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Banner Image: Members' Reading Room, 2012.
Members Only Sale and Reception Friday June 1, 5:00-7:00PM
Contact Susan Gallo at sgallo@PhilaAthenaeum.org or 215-925-2688 to RSVP for the members only event.
Regular Book Sale Hours Saturday, June 2, 11:00AM-3:00PM Mon-Fri, June 4-8, 10:00AM-4:00PM
Book
Donations: If you would like to
donate books to the book sale please call 215-925-2688 to arrange a time
to drop them off. We cannot pick up book donations for the book
sale.
There are four author lectures and book signings during Literary May. Wednesday, May 2, 5:30PM Wednesday, May 9, 5:30PM Wednesday, May 16, 5:30PM Friday, May 18, 3:30PM These events are free for Athenaeum
Members. Contact
Susan Gallo at sgallo@PhilaAthenaeum.org
or 215-925-2688 to RSVP. All others $10. For more
information about these events or to pay online, click
here. Workshop with Ejner Jensen, Ph.D.
May 7, 2012, 4:00-5:30PM
Current Exhibition
The exhibition closes May 18th, but there is now an online version on the Athenaeum website. Click here to enter the online exhibition. 
Capitol Dome Construction, May 15, 1861. T. U. Walter Collection, The Athenaeum of Philadelphia. Member News
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The
Athenaeum will hold a used book sale the first week of June. It
will begin with a special members only event.
Robert Browning and William Shakespeare:
The Tempest and Its After-life in Poetry 
Society Hill’s 34th Annual Open House and Garden Tour will take place on Sunday, May 20, 2012, from 1 to 5 PM. Tickets are now on sale for this most enjoyable, self-guided tour of over ten private homes and gardens in one of our nation’s most historic neighborhoods. Imagine walking on the same brick sidewalks frequented by Thomas Jefferson and Benjamin Franklin!
A
reminder that the final gallery talk on the current exhibition Elegant
Things & Vile Uses: The Civil War and the United States Capitol
Building will take place on May 4th at 5:30PM. The talk will be
given by Bruce Laverty, Curator of Architecture. This event is free
to all. Contact
Susan Gallo at 
On May 12th,
Athenaeum Member Ted Robb will be the recipient of the Pomfret School Alumni Award, the highest award the School Alumni Association bestows upon alumni who have achieved distinction in their chosen professions and have demonstrated ongoing interest, loyalty, and commitment to the school. In 2011 the Alumni Award went to Ridley Pearson, author of
Never Look Back (1985).
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