Forum on the Hill
The Forum on the Hill provides opportunities for the community to engage with speakers once a month, (September- June) who discuss current topics. Join the Conversations! Presented both in person at 12:30pm in Widener Hall and then recorded and posted online here the next day. *Bring a brown bag lunch to enjoy, and we serve light snacks, water, and coffee starting at Noon.
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February 13
Beth Kephart
My Life in Paper
Paper both shapes and defines us. Baby books, diaries, sewing patterns, diplomas, resumes, letters, death certificates—we find our stories in them. My Life in Paper is Beth Kephart’s memoiristic exploration of the paper legacies we forge and leave. Kephart’s obsession with paper began in the wake of her father’s death, when she began to handcraft books and make and marble paper in his memory. But it was when she read My Life with Paper, an autobiography by the late renowned paper hunter and historian Dard Hunter, that she felt she had found a kindred spirit, someone to whom she might address a series of one-sided letters about life and how we live it. This talk will be accompanied by a reading from My Life in Paper: Adventures in Ephemera.
Beth Kephart, a National Book Award finalist is the award-winning author of three-dozen books, a paper artist, and a teacher of memoir. She will be reflecting on the role that paper—doilies, sewing patterns, wills, library cards, and more—shape and hold our lives. Beth writes and posts her art each week on her Sub stack, The Hush and the Howl.
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