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...William Alfred, the playwright and poet. To most of us, he was the stereotypical wild Irish poet who strode through the world bringing an almost magical power. Much later on, I met James Merrill and attended his reading of the first portion of The Changing Light at the Boston Athenaeum. The setting was old Boston, the light from the podium lit up his face, he read with elaborate gestures; it was dramatic, it was fascinating, it was perfect...
What Thompson calls “the most famous of all anthropodermic bindings” resides across the river at the Boston Athenaeum. The book, “The Highwayman: Narrative of the Life of James Allen alias George Walton,” is a memoir whose author lives on inside as well as on the book’s covers. Walton was impressed by the courage of a man whom he once attacked, and when Walton was facing execution, he asked to have his memoir bound in his own skin and presented to the brave...
...thriving, some are on the verge of giving up, but all have shown themselves to be willing to sacrifice and innovate to keep their vision intact and their businesses alive. UNITED KINGDOM: RED TAPE Mary Gallagher puts her hands on her hips and casts a practiced eye around Athenaeum House, the residential-care home for the elderly she runs in North London with her husband, Patrick. But before she can join her staff in feeding and tending to residents, she must tackle mounds of paperwork - a task that takes up about a quarter of her time. "What elderly people need...
...Both Soul Man, the story of a first-year Harvard Law School student desperate to secure a scholarship for black students, and the yet-to-be-released Prozac Nation were partly filmed there. With Honors was filmed at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign and at the Boston Athenaeum. Legally Blonde, starring Reese Witherspoon as a sorority girl who chases her boyfriend to HLS, was filmed at the University of Southern California (the autumn leaves are imported...
Particularly involved the Athenaeum’s art gallery, Hilles donated a number of portraits by Gerald Kelly as well as work by artist Alexander Calder. She also endowed the position of Curator of Paintings and Sculpture at the Athenaeum...