Monday, September 23, 2002

Our program tonight is "Birds, Butterflies and Beauty of Costa Rica."  Walt and Carol Anderson will present this slide/lecture starting at 7:30 pm.  Come join us. 1:38:36 PM    comments? [] - "A treasure trove of lost Ernest Hemingway manuscripts .... -  "A treasure trove of lost Ernest Hemingway manuscripts, personal photographs, and love letters has been seen by outsiders for the first time in decades in the basement of his Cuban villa, and a group with Massachusetts connections is working to preserve the artifacts before they disintegrate in the Caribbean climate." "The collection, which includes what appears to be a rejected epilogue to ''For Whom the Bell Tolls,'' is described by Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer A. Scott Berg as a ''mother lode of material.'' Those involved in the preservation project, including Representative James P. McGovern of Worcester, believe it can serve as a prototype for future academic and cultural collaboration between the United States and Cuba, old Cold War enemies which both venerate Hemingway's work." "Starting with a $75,000 grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, the preservationists have launched a national fund-raising drive to pay for microfilm copies of the collection and to help Cuban officials preserve the basement artifacts. One copy of the material would be stored at the John F. Kennedy Library in Boston, which already has the country's broadest Hemingway collection." (from The Boston Globe) [Library Stuff - Updated daily by Steven M. Cohen] 1:36:47 PM    comments? [] These readers are eager to pass the book [LISNews.com] Another Story on BookCrossing.com, a virtual book club aimed at turning the whole world into a lending library. Here's the idea: Take a book you've read, register it at the BookCrossing site, slap a special identifying label inside the cover, and leave the book in a public place. When someone finds it and logs on to the Web site using the book's BookCrossing ID number, you get notified by e-mail. 1:31:40 PM    comments? []

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