LitFest Pasadena
The first LitFest Pasadena takes place Sat., May 12, at Pasadena’s Central Park and will feature a panel titled “Letting Down Our Hair: Reader-Friendly Books from the Ivory Tower,” with Huntington scholars Daniel Walker Howe, Karen Lystra, Barry Menikoff, and Peter Stallybrass holding forth on how to make a great scholarly book a great read.
Interactive Art
This weekend features a new exhibition opening at Cal State Fullerton that has a special connection to The Huntington’s manuscript collection, and Sunday you can come to The Huntington’s Botanical Center to see the one-day show “Art Matters Encore!”
The Legacy of Millard Sheets
On Sunday, March 18, the L.A. Conservancy is sponsoring a tour on “Millard Sheets: A Legacy of Art and Architecture.” It will be followed by a panel discussion on Sheets and his work. It will be followed by a panel discussion on Sheets and his work. Joining several artists and Sheets’ son and daughter on the panel will be historian Adam Arenson, author of a recent article in Huntington Frontiers about one of Sheets’ mosaic artists, Denis O’Connor.
LitFest Pasadena
[EVENT POSTPONED UNTIL MAY 12, DUE TO WEATHER] The first LitFest Pasadena takes place Sat., March 17, and will feature a panel titled “Letting Down Our Hair: Reader-Friendly Books from the Ivory Tower,” with Huntington scholars Daniel Walker Howe, Karen Lystra, and Peter Stallybrass holding forth on how to make a great scholarly book a great read.
Defying Gravity
Just four years after the Wright brothers’ famed first flight at Kitty Hawk, a man in the Sierra foothills of California built a contraption that resembled an airplane. His story inspired Ben Rich, the director of Lockheed’s Skunk Works in the 1970s and ’80s.
Terra Cognita
This Sunday, American History TV (C-SPAN 3) will broadcast “The Presidency: Thomas Jefferson and Alternatives to Slavery,” a program that picks up where Laura Voisin George left off in her Huntington Frontiers article last spring about an archaeological excavation in Virginia.
Welcome to the Ranch!
If you’ve been eagerly awaiting a chance to explore the Ranch, The Huntington’s new sustainable urban agriculture site, wait no more. Starting Saturday, May 28, we’ll be offering a monthly open house to allow visitors an opportunity to explore the Ranch site.
The Shade of Things
On Thursday night in New York City, Daniel Lewis will be giving the Norman Lecture on the History of Science and Medicine at the Grolier Club, arguably the most important book club in the country. Lewis will be talking about the history of color dictionaries.
A Big Page-Turner
On Tuesday, Sotheby’s auctioned off a copy of John James Audubon’s monumental Birds of America, breaking the record for the highest winning bid for a published book. Aside from the $10.2 million price tag, everything else about the book is big.
Return to the Ranch
In the spring/summer 2009 issue of Huntington Frontiers magazine, I wrote about a project that was underway to return The Huntington to its agricultural roots. Next week marks the official unveiling of the…
