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2023 Autumn Symposium “Between Earth and Sky”

March 21, 2023 in Manuscript Studies, RGME Symposia, Uncategorized

2023 Autumn Symposium
“Between Earth and Sky”

Part 2 of 2 in the
2023 Spring and Autumn Symposia
on “Materials & Access”

Saturday 21 October 2023
9:30 am – 5:00 pm EDT (GMT-4) by Zoom

[Posted on 21 March 2023, with updates]

For 2023, the Year’s Theme for the Research Group is “Materials & Access”.

The RGME continues with its pair of Symposia for 2023, continuing its expanded pattern of paired day-long virtual Spring and Autumn Symposia launched in 2022.

"Centered". Photograph Ⓒ 2014 Mildred Budny. Image of Dew at the center of Sedum.

“Centered”. Photograph Ⓒ 2014 Mildred Budny.

This year, the Spring and Autumn Symposia will take place by Zoom respectively on:

  • Saturday, 25 March 2023
  • Saturday 21 October 2023 (“The Sweetest Day” 2023)

Each Symposium in the pair explores a wide range of spheres, subjects, case-studies, and issues connected with the duality of Materials of many kinds and varieties of Access to them.

Part 1, “From the Ground Up”, explored the terrain for Materials and Access in a wide variety of fields.

Part 2, “Between Earth and Sky”, examines the conditions and opportunities for Materials and Access in the world as we might know it, both in the Here and Now and beyond.

1 of 2.  2023 Spring Symposium,
with a Pre-Symposium of Lightning Talks

Pre-Symposium:  “Intrepid Borders” (24 March 2023)

Spring Symposium:  “From the Ground Up” (25 March 2023)

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS. W.148, folio 33v, bottom right, with fighting creatures. Image via Creative Commons.

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS. W.148, folio 33v, bottom right. Image via Creative Commons.

The Spring Symposium acquired a companion event, in the form of a half-day virtual Pre-Symposium with Lightning Talks selected from responses to a Call for Proposals and organized by Katharine C. Chandler, Jennifer Larson, and Jessica L. Savage.

Information about these companion events, which took place on Friday afternoon 24 March and all day Saturday 25 March 2023:

  • 2023 Spring Pre-Symposium on “Intrepid Borders”
  • 2023 Spring Symposium “From the Ground Up”
Photograph of the stems and white blooms of Snowdrops emerging from a patch of bare ground in the sunlight. Photograph Ⓒ Mildred Budny.

The blooms of Snowdrops emerging “From the Ground Up”. Photograph Ⓒ Mildred Budny.

The 2023 Spring Pre-Symposium/Symposium Booklet records the Program for both events and the Abstracts for their Presentations, with Illustrations.  The digital version can be downloaded freely here in two formats, for your printing facilities and preferences.

  • Consecutive Pages (quarto size, or 8 1/2″ × 11″ sheets)
    consecutive pages
  • Foldable Booklet (11″ × 17″ sheets), to be folded in half
    foldable booklet

2 of 2.  2023 Autumn Symposium:
“Between Earth and Sky”

Saturday 21 October 2023 by Zoom

Ravenna, Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, Ceiling Mosaic. Photo: Petar Milošević / CC BY-SA, Wikipedia.

Grounded in the experiences and expertise of our fields of study, our 2023 Autumn Symposium might take notice of view-points across time and place which can inform and enlighten our explorations of materials, memory aids, and forms of understanding transmitted from the past.

Note on the Image

With an eye toward the heavens, a visitor looking upward in the late-antique Mausoleum of Galla Placidia, created for an empress in Ravenna, Italy, can glimpse the mosaic ceiling patterned with star-studded and celestial skies of deep blue.

Photograph by Petar Milošević, via CC BY-SA License via Wikipedia.

