serves as an instructor at University of Maine at Farmington and on the Community Advisory Board for Maine Writers & Publishers Alliance. \nFor a zoom link please contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org \n 
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/julia-bouwsma-poet-laureate-of-maine/
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SUMMARY:Mujeres Hispanas y Tipografía-Hispanic Women and Typography Exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Book Club of California \nMujeres Hispanas y Tipografía (Hispanic Women and Typography) celebrates the talents and contributions of Hispanic women to design and typography. Showcasing four individual projects created by Laura Meseguer\, Marina Garone\, Sandra García\, Dafne Martínez\, and Jimena Gamio\, this publication targets tangible topics\, such as educational systems\, endangered indigenous languages\, and calligraphy. \nLavinia Lascaris and Ximena Amaya\, graduates of ArtCenter Graphic Design\, were chiefly responsible for the design and production of Mujeres Hispanas y Tipografía. They will be presenting their process in creating the catalog\, as they endeavored to share the importance of Hispanic women’s voices and challenge the colonial and patriarchal narratives that have permeated contemporary typography and design. \nAn in-person and virtual presentation by Gloria Kondrup\, professor\, ArtCenter College of Design and director of Archetype Press\, Lavinia Lascaris\, exhibition and graphic designer at Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography\, and Ximena Amaya\, graphic designer and Typography Fellow at Hoffmitz Milken Center for Typography. \nRegister to attend the webinar: https://us02web.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_qT6UQ034QVm8CEFaghgn6Q?mc_cid=d6f309a549&mc_eid=55809a2ee8
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/mujeres-hispanas-y-tipografia-hispanic-women-and-typography-exhibition/
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SUMMARY:AKRON ANTIQUARIAN BOOK AND PAPER SHOW - 2023
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by Northern Ohio Bibliophilic Society \nApril 7 and April 8 at the John S. Knight Center in Akron. \nFriday: 3:00pm-8:30pm\nSaturday: 10:00am-4:00pm
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/akron-antiquarian-book-and-paper-show-2023/
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SUMMARY:Pattern and Flow: Virtual Exhibition Tour
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nApril 5\, 6:00-7:30pm EST \nJoin this Zoom event for a virtual pre-recorded tour of the “Pattern and Flow” exhibition followed by a live Q&A. \n“Pattern and Flow” surveys for the first time the golden age of American decorated paper\, telling the story of 53 imaginative and innovative artists who\, working independently and together\, revived the largely forgotten arts of marbled and paste paper design. The designs created by these pioneers and their followers take traditional art forms to new\, expressive dimensions—some works are somber\, with muted tones and subtle coloration\, others are explosive in their use of color\, hypnotizing ripples and wave patterns\, or tessellated decorations. The colors and shapes allude to the seasons\, the sea\, geologic formations\, and cosmic imaginings\, or demonstrate pure and non-allusive abstraction. \nCurated by Mindell Dubansky (Museum Librarian for Preservation at the Thomas J. Watson Library at The Metropolitan Museum of Art)\, “Pattern and Flow” features a decade-by-decade look at the field through 150 objects from the Watson Library collection. Decorated papers will be shown in context with rare books\, objects\, color recipe books\, correspondence\, photographs\, and hand-tools used by Paper Legacy artists. Highlights include some of the earliest marbling treatises which inspired and instructed many of the artists\, including Charles W. Woolnough’s The whole art of marbling (London: G. Bell\, 1881); unexpected products made with the artists’ paper designs\, such as Galen Berry’s printed marbled rodeo poster; and an iconic marbled object: the original Kleenex box and its matching paper\, made by Faith Harrison. An accompanying monograph\, published by the Thomas J. Watson Library\, is distributed by Yale University Press. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-exhibition-tour-pattern-and-flow-tickets-467850091217?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/pattern-and-flow-virtual-exhibition-tour/
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SUMMARY:Child-Authored Texts in American Literature
DESCRIPTION:Sponsored by The Grolier Club \nApril 4\, 6:00-7:30pm \nChildren’s voices – found in diaries\, manuscript newspapers\, and other child-authored texts – constitute essential evidence for a fuller history of the American past\, illuminating how young people encountered and interpreted their worlds. While such texts are abundant\, they are not easily discoverable in archives. American Antiquarian Society curators – including Grolier Club member Laura Wasowicz and manuscript curator Ashley Cataldo – will discuss the history of American children as authors\, diarists\, printers\, and publishers\, and introduce a new initiative to make them available. “Historic Children’s Voices\, 1799-1899\,” supported with funds from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, will provide intellectual access to child-authored texts via detailed cataloging and digitization. AAS will be making over 11\,000 pages from these sources accessible to a wide variety of audiences via a web resource\, a conference\, a public program\, and teaching support for K-12 classrooms. This talk will feature examples of recently digitized and cataloged materials. \nRegister here: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/virtual-lecture-child-authored-texts-tickets-532140726237?aff=ebdsoporgprofile
URL:http://www.fabsocieties.org/event/child-authored-texts-in-american-literature/
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