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APHA / Chesapeake Chapter events
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The activities listed here are proposed by the Chesapeake Chapter Program Committee consisting of
George Barnum, Joan Boudreau, Stuart Bradley, Jackie Coleburn, Mike Denker, chair, Donald Farren, August Imholtz, John Johnson, Mark Samuels Lasner, Chris Manson, and Casey Smith
Specific dates, times, and locations will be announced as details are finalized. These are projected programs, and may be subject to rescheduling or cancellation. Chapter activities are open to members and friends unless specifically limited.
If you'd like more information or want to help out, contact that member. Note: printed keepsakes are always nice for those attending.
Thursday, May 16, 2013
The Washington Rare Book Group invites APHA members to join them for their annual meeting and lunch at the Ft. McNair officers' Club
Thursday, May 16, 2012, at 12:00 noon, $26 each
A talk by Joy Kiser on "America's Other Audubon"
The author of America's Other Audubon, Joy has worked for years researching the remarkable story behind Genevieve Jones and the Jones family's Illustrations of the nests and eggs of birds of Ohio (Circleville, Ohio, 1880-1886). During that time she has lectured widely on it, from conferences at the Society for the History of Natural History in London to the Potomac Valley Audubon Society, and has published articles in the Ohio journal of science and the magazine Biblio, among others. Her book (New York: Princeton Architectural Press, 2012) has been a resounding hit – reviewed and highlighted in newspapers and magazines from the Columbus Dispatch to the Paris Review, from the Wall Street Journal to the journal Nature, and she has been interviewed by the Los Angeles Times, the Chicago Tribune, and National Public Radio, among others. There have even been spin-off publications and products, a sure sign of popular success.
Joy was born and raised in Ohio and received her Bachelor of Arts degree in Art History from the University of Akron in 1989, followed in 1990 by a Master's in Art History from Case Western Reserve University. She began working in libraries and archives and earned a Master's in Library Science in 1994 from Kent State University. From 1995 to 2001 she worked at the Cleveland Museum of Natural History, rising to Head Librarian and Curator of Rare Books, and it was there – on her very first day on the job – that her involvement with the "Nests & eggs" began.
When she moved to Washington in 2001 for a job as Head Librarian at the National Endowment for the Arts, Joy also began volunteering for the Smithsonian Libraries, and she produced an online display and essay about the "Nests & eggs" for the Libraries' website. Intrigued by Joy's research and the Joneses' book, Princeton Architectural Press undertook to publish a modern reproduction of the beautiful images that Genevieve Jones and her family produced over 100 years ago, and I invite you to join us at Fort McNair on the 16th to hear the full story of their fascinating work.
The event will begin with a cash bar at 11:30am followed by lunch at noon. The cost for the lunch is $26.00 per person. Places MUST be reserved in advance, and please note the names of any guests. Please send your check, made out to WRBG, to be received by Monday, May13th to William E. Baxter at 2524 North Florida Street, Arlington, VA 22207. If you have any questions, contact Bill at baxterw@si.edu or at 202-633-2067.
The lunch will also constitute the Group's annual meeting, including the election of officers for the coming year. I look forward to seeing you all at our last event until next fall.
Event managed for APHA by Casey Smith.
June 5, 2013
Michael Bean, Plate Printer
3609 Toddsbury Lane, Olney, MD.
Wednesday, June 5, 11am
Mike Bean is retired from the Bureau of Engraving & Printing and has invited up to a maximum of 15 so RSVPs to Stuart are mandatory.
Those interested should contact Stuart Bradley at stuartbradley@comcast.net or call 703.683.2335 to sign up.
Mike will operate one of his spider presses and pull some intaglio proofs, answer questions, and show us his museum that he has in his basement.
For anyone who would like to join in we will be going out to lunch afterward.
Event managed by Stuart Bradley.
July 2013
Day in Delaware. Visit the Lasner collection of Victorian books at University of Delaware library and a visit Lead Graffiti, the letterpress studio of chapter members, Ray Nichols & Jill Cypher who will likely be working on their annual Tour de Lead Graffiti poster project and everyone can see one of the stages happen.
Date to be decided. Event managed by Mark Samuels Lasner & Ray Nichols.
August 2013
George Washington Masonic Memorial, Alexandria, with a tour lead by Shawn Eyre.
Date to be decided. Event managed by Stuart Bradley.
September 2013
Day in Baltimore. Letterpress studios, bookstores, libraries, and possibly the Museum of Industry.
Date to be decided. Event managed by Val Lucas.
October 2013
Northern Virginia. George Mason University's Fenwick Library with Don Russel. A
visit to Don Starr and Helen Frederick's classes at George Mason University to see what they are doing.
Date to be decided. Event managed by Casey Smith.
November 2013
R.L. Pendelton, African American Printer, talk by Sibyl Moses, Library of Congress.
Weekday date to be decided. Event managed by Jackie Coleburn.
Annual meeting/Wayzgoose.
Date and event manager to be decided .
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