Participants

Participants for the 2023 Autumn Symposium, variously as Presenters, Respondents, Presiders, Moderators, and Advisers, include (in alphabetical order):

  • Phillip A. Bernhardt-House, Mildred Budny, Barbara Williams Ellertson, Hannah Goeselt, Justin Hastings, Jennifer Larson, Laura Light, John McQuillen, Ann Pascoe-van-Zyl, Ronald Patkus, David Porreca, David W. Sorenson, Kathy Young, N. Kıvılcım Yavuz, and others.
2020 Symposium "From Cover to Cover" Poster 1

2020 Symposium Poster 1

Among them are Speakers who now reprise or offer a variant on the papers which they planned for the RGME 2020 Spring Symposium in person at Princeton University.  Their illustrated Abstracts for that cancelled event describe the intentions then.  See 2020 Spring Symposium (Save the Date) and the published Symposium Booklet, available as a pdf laid out

  • in consecutive pages,
  • or as foldable booklet.

A similar Symposium Booklet is planned for the 2023 Autumn Symposium.

For the Preliminary Program for the 2023 Autumn Symposium, see below.  As it takes fuller shape, its details will appear here.  For an e-version of the companion Symposium Booklet, see below.

Full-length figure of Philosophy at the front of Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy in a 10th-Century Anglo-Saxon copy.

Cambridge, Trinity College, MS O.3.7, fol. 1r. Frontispiece image of Philosophy Personnified for Boethius, De consolatione philosophiae, with commentary. Image via CC 4.0 International License, via https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.3.7

A ‘Poster Person’

As a beacon for the event, we reflect on the majestic standing figure of Lady Philosophy appearing as a frontispiece in a Late Anglo-Saxon manuscript.  Standing upright with a steady frontal gaze, wrapped in flowing garments, she rests her feet upon hilly ground, while she holds up to the sides an elongated book in one hand and a foliate scepter in the other.  This is a favorite book and image.

Preliminary Program

(For Registration, see below.)

Speakers, Respondents, and Presiders for the event include the Director and Associates of the RGME as well as others.

Recording. We will record the event for our records, also with the aim of making the recording available for viewing afterward, subject to processing and permission.

Please watch this space for updates.

Schedule and List of Presentations
(the order may vary)

Full Day:  9:30 am to 5:00 pm EDT (GMT-4) with breaks

Morning

Session 1. “Sources, Resources, and Encounters”
9:30–11:15 am EDT (GMT-4)

Presider: Jennifer Larson (Classics Department, Kent State University)

  • Mildred Budny (Director, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)
    “Opening Remarks”
  • Kathryn Young (University Archivist / Curator of Rare Books, Loyola University Chicago)
    and
    Justin Hastings
    (Assistant Teaching Professor, Department of English, Loyola University Maryland)
    “Crowning a King, Interpreting Society, and Scaring the Kids:
    First-Year Composition Students Meet the Archives and Special Collections”
  • Ronald Patkus (Head of Special Collections and College Historian, Adjunct Associate Professor of History on the Frederick Weyerhaeuser Chair, Vassar College)
    “Preview of 2024 RGME Spring Symposium at Vassar College”
    — April 2024 (hybrid):
    “Between Past and Future:
    Building Bridges between Special Collections and Teaching for the Liberal Arts”

London, British Library, Cotton MS Julius A. VI, fol. 4v, detail.

Lunch Break. 11:15 am – 12:30 pm EDT (GMT-4)

Afternoon

Session 2. “By Land and By Sea”
12:30-2:00 pm EDT (GMT-4)

Presider: Hannah Goeselt (Library, Massachusetts Historical Society, Boston)

  • Ann Pascoe-van-Zyl (Ph.D. Candidate, Department of English, Trinity College Dublin)
    “Affective Landscape Imagery in the Old English Psalms and the Old English Elegies”
  • Eleanor Congdon (Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, Youngstown State University, Ohio)
    “Letters to Ambrogio Malipiero, a Venetian Vice Consul in Syria during the 1480s​“
  • David Porreca (Department of Classical Studies, University of Waterloo, Kitchener, Ontario)
    “An Introduction to the Edgar William Pyke Coin Collection at the University of Waterloo”
  • David W. Sorenson (Allen G. Berman, Professional Numismatist)
    “Response:  Collecting and Studying Coins as Records of History” [if David’s variable work timetable permits him to attend]

