In this issue
-- The Long Foreground
-- Replenishing the Shelves
-- Rocking to Emily Dickinson- ZERO AT THE BONE -- First, Do No Harm: Preserving Your Family Papers -- LIMITED EDITION POSTER
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The Long Foreground 
Emily Dickinson's Reading: "The Long
Foreground"Thursday, October 18 at 7:30 p.m. Amherst Woman's Club, 35 Triangle Street (corner of Triangle and Main, east of the Homestead) Emily Dickinson's reading, broad and deep, was vital to her existence. It offered a circumference within which she dwelled and outside of which she imagined possibilities. Dickinson scholar Jack Capps will offer his perspective on "The Long Foreground" that helped to shape Dickinson's development as a poet. A reception will follow the talk. A brigadier general, Capps retired in 1988 as professor of English at the United States Military Academy. Author of the pioneering study Emily Dickinson's Reading (1966), Capps earned his Ph. D. at the University of Pennsylvania, where he studied with Dickinson editor Thomas Johnson. |
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Replenishing the Shelves 
Jack Capps's lecture inaugurates a special
project at the Emily Dickinson Museum,
Replenishing the Shelves, to recreate
the libraries of the Homestead and The
Evergreens as accurately as possible. The
effort is dedicated to and led by Polly
Longsworth, a longtime Dickinson scholar and
the first chair of the Emily Dickinson
Museum's Board of Governors.
Through the three decades that Emily Dickinson wrote her poetry, ample, eclectic libraries-containing those treasures the poet called "The strongest Friends of the Soul" -stood open to her perusal in the Homestead and The Evergreens. Today, the shelves of both dwellings are bare. The project to recreate the family libraries relies upon the collections as they now exist at Harvard University's Houghton Library, where several hundred Dickinson family volumes have resided since 1950, and Brown University, which has housed the remainder of the family libraries since the early 1990s. The Emily Dickinson Museum is looking for clean books in good condition and in the exact editions known to have been in the Dickinson family libraries. Once acquired, the books will be displayed as they were when the Dickinson family occupied their homes. Full information about the project, guidelines for acquisition, and the initial book list is available at the Museum's website at www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/books. |
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Rocking to Emily Dickinson- ZERO AT THE BONE 
Emily Dickinson -- Zero at the Bone
A Performance by LumenArts
Thursday, October 25 at 3:45 p.m.Amherst Cinema Arts Center An imaginative and insightful program for all ages! The Museum is delighted to team up with the Amherst History Museum and the Amherst Cinema Arts Center to present "Emily Dickinson - Zero at the Bone." This live show combines the poetry of Emily Dickinson and the talent of Lumen Arts, the creative team of Nanette Perrotte and Sebastian Lockwood. In performance, Perrotte transforms the spirit and vitality of Dickinson's poetry into powerful music, while Lockwood weaves a narrative that presents Emily Dickinson not as the mythic solitary recluse, but as a fully empowered poet who chooses her life and her art. Tickets for the performance are $5 and may be purchased at the Amherst Cinema Arts Center box office: 413/253-2547 or www.amherstcinema.org. Funding provided in part by the New England Foundation for the Arts (NEFA) as part of the NEA Regional Touring Program. NEFA receives major support from the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) with additional support from the state arts agencies of New England. |
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First, Do No Harm: Preserving Your Family Papers 
First, Do No Harm: Preserving Your Family
PapersSaturday, November 10 at 2 p.m. Amherst Woman's Club, 35 Triangle Street (corner of Triangle and Main, east of the Homestead) Archivist Daria D'Arienzo will talk about the diaries, letters, photographs, newspaper clippings and other documents that chronicle the story of your family. In addition to describing the essential preservation steps to ensure that no harm is done, D'Arienzo will show the results of the "evils" commonly found among carelessly stored family records-including cardboard boxes, manila envelopes and metal paper clips. Participants are encouraged to bring family documents about which they have preservation concerns or questions. Daria D'Arienzo is the Head of Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College.
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LIMITED EDITION POSTER 
Don't let the year end without acquiring your
own
copy of the Emily Dickinson Museum's 2007 season
poster. Created by nationally acclaimed
illustrator
Penelope Dullaghan, the poster features Emily
Dickinson with her brilliant chestnut hair on a
landscape of her boundless imagination.
Posters are
$12 and can be purchased at our Tour Center
or via
mail.
If ordering by mail, please send a check for $15
(includes $3 for shipping and handling) to:
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The Emily Dickinson Museum: The Homestead and
The Evergreens is dedicated to educating diverse
audiences about the poet's life, family, creative
work, times, and enduring relevance, and to
preserving and interpreting the Homestead and The
Evergreens as historical resources for the benefit of
scholars and the general public. The Emily Dickinson
Museum is owned by the Trustees of Amherst
College and has its own Board of Governors,
which is charged with the responsibility of raising the
Museum's operating and capital funds. The Museum
is a member of Museums10,
a collaboration of 10 museums in the Pioneer Valley.
To find out
how you can support the Emily Dickinson Museum,
click here.
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