Jennifer Larson on Little Books and Big Ideas in the Seventeenth Century

Sponsored by The Baxter Society. On Zoom, Wed. Sept. 14 at 7:00pm Eastern Time Jennifer Larson, Chair of FABS, will give an illustrated lecture on her collection of miniature and small format books printed in the 17th century, their relationship to the intellectual currents of the time, and the reasons for the production of tiny […]

David R. Godine: Maine Books and Authors, and for Good Measure, Some Nautical Titles

Sponsored by The Baxter Society. Open to all members of FABS Societies. Email baxtersociety@gmail.com to request a link, which will be sent on the morning of the event. Wed. Oct 12 at 7:00pm Eastern Time. David R. Godine, independent publisher, will speak on Maine books and authors together with some nautical titles.

The Literary Archive of Elizabeth Coatsworth and Kate Barnes, Mother and Daughter

Sponsored by The Baxter Society Wed. Nov. 9 at 7:00pm Eastern Time Open to all members of FABS Societies. Email baxtersociety@gmail.com to request a link, which will be sent on the morning of the event. Jefferson Navicky, Archivist and Sarah E. Baker, Curator, both of the Maine Women Writers Collection at the University of New […]

Julia Bouwsma, Poet Laureate of Maine

Sponsored by The Baxter Society Open to all members of FABS societies On 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. Julia Bouwsma is a poet, a farmer, and a small-town librarian. She lives off-the-grid in the Blue Mountains […]

Rachel Church on The Women of Windy Hill (Artists’ Book on Community Cookbooks)

Sponsored by The Baxter Society Rachel Church will speak about her artist's book The Women of Windy Hill, which commemorates the creation of a self-published cookbook during the pandemic. To register for this talk, contact: baxtersociety@gmail.com From Rachel's website: In 2021, the Women’s Group of the North Vienna United Methodist Church, a church perched up […]

Up-Biblum God: The Algonquian Bible, Native Labor and Indigenous Futures

Sponsored by The Baxter Society and the Bowdoin College Library. Kimberly Toney, Coordinating Curator of Native American and Indigenous Collections at Bowdoin College Library, will speak on the Algonquian Bible. Free and open to the public on Zoom. To register and receive a Zoom link, contact: baxtersociety@gmail.com  

Nicholas Basbanes: “Before Paper: A Work in Progress”

Sponsored by The Baxter Society Free and open to the public via Zoom. To register contact: baxtersociety@gmail.com Nicholas Basbanes, NEH Public Scholar and beloved author of A Gentle Madness: Bibliophiles, Bibliomanes and the Eternal Passion for Books  and On Paper: The Everything of its Two-Thousand-Year History, will speak on his current project, Before Paper.