Break. 2:00–2:30 pm EDT

Session 3. “Having a Look, Looking Anew, and Looking Forward”
2:30–4:00 pm EDT

Presider: Jessica L. Savage (Art History Specialist, Index of Medieval Art, Princeton University)

  • Laura Light (Director and Senior Specialist, Text Manuscripts, Les Enluminures, Chicago, New York, and Paris)
    “Do Manuscript Descriptions Influence Scholarship?
    The Case of Thirteenth-Century Latin Bibles”
  • John T. McQuillen (Associate Curator, Printed Books and Bindings, Morgan Library and Museum, New York)
    “Ars moriendi Blockbooks: What Can Watermarks in Paper Tell Us?”
  • Barbara Williams Ellertson (The BASIRA Project: Books as Symbols in Renaissance Art and Research Associate of the Schoenberg Institute for Manuscript Studies, University of Pennsylvania Libraries, Philadelphia)
    “A Preview of a new Open Access Resource:  Searching the BASIRA Project Database”

Break. 4:00–4:30 pm EDT

Presider: David Porreca

Session 4. “Accessing Materials / Bridging Time and Place”
4:30–5:00 pm EDT (GMT-4)

  • Phillip Bernhardt-House (Academic Vagabond)
    “A Few Reflections on Materials and Their Access:
    Accessibility Concerns and Scholarship”

  • Mildred Budny
    Concluding Remarks:
    “From ‘Materials and Access’ in 2023 to ‘Bridges’ in 2024:
    Accomplishments and Prospects for an Anniversary Year”

2023 Autumn Symposium Booklet Cover.

The Illustrated Symposium Booklet

As the Symposium approaches, the illustrated Symposium Booklet becomes ready.

Our practice is to make the illustrated Symposium Booklet available close to the time of the event, for distribution in printed and digital formats.  The e-version (in pdf format) will be downloadable in two formats:

  • as consecutive pages.
  • as foldable booklet.

Registration for the 2023 Autumn Symposium

To register for the event, visit the RGME Eventbrite Collection.

  • RGME Events on Eventbrite.
  • 2023 Autumn Symposium Tickets.
    General Admission
    or
    Admission with Voluntary Donation

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  • Donations and Contributions.

We thank you for your interest and support.

More Information and Updates

Watch this space for more information as it unfolds.

Questions?  Ask [email protected].

2023 RGME Events

Other events are planned for the Year.  See

  • “The Research Group Speaks”: The Series

The next episode for this online series is Episode 14 on Sunday 19 November 2023
2:00-2:30 pm EST (GMT-5) by Zoom.  See

  • Episode 14: Translating the Latin Hermetica by Committee

2024 RGME Events for an Anniversary Year

Announcements of our events planned for 2024 are coming soon.  Some will be announced for the 2023 Autumn Symposium.  They include:

  • 2024 Spring Symposium at Vassar College:
    “Between Past and Future:
    Building Bridges between Special Collections and Teaching for the Liberal Arts”.

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2023 Spring Symposium: “From the Ground Up”

January 12, 2023 in Conference, Conference Announcement, Manuscript Studies, RGME Symposia

Photograph of the stems and white blooms of Snowdrops emerging from a patch of bare ground in the sunlight. Photograph Ⓒ Mildred Budny.

“From the Ground Up”. Photograph Ⓒ Mildred Budny.

