The Board of Directors is proud to announce the Winter and Spring Schedule for the Baxter Society.
December 5 – The Annual Meeting and Holiday Carouse, 5 pm for hors d'oeuvres at the Cumberland Club at 116 High St. in Portland. The parking lot is located at 129 Spring Street Place. In person only.
January 27 - Curator Reid Byers, Baxter member, will speak at the opening of his exhibition, Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished, and Fictive Books Found Only in Other Books. Top floor, Glickman Library. In person only. 5 pm.
February 18 - Baxter Annual Show and Tell: our yearly round-robin gives everyone a chance to share a treasured book. 6 pm. On Zoom only.
March 25 - Curator Mary Crawford will speak on her Grolier Club exhibition "Paper Jane: 250 Years of Austen", marking the 250th anniversary of the author's birth. 6 pm. On Zoom only.
April 8 - Dr. Milly Budny, director of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence, with speak on "Bembino, a New Multi-Lingual Font." The beautiful new font, supporting fifty-seven languages, is to be made freely available to the literary community this spring by the RGME. At the offices of Bernstein-Shur and on Zoom.
May 13 - Dr. Megan Cook, Arthur Jeremiah Roberts Associate Professor of Literature and Co-Chair of English at Colby College, will speak on "Blame It On Caxton: Early Modern Printers and Their Middle English Texts". At the offices of Bernstein-Shur and on Zoom.
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