The Ticknor Society

2021-26 Events

Upcoming Events

    • 13 May 2026
    • 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM
    • Zoom

    Join us at 6:00 pm on May 13, 2026 for a zoom program by 2025 Ticknor Collecting Prize Winner Jessica Chapel on Preserving Hidden Voices: A Collection of Thoroughbred Racing Culture.

    Captivated by a visit to Suffolk Downs in 2003, Jessica's exploration of horse racing deepens with the opportunity to write for Daily Racing Form. We will send the zoom link just prior to the program.

    • 29 May 2026
    • 11:00 AM - 12:30 PM
    • McMullen Museum of Art, Boston College, 2101 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, MA 02135

    The work of John Butler Yeats, his four artistic children, including William Butler Yeats, and a grandchild are explored in relation to each other and in their impact on the cultural life of Ireland. The exhibit runs through May 31. More information is available here.

    Free parking is available on the circle drive in front of the McMullen Museum.

    McMullen Museum of Art
    Boston College
    2101 Commonwealth Avenue
    Boston, MA 02135

    • 2 Jun 2026
    • 5:30 PM - 7:30 PM
    • First Church in Boston, 66 Marlborough St, Boston, MA 02116

    Our annual meeting includes officer reports and the election of officers and board members.

    Afterwards, we will have a lightning round Show &Tell program. We are looking for a few more volunteers to sign up to bring 1-2 items and speak for 5-7 minutes. Please contact Christine_jacobson@harvard.edu to sign up.

    First Church in Boston
    66 Marlborough St.
    Boston, MA 02116

Past events

2 May 2026 EVENT CANCELLED — Curators' Tour: Oratoria Dominica: Five Centuries of the Lord's Prayer in Print
18 Apr 2026 Curators' Tour: From a New Eden in Concord to Little Women
6 Apr 2026 Curator's Tour of "Thanks for Typing: Women’s Type Labor in Literature and the Arts"
14 Mar 2026 Curator's Tour with Reid Byers of "Imaginary Books: Lost, Unfinished and Fictive Works"
28 Feb 2026 Socializing and Shopping at the Brattle Book Shop
28 Jan 2026 Book Artist Melanie Mowinski
14 Jan 2026 The Ticknor Society's Collecting Prize Competition: Everything you Need to Know
6 Jan 2026 Panel Discussion on Zoom: Membership Libraries
10 Dec 2025 Curator's Tour of Edward Gorey: The Gloomy Gallery
3 Dec 2025 Read & Tell
8 Nov 2025 Collectors' Round Table at the Boston International Antiquarian Book Fair
2 Nov 2025 The Horology Collection (Books and Clocks!) of Bob Frishman
27 Sep 2025 Brattle Book Shop Social
12 Jul 2025 Rhode Island Excursion with the New England Chapter of APHA
25 Jun 2025 Annual Meeting, with Featured Speaker Professor Ann Blair
27 May 2025 Show & Tell
30 Apr 2025 Richard Kopley on his new book, Edgar Allan Poe: A Life
26 Mar 2025 Reid Byers - Imaginary Books: Lost, Unwritten, and Fictive Works Found Only in Other Books
26 Feb 2025 Fighting for the Crown Jewel: America, 1735-1775. Collecting Prize Presentation, by Douglas Scott Brown
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