Events
Mennonite bookmark from Upper Bucks County, Pennsylvania, ca 1800. Courtesy of The Winterthur Library, Joseph Downs Collection of Manuscripts and Printed Ephemera, Winterthur, DE. Col. 320, acc. 65x547-548.
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Join Alexander Lawrence Ames for a virtual lecture sponsored by the Indian Valley Public Library in Telford, Pennsylvania. For more details and registration information, visit https://ivpl.assabetinteractive.com/calendar/virtual-author-presentation-alexander-ames/. If you have any questions, please contact DeAnne O'Brien, Adult Services Librarian, at dobrien@ivpl.org.
Attend the virtual book launch for The Word in the Wilderness: Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania on Sunday, July 19th at 4:30 p.m. The free Zoom event is hosted by the Horner Memorial Library of the German Society of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia. Advance registration is required by emailing gsplibrarian@gmail.com. Download the e-invitation here for more details.
A recording of the book launch event is below.
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Johannes Bard, penmanship sample, "Alphabet Romain," Adams County, Pennsylvania, ca. 1819-1821. Courtesy of the Winterthur Museum.
Pennsylvania State University Press Virtual Author Panel
Join PSU Press and the authors and volume editors of four recent books in Early American Studies for a virtual panel on Friday, June 19th at 1pm EST! Panelists will discuss their new books and answer your questions.
Our guests are:
Alexander Ames, author of The Word in the Wilderness: Popular Piety and the Manuscript Arts in Early Pennsylvania
Wendy Bellion, author of Iconoclasm in New York: Revolution to Reenactment
Cecile Fromont, editor of Afro-Catholic Festivals in the Americas: Performance, Representation, and the Making of Black Atlantic Tradition
Bethany Wiggin, editor of Babel of the Atlantic
Moderated by Kathryn Yahner, PSU Press Acquisitions Editor
A recording of the panel is available on PSU Press's Facebook page: https://www.facebook.com/PennStateUniversityPress/videos/612536482725084
Image: Matthew Carey, map of Pennsylvania, published in Philadelphia, 1813. Courtesy, The Rosenbach, Philadelphia.