2023 Spring Symposium
“From the Ground Up”

Part 1 of 2 in the
2023 Spring and Autumn Symposia
on “Materials & Access”

[Posted on 12 January 2023 , with updates]

With its chosen Theme of “Materials & Access” for the Year 2023, the Research Group prepares a pair of Symposia, continuing its expanded pattern of paired day-long virtual Spring and Autumn Symposia launched in 2022.   Until then, RGME Symposia had occurred on occasion at one per year, sometimes annually and sometimes at intervals.  Whereas previously they occurred in person, at various centers (like the 2020 Spring Symposium, which had to be cancelled on account of lockdown for Covid), the Symposia in 2022 and 2023 take place online by Zoom.

This year, the Spring and Autumn Symposia will take place by Zoom on:

  • Saturday, 25 March 2023
  • Saturday 21 October 2023 (“The Sweetest Day” 2023)

And There’s More

In a further expansion, the 2023 Spring Symposium will be preceded by a half-day Pre-Symposium which presents a series of Lightning Talks.  They will emerge from the Call for Proposals, issued on 10 January 2023, with a deadline of 12 February 2023.

  • 2023 Pre-Symposium Call for Papers: “Intrepid Borders” Lightning Talks.

Following that deadline, the Program of Talks for the Pre-Symposium has been selected and is now announced.

  • 2023 ‘Pre-Symposium’ on “Intrepid Borders”

The New Ensemble:  Pre-Symposium and Symposium

This year, with the Theme of “Materials and Access”, we not only prepare a pair of Symposia, but also extend the Spring Symposium with an accompanying ‘Pre-Symposium’ of Lightning Talks on the afternoon before. Selected through a Call for Proposals, these Talks explore the challenges of “Intrepid Borders: Marginalia in Medieval and Early Modern Books”. The plan for such sessions, their subject, the Call for Proposals, and the selected Program for the Lightning Talks are due to the initiative, enthusiasm, and organizational expertise of Jessica L. Savage and her co-organizers Katharine C. Chandler and Jenifer Larson. The fresh combination of exploratory Lightning Talks on Friday and the invited Symposium Presentations on Saturday opens our Symposia more widely.

The extended Symposium presents new and cumulative work, with reports of discoveries, work-in-progress, and collaborative projects. Some build upon work presented for the Symposia in 2022 (2022 Spring Symposium on “Structures of Knowledge” and 2022 Autumn Symposium on “Supports for Knowledge”).

We consider evidence from the medieval to modern periods and across a wide geographical, historical, and cultural range, both Western (Europe and North America) and non-Western (Ethiopia, Yemen, and Western India). From multiple centers, the Symposium plus Pre-Symposium gathers specialists, teachers, students, collectors, and others engaged or interested in activities relating to manuscripts, printed books, other media, and mixtures of them.

Program Booklet

To accompany the event and celebrate its contributors, we publish a combined Pre-Symposium/Symposium Program Booklet, with Abstracts of Presentations and companion Images.  See below for information how to receive a copy in print or by download on this site.

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2023 half-day Pre-Symposium and full-day Symposium (online)

I.   “Pre-Symposium of Lightning Talks” on Friday afternoon 24 March 2023

“Intrepid Borders:
Marginalia in Medieval Manuscripts and Early Modern Books”

A Virtual Lightning Talks / Half-Day Symposium
of the Research Group on Manuscript Evidence

Co-Organized by Katharine C. Chandler, Jennifer Larson, and Jessica L. Savage

2023 RGME ‘Pre-Symposium’ on “Intrepid Borders”

Registration for this event is required, and can be made through its portal:

  • https://www.eventbrite.com/e/intrepid-borders-pre-symposium-for-2023-spring-symposium-tickets-512253994487

Baltimore, Walters Art Museum, MS. W.148, folio 33v, bottom. Image via Creative Commons.

II.   Symposium on Saturday 25 March 2023

“From the Ground Up”

Following the models of the 2022 Spring and Autumn Symposia, the 2023 Spring and Autumn Symposia will showcase some of our ongoing series of subjects, as well as introduce new ones.  We explore challenges and opportunities for approaching and accessing materials of many kinds in the history, production, transmission, study, and display of manuscripts and books, across time and place.

