A Boston Tea Party (Spring 2012 Meeting)

The meeting took place on Saturday, April 28th, at Harvard University in the Houghton Library, home of the famed Amory Collection of Lewis Carroll, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Speakers included Selwyn Goodacre on the 150th anniversary of the boat ride during which Lewis Carroll told the Adventures to Alice Liddell and her sisters, with an update on the editions of Alice’s Adventures under Ground; Matt Demakos discussing the evolution from Under Ground to the Wonderland versions of the text; Mark Richards enlightening us on the finer points of Carroll’s mathematically poetic work A Tangled Tale; Alan Tannenbaum on A. B. Frost, the illustrator of A Tangled Tale and Rhyme? And Reason?; Linda Cassady talking about the exciting Wonderland Award at USC; and Chris Morgan demonstrating some of the magic practiced by Carroll.