More exciting programming from the Emily Dickinson Museum!
In this issue
-- First Do No Harm: Saving Your Historic Family Photographs
-- Annual Emily Dickinson Birthday Lecture
-- "Amherst is Alive with Fun this Winter!" -- The Poet in Her Bedroom--Meet the Film-makers -- Emily Dickinson's Birthday Open House -- Holiday Shopping at the Emily Dickinson Museum -- National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Award -- "my Verse is alive" Exhibition -- About the Museum
New this year: The Emily Dickinson Museum will be open through December 28. So be sure to include the Museum Shop in your holiday shopping plans!
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First Do No Harm: Saving Your Historic Family Photographs 
Leader: Daria D'ArienzoSaturday, November 15, 2008 2:00 - 4:30 p.m. Alumni House at Amherst College $15 in advance; $18 at the door Tickets & Information: (413) 542-2034
D'Arienzo will discuss the issues surrounding
saving family photographic treasures from
daguerreotypes to Polaroids. Participants are
encouraged to
bring photographs about
which they have
preservation questions for D'Arienzo's
advice. Daria D'Arienzo is an archivist who served as Head of Archives and Special Collections at Amherst College for more than twenty years. An active supporter of the Emily Dickinson Museum, she chaired the Homestead Advisory Committee for several years and now serves on the Museum's Interpretation, Education and Programming Committee.
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Annual Emily Dickinson Birthday Lecture 
"What Did Dickinson Write?"Speaker: Virginia Jackson Thursday, December 11, 2008 4 p.m. Alumni House at Amherst College Free. Booksigning and light refreshments to follow lecture.
Virginia Jackson's recent book,
Dickinson's Misery: A Theory of Lyric Reading
(Princeton, 2005), poses fundamental
questions about reading habits we have come
to take for granted. How do we recognize a
poem when we see one? How do we know that
Emily Dickinson wrote poems? Because
Dickinson's writing remained largely
unpublished when she died in 1886, decisions
about what it was that Dickinson wrote have
been left to the editors, publishers, and
critics who have brought Dickinson's work
into public view.
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"Amherst is Alive with Fun this Winter!" "Elegant Little Entertainments" to benefit the Emily Dickinson Museum Thursday, December 11, 2008 6 until 9 p.m. Lewis-Sebring Dining Commons Valentine Hall Amherst College 59 College Street, Amherst
"Amherst is Alive with Fun this Winter"
recaptures the literary and cultural
delights of celebratory evenings past in the
setting of
a sumptuous feast, rediscovering the finest
of dining fare and customs in
nineteenth-century Amherst society. Seating is limited. Information and reservations are available by email at dmabelli@emilydickinsonmuseum.org or by phone at (413) 542-5084. Tickets range from $75 to $150. Payments by check or credit card (Visa or Mastercard) are accepted. Dinner proceeds will support the Museum's tours and programs. |
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The Poet in Her Bedroom--Meet the Film-makers Angles of a Landscape: Emily Dickinson The Poet in Her Bedroom Saturday, December 13, 2008 Noon (before the Birthday Open House at the Museum) Amherst Cinema Arts Center 28 Amity Street Downtown Amherst ACAC members, free; general public, $3 Join us for this special showing and discussion with film-makers Ernest Urvater and Terry Allen. Shot during the summer and fall of 2007, this new film is set in and around the Homestead, the family mansion in Amherst where Dickinson spent nearly her entire life. Much of the narration takes place in the poet's upstairs bedroom where she wrote and edited most of her work at a small table, behind a closed door. The film also includes many historic photos of the 19th-century Amherst that Dickinson knew before she stopped appearing in public.
The Poet in Her Bedroom explores several
mysteries about Dickinson's life during her
years as a mature poet. Premiered at the
Homestead in September during the Emily
Dickinson Museum's fifth anniversary
festivities, The Poet in Her Bedroom has
garnered immediate praise. Amherst Screen Test- Daily Hampshire Gazette by Suzanne Wilson |
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Emily Dickinson's Birthday Open House 1 - 4 p.m. Free Tours will be offered from 11a.m. - 12:30 p.m. at standard admission prices. The Museum's 13th annual "At Home" celebration of Emily Dickinson's birthday once again will feature self-guided tours of the Homestead and The Evergreens, Dickinsonian refreshments, crafts, music, and poetry readings. According to tradition and in honor of the 178th anniversary of Dickinson's birth, the first 178 visitors will receive a rose, courtesy of an anonymous donor.
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Holiday Shopping at the Emily Dickinson Museum 
With all the different people in your holiday
shopping life, it can be very hard to find
the perfect gift for that perfect
person.Cast your worries aside! The Emily Dickinson Museum Shop has something for everyone this holiday season!
From exquisite silk scarves to
warm Emily Dickinson
Museum sweatshirts, the Museum Shop also
provides
a vast array of
illustrated poetry books for people of all
ages and much, much more. And at the end of your holiday shopping day, snuggle up at home with a hot cup of tea and our brand new Emily Dickinson Gingerbread Cookies! Baked exclusively for the Museum by Atkins Farm in Amherst, the cookies are made from the original Dickinson recipe. We think you will agree -- they are the most delicious, soft, and spicy cookie you will have ever tasted. Happy Holidays!
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National Endowment for the Humanities Grant Award 
The Emily Dickinson Museum has received a
grant from the National Endowment for the
Humanities to host "Emily Dickinson: Person,
Poetry and Place," a Landmarks of American
History and Culture Workshop for School
Teachers.The week-long workshop, which will be offered twice in July 2009, is open to K-12 teachers from across the United States. For more information about the Workshop, please contact Cindy Dickinson, director of interpretation and programming, at csdickinson@emilydickinsonmuseum.org.
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"my Verse is alive" Exhibition 
"my Verse is alive,"
a provocative exhibit exploring the intriguing
posthumous
publication of Dickinson's poetry, continues
at the
Emily Dickinson Museum by popular demand!
The exhibit takes its title from Emily Dickinson's 1862 query to author and activist Thomas Wentworth Higginson: "Are you too deeply occupied to say if my Verse is alive?" With documents and family artifacts, the exhibit traces the creation of her literary reputation through the competing efforts and loyalties of family members and intimates in the first fifty years after the poet's death.
Located in the Tour Center.
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About the Museum 
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.
The Tour Center may be reached at 413-542-2947, Wed-Sun during museum hours.
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