The Ticknor Society

2021-25 Events

  • Richard Kopley on his new book, Edgar Allan Poe: A Life

    • 30 Apr 2025
    • 5:00 PM - 7:30 PM
    • Burns Library, Boston College

    On Wednesday, April 30, 2025, from 5:00 to 7:30 pm at the Burns Library, Boston College, Richard Kopley will discuss his just-published book, Edgar Allan Poe: A Life. Publisher's webpage here. The Ticknor Society will be co-sponsoring this public event with the Boston College Libraries. More details to follow in the April newsletter.

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15 Jan 2025 Everything You Need to Know About Entering the Ticknor Society's Collecting Prize Competition!
12 Dec 2024 Annual Show & Tell
9 Nov 2024 Collectors' Roundtable at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
26 Sep 2024 Longfellow House Visit
18 May 2024 Tour of the Peabody Essex Museum’s Phillips Library
20 Mar 2024 Book Collectors and Ticknor Prize Preparation Zoom
14 Mar 2024 Curator-led tour of the “Marks in Books” exhibit at Houghton
9 Jun 2023 Literary Afternoon in Western Massachusetts
9 May 2023 Dr. Jessica Linker on her Ticknor Prize-winning Collection
22 Apr 2023 Book Swap
4 Apr 2023 Do It Yourself! exhibit tour
21 Mar 2023 Collector’s Corner, with Tim Weiskel
22 Feb 2023 Reid Byers on “The Private Library”
1 Feb 2023 Tour of the “Materialia Lumina” exhibition
20 Jan 2023 Ticknor Collecting Prize: Preparing Your Entry
6 Dec 2022 2022 Show & Tell
12 Nov 2022 2022 Collectors’ Roundtable
1 Nov 2022 Calligrapher Margaret Shepherd on the making of Song of Songs
21 Oct 2022 First-ever Collectors Happy Hour
11 Oct 2022 Visit to the Katherine Small Gallery
24 Sep 2022 Visit to the Tannenbaum Library of Lewis Carroll
28 Aug 2022 Book Lover's Trip to Portsmouth, NH
14 Jun 2022 2022 Annual Meeting
3 May 2022 Library Tour with Erika Hapke Knowles
22 Mar 2022 The History Project
15 Feb 2022 Museum of Science Archives
8 Jan 2022 Paper Stories, Layered Dreams: The Art of Ekua Holmes
7 Oct 2021 Lexical Geometry with artist Sarah Hulsey
25 Sep 2021 Timekeeping Books