The following is an article published in the New York Times:EssayBooks to Chew OnBy BLAKE ESKINPublished: March 26, 2006 FOR certain voracious readers, April 1 has become a red-letter day: It’s the one time of the year when they get to eat books. They won’t eat just any book, only those prepared especially for the …
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Brundibar opens in NYC!
Did you know the Highlights Gallery features a drawing from Maurice Sendak’s book Brundibar? An adaptation of the story was recently revived for the stage and will be performed in New York City beginning in late April at the New Victory Theater. For the book and the new production of the opera, Sendak has teamed …
Phillis Wheatley Acquisition
On February 28th, 2005, Bill Adair, Director of Education and Catherine Parmar, Associate Director of Education, traveled to the Swann Galleries in New York City for the auction of an issue of The Essex Gazette dated October 1770 that contains an advertisement for an elegiac poem written by Phillis Wheatley on the death of the …
Dr. Franklin goes to Washington, D.C.
On March 23rd, the Rosenbach’s first printing, first edition, of the 1733 Poor Richard Almanac travelled to the White House for a Franklin birthday celebration hosted by President George W. Bush and First Lady Laura Bush. The Rosenbach’s Board Chairman Bernard Newman and his wife Judy represented the museum at the dinner. Mr. Newman, who …