This year, to celebrate such a significant anniversary and to learn about editing, the club invited a member's daughter, Nan Graham to speak to them. The typical monthly meeting is at a member's house over a light lunch. Outside of book club, Barbara's reading is eclectic but often associated with her stages and interests in life. The Elsners' house is an international stop for world famous people. Barbara admits she had no idea when they purchased it what a stage she would enter.
Architects drop in both announced and unannounced.
It's Santiago Calatrava. One of her most memorable visitors, primarily because of his imperious personality, was John Nicholas Brown, the director of the National Museum in Washington. Through the house, she has also become friends with Denise Scott Brown, an internationally renowned architect from Philadelphia. At the funeral, she talked with their daughter.