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Dear Colleagues,<BR>
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Here are further details on the Simon Winchester lecture:<BR>
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Commonwealth College of the <BR>
University of Massachusetts<BR>
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Hampshire College Center for the Book<BR>
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are pleased to sponsor a visit by<BR>
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Simon Winchester, author of <BR>
<I>The Professor and the Madman : a tale of murder, insanity, and the making of the Oxford English Dictionary<BR>
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</I>2:00 p.m. opening of exhibit of paintings by William Chester Minor (the "Madman"), Du Bois Library, University of Massachusetts<BR>
8:00 p.m. public lecture, Bowker Auditorium, University of Massachusetts<BR>
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Simon Winchester studied geology at Oxford and has written for <I>Condé Nast Traveler</I>, <I>Smithsonian</I>, and <I>National Geographic</I>. His most recent book is <I>The Map that Changed the World: William Smith and the Birth of Modern Geology</I> (HarperCollins, 2001). Mr. Winchester lives in Massachusetts and in the Western Isles of Scotland.<BR>
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Further information on the Commonwealth College program with which the lecture is associated:<BR>
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<U>http://www.umass.edu/newsoffice/archive/2002/093002course.htm<BR>
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</U>University of Massachusetts campus map:<BR>
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<U>http://www.umass.edu/umhome/maps/images/map_detail.pdf<BR>
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We look forward to seeing you.<BR>
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Jim Wald<BR>
(for the Center for the Book)<BR>
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