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class=934330921-15102007>I hope this announcement of a program this week
and a special book project will be of interest to Libri list
subscribers.</SPAN></SPAN></P>
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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Emily Dickinson's
Reading: "The Long Foreground"<BR>Thursday, October 18 at 7:30
p.m.<BR></SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = st1 ns =
"urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:smarttags" /><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Amherst</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> Woman's Club,
</SPAN><st1:Street><st1:address><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">35 Triangle
Street</SPAN></st1:address></st1:Street></STRONG><STRONG><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> <BR>(corner of Triangle
and </SPAN><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Main</SPAN></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">, east of the
</SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Homestead</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City></STRONG><SPAN><STRONG>)</STRONG>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt"><SPAN><STRONG></STRONG><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Emily Dickinson's
reading, broad and deep, was vital to her existence. It offered a circumference
within which she dwelled and outside of which she imagined possibilities.
</SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Dickinson</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> scholar Jack Capps will
offer his perspective on "The Long Foreground" that helped to shape
</SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Dickinson</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">'s development as a
poet. A reception will follow the talk. </SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Capps
retired in 1988 as professor of English at the
</SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">United
States</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Military</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Academy</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">. Author
of the pioneering study <I>Emily Dickinson's Reading </I>(1966), Capps earned
his Ph. D. at the </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">University</SPAN></st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> of
</SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Pennsylvania</SPAN></st1:PlaceName></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">, where he
studied with </SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">editor
Thomas Johnson<SPAN class=934330921-15102007> who produced the first complete
collection of Dickinson's poetry</SPAN>.</SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> </SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN><STRONG><FONT
size=2>Replenishing the Shelves</FONT></STRONG></SPAN></P>
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size=2><o:p></o:p></FONT></STRONG></SPAN> </P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Jack Capps's lecture
inaugurates a special project at the </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Emily</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Dickinson</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Museum</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">, <STRONG>Replenishing
the Shelves</STRONG>, to recreate the libraries of the
</SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Homestead</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> and The Evergreens as
accurately as possible. The effort is dedicated to and led by Polly Longsworth,
a longtime </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Dickinson</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> scholar and the first
chair of the </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Emily</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Dickinson</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Museum</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">'s Board of
Governors.</SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> <o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Through the three
decades that Emily Dickinson wrote her poetry, ample, eclectic
libraries-containing those treasures the poet called "The strongest Friends of
the Soul" -stood open to her perusal in the </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Homestead</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> and The Evergreens.
Today, the shelves of both dwellings are bare. The project to recreate the
family libraries relies upon the collections as they now exist at
</SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Harvard</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">University</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">'s Houghton Library,
where several hundred </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Dickinson</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> family volumes have
resided since 1950, and </SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Brown</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">University</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">, which has housed the
remainder of the family libraries since the early 1990s. </SPAN></P>
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style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"><o:p></o:p></SPAN> </P>
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style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 0pt; mso-margin-top-alt: auto; mso-margin-bottom-alt: auto"><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">The
</SPAN><st1:place><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Emily</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN><st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Dickinson</SPAN></st1:PlaceName><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">
</SPAN><st1:PlaceType><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Museum</SPAN></st1:PlaceType></st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> is looking for clean,
tight books in good condition and in the exact editions known to have been in
the </SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Dickinson</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> family libraries. Once
acquired, the books will be displayed as they were when the
</SPAN><st1:City><st1:place><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'">Dickinson</SPAN></st1:place></st1:City><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; FONT-FAMILY: 'Times New Roman'"> family occupied their
homes. Full information about the project, guidelines for acquisition, and the
initial book list is available at the Museum's website at <A
href="http://www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/books">www.emilydickinsonmuseum.org/books</A>.
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class=934330921-15102007>I'm happy to answer any questions you might have about
this exciting project.</SPAN></o:p></SPAN></P></FONT></FONT></DIV>
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<P class=MsoAutoSig align=left><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Jane
Wald<BR></SPAN><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Executive Director<BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Emily Dickinson Museum<BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">280 Main Street<BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">Amherst, MA<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes">
</SPAN>01002<BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">413.542.2154<BR></SPAN><SPAN
style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt">jhwald@emilydickinsonmuseum.org<o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
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