A series of films will be shown at the MCA Theater and some will include a presentation from a scholar in a related field. He wrote several non-fiction books and was a writer for the Saturday Evening Post for many years. Join Dr. Rodney Nelson, long time Geneva resident, local historian and physician, as he shares his extensive research on the writer. The South Suburban Archaeological Society hosts Terrance J. Martin, Ph. D., who describe his work with a team of Russian archaeologists, historians, and scientists investigatins 12th to 14th Century cultural settlements in the Upper Don River Basin south of Moscow. He belongs to numerous professional organizations, has received many research grants, and his work has been widely published since 1975.
Admission is free and open to the public.
Ralph Fletcher Seymour was prominent in bringing the arts and crafts aesthetic of William Morris to the Midwest. Seymour published the works of many Illinois essayists, novelists, poets, and scholars under his personal imprint and through his fine printing operation called Alderbrink Press. Many of these editions were illustrated or decorated by Seymour, a master of both the Morris style and several modernist idioms. Join Dr. Paul F. Gehl, Director of the Wing Foundation on the History of Printing at the Newberry Library, for a slide lecture on Seymour's career as author, painter, illustrator, printer and publisher.