The Baxter Society meetings for the coming academic year are scheduled to be in-person meetings (conditions permitting), but with an improved Zoom component, so it will be possible to attend and participate either way. The meeting schedule is posted on this website under Events. Because our accustomed meeting space will be unavailable next year due to construction, the Society will meet at the Cumberland Club, at 116 High Street in Portland.
Jennifer Larson, FABS President, to speak at September’s Hybrid Meeting
Jennifer Larson, the President of the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies, will speak on Wednesday, Sept. 14th, first sharing with us about the new FABS support programs for the Baxter Society and other clubs, and then speaking on the topic, “Little Books and Big Ideas in the Seventeenth Century.”
Jennifer Larson, Ph.D., began her collecting journey as a toddler obsessed with Fisher-Price little
people. Soon thereafter she turned her attention to little books, acquiring Maurice Sendak’s classic Nutshell Library and fiercely battling a classmate for possession of the school library’s smallest tome.
As her education proceeded, Jennifer’s interests broadened to include beautiful and curious books of all shapes and sizes, but miniature and small-format antiquarian books have remained her collecting passion. Jennifer has taught Classics at Kent State University for the last 30 years with a research program in Archaic Greek poetry, ancient Mediterranean religions, and the Cognitive Science of Religion. She currently serves as Chair of the Fellowship of American Bibliophilic Societies.