Vermont Antiquarian Booksellers Association

A Philadelphia Auction of Early Americana nets $2.3 million. See this article at the Philadelphia Inquirer for more information.

And is it true? and so very sad to hear that Fine Books & Collections will be going solely digital beginning January 2009. And so it, too, goes the way of Biblio. See this link at Lux Mentis, Lux Orbis, with whom I heartily agree… I, too, ”want” the hard copy of these journals on my shelf. Why can we not sustain such a journal as this I wonder??

Friday, November 21, 2008
Ten Treasures of the VHS Library – Celebration of Reiko and Charles E. Tuttle, Jr. Fund

1:00 pm – 2:00 pm • VHS Leahy Library, 60 Washington St., Barre, VT

Come see Ethan Allen’s “Reason, the Only Oracle of Man,” the earliest photographic images of Vermont, the original map for the proposed highway across the tops of the Green Mountains, plus seven other priceless materials in the VHS Leahy Library vaults! We will celebrate the launch of the Reiko and Charles E. Tuttle, Jr. Fund, which will benefit the library for years to come, making it possible to preserve and share treasures like these. Free – all are welcome. See the VHS website for more information.

You are Cordially Invited to JASNA-Vermont’s

~ Annual Jane Austen Birthday Tea ~
with The Burlington Country Dancers & “Impropriety”

[Val Medve calling ~ Lar Duggan, piano ~ Dominique Gagne, flute ~
Laura Markowitz, violin ~ Ana Ruesink, viola]

featuring
English Afternoon Tea • Gift Emporium • Live Music

Sunday, 7 December 2008 2 – 5 pm
Champlain College Burlington VT Hauke Center, 375 Maple St

“Such very superior dancing is not often seen!”
[Pride & Prejudice]

$10 in advance / $12 at the door / JASNA members $5
R SVP, Tickets & Information: jasna-vt [at]hotmail [dot]com

Dress : regency costume • holiday finery • comfy clothes & shoes

Please Join Us!

Terry Belanger, Director of the Rare Book School, will be speaking on "Meditations on the Future of Books and Book Collectors" on Monday, November 17, 7:00 pm in Marsh Lounge, Billings Library. Part of the UVM Special Collections Lecture Series and Co-sponsored by the UVM Humanities Center and the Classics Department. Contact: 802-656-2138 or uvmsc [at]uvm [dot] edu

VABA member Beth Kanell has just published her first novel, Darkness Under the Water, from Candelwick Books.

Beth has begun a signing tour and will be in Montpelier Vermont at Bear Pond Books on Saturday November 15 beginning at 11 A.M.

About the book:
This gripping and ultimately hopeful tale of an Abenaki-French Canadian girl in 1920s Vermont explores a dark episode in New England history. Just as the waters of a river roar through her town Molly Ballou's life is riding on a swift current where change comes faster than a spring flood. As a half - Abenaki Indian, half - French Canadian girl in Vermont, Molly is slowly realizing that her family and others like them are being targeted by a governmental effort to rid the state of so-called "poor citizens."

Not only is Molly facing discrimination, but she is also haunted by the ghostly presence of her drowned older sister and her grieving mother's evasive love. Curious about her family's traditions, Molly finds herself drawn to Henry, an Abenaki boy whose connection to the natural world provides solace when Molly's mother tragically loses a baby and grows increasingly ill. With Henry's support, sorrow gradually gives way to the joy of self-discovery — and allows Molly to look beyond hardship to a future of promise.

About the Author:
Beth Kanell is a poet and author of several travel and local history books. For this book, her first novel, she drew on family stories of farming and seafaring, a neighbor's tales of his Abenaki heritage, and the discovery that part of her own town, in Vermont's Northeast Kingdom, had vanished underwater. She lives in Waterford, Vermont and owns and operates Kingdom Books with her husband Dave.

for more information see
Beth Kanell.com
and
Kingdom Books, Mysteries, and Poetry

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