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Mar. 21st, 2006 11:48 amJust sent this press release off to church secretary for copying...
October event offers intimate view into Emily Dickinson’s world
AMHERST, MASS – Admirers of America’s most enigmatic poet are invited to immerse themselves in her work and her life this autumn as part of the 2006 Emily Dickinson’s World bed-and-breakfast weekend, Friday, October 13 – Sunday, October 15.
This tenth weekend of private tours, lectures, poetry and music takes place at the height of New England’s famed fall foliage season—a time when, in Dickinson’s words, “The Maple wears a gayer scarf / The field a scarlet gown.”
The cost of the educational weekend, $360 per person, includes two nights’ lodgings, four meals and all admissions. Bed and breakfast are provided by members of the Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst, who open their homes to participants as part of the UU Society’s biennial fundraising event.
The weekend will begin Friday evening with dinner and a keynote address by Jane Donahue Eberwein on “Emily Dickinson as Reader’s Friend.” Eberwein, Distinguished Professor of English at Michigan’s Oakland University, is author of Dickinson: Strategies of Limitation, and editor of An Emily Dickinson Encyclopedia. For the first time, Friday’s events will take place in the elegant Victorian mansion of Leonard M. Hills, a friend of the Dickinson family and the poet’s next-door neighbor.
On Saturday, participants will visit the Homestead, where the poet was born in 1830 and where she spent most of her life; the Evergreens, home of her brother Austin and his wife Susan; and other sites in the Emily Dickinson Historic District, including the poet’s grave. Afterward, there will be a discussion of Dickinson’s poetry over a Victorian tea at the Amherst History Museum.
Saturday evening’s entertainment will include a performance by actress D’arcy Dersham of William Luce’s “The Belle of Amherst,” and Dickinson poetry set to music.
Sunday morning, Dickinson scholar Harrison Gregg will conclude the weekend with his address, “The Show is not the Show—Emily Dickinson as Satirist.”
Other attractions participants may wish to visit in the Amherst area include Historic Deerfield, the Porter-Phelps-Huntington Museum, the Eric Carle Museum of Picture Book Art, the National Yiddish Book Center, and Five College museums and musical offerings.
For a brochure and registration materials, write to the Unitarian Universalist Society of Amherst at P.O. Box 502, Amherst, MA 01004; phone 413-253-2848, ext. 1; e-mail a request to unitar@crocker.com; or visit http://users.crocker.com/~unitar
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