Planting a seed with Nicholas Basbanes.
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Author of On Paper: The Everything of Its Two-Thousand-Year-History, Nicholas Basbanes visited Columbia College Chicago's Center for Book & Paper Arts to ceremoniously plant the first seeds of the 2014 in the Papermaker's Garden and lecture on his newest book. On Paper is one of the only comprehensive paper making histories to be written since Dard Hunter wrote the famous Papermaking: The History and Technique of an Ancient Craft, more than 60 years ago.
If the weather will stop teasing us, it will soon be time to plant, and I feel honored that Basbanes came to visit the garden as it embarks on its 3rd planting season.
Also to note, the garden has been hosting notable artist Matthew Hoffman's Let's Be Human to Each Other since Feb. 2014, the first public art piece to be displayed at the Papermaker's Garden.
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Clifton Meador looks on...
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April Sheridan and I
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