Registration for this event can be made through its portal:

  • 2023 RGME Spring Symposium “From the Ground Up”

Speakers, Respondents, Presiders, and Moderators (in alphabetical order):

  • Linde M. Brocato, Mildred Budny, Katharine C. Chandler, Hannah Goeselt, Justin Hastings, Zoey Kambour, Atria A. Larson, Jennifer Larson, Ann Pascoe-van Zyl, Ronald Patkus, Jaclyn Reed, David W. Sorenson, and others.

Occasion:

This Symposium occurs on 25 March, a day for, among other celebrations, the liturgical Feast of the Annunciation.  (See below.)  This manuscript image represents the decisive event with a rich interior, landscape exterior and inhabited foliage in the margins, and bookish features such as a speech scroll and an opened book on a table at the back.

Within a foliate border, the verse of Psalm 50:17 (Domine labia mea aperies et os meum annuntiatbit laudem tuam) fits between a framed image of the Annunciation above, with an opened book on a lectern and and inscribed unrolled scroll. The foliate border includes an ‘inhabited’ scrolling stem at the right, with angels, humans, and birds; and a garden scene below, where human couples play musical instruments and backgammon.

Baltimore, The Walters Art Museum, MS M.269, folio 16r. Book of Hours, France, circa 1460. Image courtesy The Walters Art Museum by CC0 License via https://www.thedigitalwalters.org/Data/WaltersManuscripts/html/W269/.

Program

Saturday 25 March 2023

9:30 am – 5:00 pm EDT (GMT-4) online by Zoom
with registration through Eventbrite
via 2023 RGME Spring Symposium “From the Ground Up”

Session 1.  “Laying the Groundwork”
9:30 – 11:00 am EDT (GMT -4)

Welcome and Introduction

Mildred Budny (Director, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)

Opening Keynote Presentation

Linde M. Brocato (Cataloging & Metadata Librarian, University of Miami Libraries)
“Grounding the Work, Making the Book”

Presider:  Mildred Budny

Coffee Break
11:15 – 11:30 am EDT

Session 2.  “The Lay of the Land”
11:30 am – 1:00 pm EDT

Presider:  Jennifer Larson (Department of Classics, Kent State University)

Ann Pascoe-Van Zyl (School of English, Trinity College, Dublin)
“Landscape and the Mind in Exile: Four Old English Elegies”

Justin Hastings (The John Dickinson Writings Project, University of Delaware)
“The Horatian Ground of John Dickinson’s Farmer Persona”

Hannah Goeselt (Library and Information Science (MS): Cultural Heritage Informatics, Simmons University, Boston)
      and
Zoey Kambour (Post Graduate Fellow in European & American Art at the Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art at the    University of Oregon)
“Where Are We Now?  Informal Updates since Last Year’s RGME Symposia”

Lunch Break
1:00 – 1:45 pm EDT

Session 3.  “Materials & Margins”
1:45 – 3:15 pm EDT

Presider:  Jaclyn Reed (Department of English and Writing Studies, University of Western Ontario)

Atria A. Larson (Associate Professor of Medieval Christianity, Saint Louis University)
“Gallery of Glosses:
An NEH-Funded Digital Humanities Project that Cultivates Scholarly Attention to Manuscript Margins”

David W. Sorenson (Allen G. Berman, Professional Numismatist)
“Examples of Paleography and Paper in dated Jain Manuscripts of the 15th through 19th Centuries”

Private Collection, Jain manuscript on paper, dated Vikrama Samvat (VS) 1552 = AD 1496 by colophon.

Private Collection, Jain manuscript on paper, dated Vikrama Samvat (VS) 1552 = AD 1496 by colophon.

