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FABS Member Society Online/Virtual Events for this month: Free and Open to the Public
Many bibliophilic societies go on hiatus during July and/or August, but there are still several fascinating options this month for your virtual delectation.
It's time for Manuscript Monday! In this live presentation you'l learn about caring for your manuscript collection. Experienced cultural heritage preservation consultant Rebecca Elder will lead us through the physical aspects of paper documents, as well as proper storing and handling techniques for the longevity of your collection. It is not as hard as you think! Plus a Q&A. (The Manuscript Society, August 5).
Donna Nicol's Black Woman on Board: Claudia Hampton, the California State University, and the Fight to Save Affirmative Action examines the leadership strategies that Black women educators have employed as influential power brokers in predominantly white colleges and universities in the United States. Nicol will tell the extraordinary story of Dr. Claudia H. Hampton, the California State University (CSU) system’s first Black woman trustee, who later became the board’s first woman chair, (The Book Club of California, Aug 12)
Do the names Aldus, Gryphius, Plantin, Elzevier or Baskerville put a gleam in your eye? You're invited to attend the monthly meetings of the FABS Handpress Era Zoom group. The August meeting will be "Open Mic for the (Oft-Maligned) Seventeenth Century." Come equipped with an item printed between 1600 and 1700, or just a firmly-held opinion on engraved title pages! (Aug 12; contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org)
Join FABS’s Bindings Zoom group for a presentation and discussion with Madison Good about bookbinder Margaret Neil Armstrong (1867-1944). Madison will talk about Margaret Armstrong’s background and design career during the Art Nouveau period in America. The presentation will focus on Armstrong’s work as a designer of commercial bindings. Madison Good is a recent graduate of the Master’s program at Valdosta State University and currently works for Ohio State University’s Thompson Special Collections Department. (FABS, Aug 19. Contact Jennifer at info@fabsocieties.org)
Progressive school founder, collector and bibliophile Kent Bicknell will present on his Alcott Family Collection, winner of a recent prize from the New England-based Ticknor Society. Built around the lives and work of Louisa May Alcott (Little Women), her talented sister, the artist May Alcott Nieriker, and her parents, social worker, Abigail Alcott and progressive educator and reformer, Bronson Alcott, the collection includes an account of Bronson Alcott’s famed Temple School in Boston; Louisa’s annotated copy of A Memoir of Ralph Waldo Emerson; and four unpublished letters from the artist, May Alcott Nieriker, along with images of her paintings. (Aug 19, The Book Club of California)
In popular mythology, the Overland Trail is typically a triumphant tale, with plucky easterners crossing the Plains in caravans of covered wagons. But not everyone reached Oregon and California. Some 6,600 migrants perished along the way and were buried where they fell, often on Indigenous land. As historian Sarah Keyes illuminates in her presentation, their graves ultimately became the seeds of U.S. expansion. (Aug 26, The Book Club of California)
The FABS Living With Books Zoom Group, hosted by Reid Byers, invites you to their lively monthly discussion of home libraries, with all their pleasures and paraphernalia. Recent discussions have included cataloging, lighting, photographing books, bookmarks, and much more. This month: best vs. actual library shelving; dual-purpose bookrooms. (FABS, Aug 27; NOTE that this group now meets at 7:00pm EST; contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org)
Sneak Peek at September
The FABS Handpress Group will host a presentation by John Bidwell, Curator Emeritus at the Morgan Library & Museum, on Bernardin de Saint-Pierre’s Paul et Virginie, a bestseller during the Romantic era. One of its bibliographers counted 269 editions published between 1789 and 1962. Bidwell will describe the 1795 first edition of the English translation by Helen Maria Williams, a book that has stumped the bibliographers because it appeared without an imprint. (September 9; contact Jennifer Larson at info@fabsocieties.org)
Stay tuned to the FABS Calendar, as more events are sure to be posted soon.
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