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 …
Elizabeth Bishop & Franklin
Farrar Fitzgerald, our extraordinary shopkeeper and Moore expert, came across a postcard in the Moore collection the other day that would have been appropriate for Ben Franklin’s birthday this week, but all the ruckus around the opening of our exhibition kept us from getting to this blog. The postcard is from Elizabeth Bishop to Moore, …
Blue Book’s Value
This story from the BBC web site confirms our suspicions that Ulysses has become the most “valuable” novel of the 20th century–meaning that copies of its first edition sell for more than any other novel. Some of the best work done on the history of the 1922 edition and the fate of its 1000 copies …
The Big Sleep
…saw The Big Sleep on Turner Classic Movies last night (the 1946 Howard Hawks version) and was mesmerized, not just by Bogart and Bacall, but by the presence of a rare book dealer at the center of the plot. It struck me as significant somehow that Chandler used a book dealer–that in the 30’s and …
Harambee Project Explores African American Roots in Philadelphia
The Rosenbach is excited to partner with the Harambee Institute of Science and Technology, an African-centered charter school located in the Overbrook section of Philadelphia, for the museum’s first ever African American History in Philadelphia mapping project. The African American History in Philadelphia mapping project is the latest in a series of neighborhood mapping projects …
Costume Workshop
Last Saturday we had a costume-making workshop in anticipation of next Saturday’s Bat Parade. There is now glitter throughout the museum, which makes our days all the more festive. Here’s a link to all the Dracula-fest events. Be sure to check out the pictures of last year’s parade–you’ll get a sense of the incredible puppets …
