Posts Tagged ‘lecture’
Reid Byers on “The Private Library”
February 22, 2023, 6pm, Zoom On Wednesday evening, February 22, Ticknor Society member Reid Byers took his Zoom audience on an extraordinary journey across continents and millennia to view and learn all about a remarkable variety of private libraries and their architecture, furnishings, and users. It was fascinating to learn precisely where these rooms of books…
Read MoreCalligrapher Margaret Shepherd on the making of Song of Songs
November 1, 2022, 7 pm, First Church in Boston Margaret Shepherd gave a presentation about the project that would become her book Song of Songs, the Bible’s Great Love Poems in Calligraphy. She described the range of techniques she used to express specific passages from the text through calligraphy, as well as the challenges she…
Read MoreThe History Project
March 22, 2022, 6 PM, Zoom Joan Ilacqua, Executive Director of The History Project, took attendees on a virtual tour of The History Project’s collections. Established in 1980, The History Project is Boston’s LGBTQ+ community archives and holds over 200 collections documenting LGBTQ+ life and experience in the Boston area and regionally in New England.…
Read MoreJohn O’Mara: “A bookseller who collects…a bartender who drinks?”
October 21, 2004, Signet Society, Harvard Square John O’Mara, of John O’Mara Fine Rare Books, entertained us with the story of his own personal collecting of annotated sixteenth-century books (with examples on exhibition) and how it relates to the current state of the book trade and book collecting.
Read MoreAn Evening with Joanne Dobson
November 19, 2003, Harvard Faculty Club This dinner and talk by author Joanne Dobson was cohosted with the Speckled Band of Boston, a Sherlock Holmes society. Professor Dobson teaches English at Fordham University and is the author of the Karen Pelletier mysteries. Her first in this series, Quieter than Sleep (1997), was an Agatha nominee.…
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