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!”
Bird by Bird
If you consider yourself an amateur birdwatcher, you owe a debt to one of the first professional birdmen, Robert Ridgway, the Smithsonian’s first curator of birds. On May 1, Huntington curator Daniel Lewis will speak about his new book, “The Feathery Tribe: Robert Ridgway and the Modern Study of Birds.”
Expanding the Fellowship
Huntington President Steven Koblik’s election to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences comes in recognition of the ways he has helped create a climate where humanities scholarship can thrive.
First Among Huntington Librarians
It’s National Library Week (April 8–14), the perfect time to celebrate the contributions of The Huntington’s librarians, including Henry Huntington’s first: George Watson Cole.
A Grand Collection
Recently the Huntington Digital Library added a collection of 35,000 images from the Otis Marston Colorado River Collection, which is the result of many travels up and down the Colorado River through the Grand Canyon by Otis “Dock” Marston.
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.
Finding a New Place for the Frontier Thesis
A year ago, graduate students Erik Altenbernd and Alex Young were working at The Huntington as Mellon interns, helping to catalog a backlog of collections related to California history. Next week, they’re convening a symposium inspired by one of those collections—the papers of famed historian Frederick Jackson Turner.
Book Affair
Behind every great book collection is a good love story. This weekend’s 45th Annual California International Antiquarian Book Fair at the Pasadena Convention Center includes a lot of books as well as a special exhibition: “A Love Affair with Books: Personal Stories of Noted Collectors.”
