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Jonathan Senchyne on The Salisbury Club: Buffalo Bibliophiles
February 14 @ 12:00 pm - 1:00 pm CST
Sponsored by the Caxton Club.
February Midday Program
Jonathan Senchyne, Associate Professor & Director, Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture, University of Wisconsin – Madison
Oh we’re gonna shuffle-uffle-uffle off to Buffalo.
You won’t have to navigate the crowds at Grand Central Station to shuffle off to Buffalo. Just click a Zoom link and you’ll be transported to the Nickel City during what designers now call the mid-Century modern era.
As you arrive, you’ll be swept along to meet the Salisbury Club, a bibliophilic society that grew out of a friends group of the rare books branch of the Buffalo Public Library. During their time together, the members promoted public collections at the Buffalo library, the local historical society, and the University of Buffalo.
They also published a handful of private fine press editions (with stunning wood-cut illustrations) that highlighted little known documents as well as national figures with upstate New York connections. (For instance, it’s an easy drive from Buffalo to Elmira … if there was any well-known author who took up a Conklin fountain pen there.)
If you’ll be eating lunch as you watch, and Buffalo wings are too spicy, then put some brats, cheese soup, and maybe a bottle of Spotted Cow on the menu. We’ll be in the company of Jonathan Senchyne, Associate Professor of Book History and Print Culture in the Information School and Director of the Center for the History of Print and Digital Culture at the University of Wisconsin-Madison. Go Badgers!
So avoid a kerfuffle as off you shuffle and book into Buffalo today!
Preregistration required via website. Zoom presentation is free and open to all. Please forward this notice to anyone who may find it of interest.
Even if you can’t attend at the scheduled time, if you’re interested, please register. After the program, we’ll send anemail 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.
For more information, and to register, click here: https://caxtonclub.org/event-6029995/Registration
Register today!