April 2010
On Thursday, April 22 a group of Chesapeake Chapter members gathered at the Library of Congress to visit with twenty examples of Books of Hours, lead by chapter member Dan DeSimone. | story & photos
March 2010
On Saturday, March 27 a group of Chesapeake Chapter members gathered at the Birdhouse Press to look at their collection of presses, type, dingbats, and composing sticks and to talk about the future of my collection. | story & photos
November 2009
The Chesapeake Chapter of the American Printing History Association held its annual meeting along with a Wayzgoose and a printing with woodtype demonstration and workshop at the home / shop of Chapter President Mike Denker. | story & photos
September 2009
Chapter member David Lasko of Berryville Graphics in Berryville, Virginia gave a grand tour of their hard and soft cover trade book printing capabilities. BG produces upwards of 11,000,000 trade books a month at the faciility including 3 million of the most recent Dan Brown bestseller, and a sizeable portion of each of the seven Harry Potter books (always under heavy security). | story & photos
August 2009
A chapter gathering watched "Proceed and Be Bold!" a film about Alabama letterpress printer Amos Kennedy held at the Government Printing Office. Lead Graffiti displayed about two dozen of Kennedy's posters. | story & photos
June 2009
A chapter gathering and show-and-tell on The Black Letter Tradition After William Morris in Fine Printing and Private Press Work held at The Library of Congress. | story & photos
May 2009
Maybe making up for a couple of slow months a nice second May meeting on the 28th took a group of Chesapeake Chapter members to the National Library of Medicine for an in-depth look at selection of books illustrating plants from 1480 up to the 18th Century. Michael North, Head of the Rare Books & Early Manuscripts Section, lead the tour. | story & photos
A dozen members and friends gathered on May 13th at The Walters Art Museum in Baltimore for a visit to the St. John's Bible exhibition, a look of Books of Hours from the museum's collection, and a closeup, behind-the-scenes look at the Manuscript and Rare Book Collection. | story & photos
January 2009
Roland Hoover's 80th birthday was celebrated by a group of twenty Chesapeake Chapter members of the American Printing History Association and special guests. | story & photos
The Chesapeake Chapter, along with the Washington Rare Books Group, held a monthly meeting at the Library of Congress with chapter member, Dan DeSimone, Curator of the Lessing J. Rosenwald Collection, talking about books on calligraphy and lettering. | story & photos
December 2008
The Chesapeake Chapter of the American Printing History Association has elected the following to serve a two-year term starting in January 2009 and running through December 2010.
Elected to the Program Committee were
Feel free to contact any officer or program committee member to suggest events or other items relating to the Chapter.
The Chesapeake Chapter joined with the Delaware Bibliophiles for an exhibition tour / talk on "The Well-Dressed Book", an exhibition on cloth bookbinding in the United States 1830-1920 held at the Hornbake Library, University of Maryland. | story and photos
November 2008
The Chesapeake Chapter held its annual business meeting at the home of member Stan Nelson. | story and photos
October 2008
Chapter members Mike Denker, Sara Stone, Stan Nelson, Jill Cypher, & Ray Nichols attended the annual national conference of the American Printing History Association held at the Grolier Club and Columbia University in New York City, October 10th - 12th. Saving the History of Printing, the 33rd annual conference of the American Printing History Association, addressed the preservation of both the materials and practices which are the primary sources of printing history. As the digital revolution continues its creative destruction, we are faced with saving not only physical materials like presses, type, and other equipment; manuals, catalogs and other printed material; and drawings and other archives, but the skills and knowledge to use and produce them. Click links below for photos and a bit of the story.
A dozen members of the Chesapeake Chapter visited Oak Knoll Fest XV and Lead Graffiti, the letterpress studio of chapter members Jill Cypher, Ray Nichols, & Mike Kaylor | photos
September 2008
Paul Shaw talked to the Chapter on type and book designer W.A. Dwiggins and his alter ego, Hermann Püterschein, on September 25, 2008 at The Catholic University in Washington, D.C. | photos
August 2008
The chapter gathered at the Library of Congress to talk American Printing for Children in the 18th & 19th Century. | photos
June 2008
The chapter gathered at the home and studio of chapter president Mike Denker. One of the events of the day was the erection of Mike's 'new' R. Hoe iron handpress | photos
February 2008
Chapter event: tour of the Government Printing Office, Washington, DC, Thursday, February 28, 2008 | review with photos
January 2008
Annual Chapter Business meeting at the home & studio of Chapter President Mike Denker, Saturday, January 19 | review with 19 photos
APHA National annual meeting held at the New York Public Library in New York City on Thursday, January 26th. | story and photos
November 2007
Thirteen APHA / Chesapeake Chapter members participated in an APHA / Chesapeake Chapter members exhibition at the May Gallery, Mullen Library at the Catholc University of America in Washington, D.C. from November 5th - December 28th. Participants included:
July 2007
The Catholic University of America Rare Books Department, Thursday, July 12 | review & photos
June 2007
Railway Station Press party, Boyce, VA, Saturday, June 23 | review & photos
May 2007
Scottish Rite of Freemasonry, Washington, DC, Tuesday, May 22 | review & photos
February 2007
Union Printmakers, Washington, DC Thursday, February 8 | review & photos
January 2007
APHA national, New York City Saturday, January 28 | review & photos
December 2006
Chapter meeting at Mike Denker's, Potomac, MD, with talks by Mike Anderson, Chris Manson and Stan Nelson - Saturday, December 9 | review & photos
