LCSNA Meeting

Stephanie Lovett and Charlie and Janice Lovett were our hosts in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for a very full, multiple-venue three days (April 19-21). The events included a fully-staged performance of Dan Singer‘s new play, A Perfect Likeness, about an imagined meeting between Dodgson and Dickens; a talk by Charlie on the influence of Rev. Charles Dodgson on his son’s religious thinking; a... [read full post]

On Saturday, September 29 at the Fales Library in New York University (home of the fabled Berol collection), Washington Square campus, in New York City we were treated to talks by Adam Gopnik on Sylvie and Bruno Concluded; Robin Wilson, who wrote Lewis Carroll in Numberland; Ella Parry-Davies on Russian illustrators; Andrew Sawyer on his typgraphic Alice; David Schaefer on his discovery of a 1928 Looking-Glass film reel; and Morton Cohen was interviewed by Edward Guiliano thirty years... [read full post]

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... [read full post]

Our Fall 2011 meeting was again at the marvelous Manhattan campus of the New York Institute of Technology, on Saturday, November 12. Speakers included Morton Cohen on Carroll’s epiphanies; Adriana Peliano, founder of the Lewis Carroll Society of Brazil, on the metamorphosis of Alice in illustrations and art; Alison Gopnik on her discovery of the Iffley Yew and how Dodgson’s real... [read full post]

The first day of our Spring 2011 meeting was on Saturday, April 16, at the headquarters of The Internet Archive in San Francisco. It included the playing of Alice Liddell’s accordion (fully restored), and talks by Sandor Burstein, Dr. Selwyn Goodacre from the LCS(UK), Brewster Kahle of The Internet Archive, Mark Burstein, and others. The next day,... [read full post]

We held our fall 2010 meeting in New York City at the New York Institute of Technology (16 West 61st Street, 11th floor) on Saturday, November 6th from 12-5:15 pm. Scheduled speakers included noted author Adam Gopnik, Carroll biographer Jenny Woolf, host and founding member Edward Guiliano, author (and Alice Liddell relative) C.M. Rubin, artist... [read full post]