With April showers behind us, we welcome the blossoms of May! On Sunday May 4 at 1:30, Bartram’s Garden will host a second performance of Native Plants underneath the historic ginkgo tree. The first performance was this past Thursday at the Rosenbach. Two students from Richard Stockton College recited poetry as well as read aloud …
We are now past the third phase of our work with consultant Linda Norris in re-evaluating our program offerings for family audiences. The first phase was asking our stake holders to share their ideas. This past winter we met with staff members and docents and had them define family audiences. Norris wrote a terrific summery …
Once again it is snowing on January 25th, the birthday of Robert Burns and the occasion of Burns Night celebrations around the world. Typically a Burns Night gathering is a supper of haggis, nips, and taddies interspersed with many toasts and recitations of the Scottish Bard’s poetry. As I stopped to pick up the flowers …
…when they are Holding On Upside Down! Which is the title of scholar Linda Leavell’s new biography on the poet Marianne Moore. This past April, I corresponded with Dr. Leavell concerning a curious object which is displayed in Marianne Moore’s living room on the 3rd floor of the Rosenbach Museum. In the far corner of …
This year Bloomsday fell on a Sunday, and not just any Sunday, it was also Father’s Day. In the over twenty years of Bloomsday programs at the Rosenbach we have never had so many readers under 10-years-old! Fathers and their children “rejoyced” together in reading Ulysses for an audience of over 1,400 people. This was …
Dave Burrell called last week to say he would no longer be making his weekly visits to the Rosenbach’s reading room. After spending months reading through the museum’s collection of early civil war letters, broadsides, maps, photographs and diary entries he was retreating to his composition books to process his thoughts into music. The basic …
This unusual drawing, hangs on the wall in Marianne Moore’s living room just to the left of the fireplace. No, it is not a Sendak drawing. It is by another illustrator, Robert Andrew Parker.Parker illustrated eight of Moore’s poems for a limited edition book (only 195 copies were printed) published by the Museum of Modern …
The detail which appears on the left (similar to the detail used on the postcard for Dave Burrell’s up-coming performance at the Rosenbach) is from Charles Preuss’s map of the road from Missouri to Oregon.Orinigally published in 1846 this series of 7 maps details the journey west, from safe watering holes and good hunting spots …
Sitting in the bay window of the Rosenbach Museum & Library is an alabaster bust of Rita De Acosta Lydig by artist Malvina Hoffman. Hoffman’s sculpture is particularly striking not only in her choice of subject matter but also in her choice of stone. On certain afternoons it glows.The Rosenbach has more than one Hoffman …
On the North wall of the library, one finds among the Dickens’ collection the manuscript of The Pickwick Papers, Dickens’ first novel, (written in serial form and published monthly) which catapulted him to fame at the age of 24. In March of 1837, the recently married Dickens, moved into 48 Doughty Street with his wife …