Tea Break
3:15 – 3:30 pm EDT

Session 4.  “The Living Library (Part III):
Manuscripts & Collections as Sources for Teaching & Research”
3:30 – 5:00 pm EDT

Presider:  Justin Hastings

Ronald Patkus (Head of Special Collections
          and Adjunct Associate Professor of History on the Frederick Weyerhaeuser Chair, Vassar College)
“Nicholas B. Scheetz’s Medieval and Renaissance Manuscripts at Vassar:
A Teaching Collection for a Teaching Collection”

Katharine C. Chandler (Special Collections and Serials Cataloger, University of Arkansas Libraries)
“Sister Manuscripts from the Carthusian Monastery of Chartreuse de Champmol”

Concluding Remarks:

Mildred Budny (Director, Research Group on Manuscript Evidence)
“Material Grounds for  Teaching, Study, and Varieties of Access”

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In keeping with the 2023 Theme of “Materials & Access” and the focus of attention in the Spring Symposium “From the Ground Up”, we may celebrate the emergence of fresh shoots and blooms as Winter turns to Spring, and the earth revives its cycle of growth and renewal.

We note that the date selected for this Spring Symposium, 25 March, represents the celebration of, among other things, the Feast of the Annunciation in the Christian liturgical calendar and the occurrence of the spring (or vernal) equinox (see also March equinox.

Image of illumination of earth by the sun on the Spring or Autumn Equinox (Vernal and Autumnal)

Depiction of the llumination of Earth by the Sun on the Spring or Autumn Equinox (Vernal and Autumnal) Image by Przemyslaw “Blueshade” Idzkiewicz via cc-by-sa license.

This is the second time that a RGME Spring Symposium included the date of 25 March in its events stretching over more than one day.  See the 2012 Symposium on “Words and Deeds” Report for our Symposium on 25–26 March 2016 at Princeton University.

We thank the contributors and advisers for help in organizing this event, as well as its new companion the Pre-Symposium.

  • 2023 RGME ‘Pre-Symposium’ on “Intrepid Borders”
  • 2023-spring-symposium-from-the-ground-up (You are Here)

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Registration

Registration for the Pre-Symposium and the Spring Symposium is required for each event.

Registration for these events can be made through their portals:

  • “Intrepid Borders” Pre-Symposium for 2023 Spring Symposium
  • 2023 RGME Spring Symposium “From the Ground Up”
Photograph of the stems and white blooms of Snowdrops emerging from a patch of bare ground in the sunlight. Photograph Ⓒ Mildred Budny.

The blooms of Snowdrops emerging “From the Ground Up”. Photograph Ⓒ Mildred Budny.

The Program Booklet

Printed copies of the 2023 Spring Symposium Program Booklet can be distributed on request to participants and others.  If you wish a printed copy, please contact please contact [email protected] and provide your mailing address.

The digital version can be downloaded freely here.  We provide two formats, or ‘flavors’, of the digital Program Booklet, in consecutive pages and as a foldable booklet.  The choice depends upon your printing facilities and preferences.  Experience shows that the choice can be helpful.

  • Consecutive Pages (quarto size, or 8 1/2″ × 11″ sheets)
    consecutive pages
  • Foldable Booklet (11″ × 17″ sheets), to be folded in half, producing a nested group of bifolia
    foldable booklet

Please note that some images are included in the booklet through the License or Contract stipulating their reproduction for this publication alone.  We ask you to respect these conditions.

We thank the contributors, private collectors, and institutions for the images and the permission to reproduce them.  We wish also to extend thanks to these individuals, for their extra efforts in this quest:  Ágnes Kelecsényi and Judit Jabloknay of the Library of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences; and Graham Fereday and Gary Stringer of the Digital Humanities – Library and Culture Services of the University of Exeter; Exeter Cathedral Library.

Thanks also are due to the authors, photographers, owners and providers of photographs, organizers, compilers, editors, copy-editors, images and permissions researcher, typesetter, layout designer, proof-readers, printer, web-editor, and others.

That most of these tasks required for producing and publishing the booklet are carried out — and to the level of proficiency manifested on the pages — by one or two volunteers is a tribute to the collegial collaboration and dedication of our nonprofit educational organization, which has no paid staff whatsoever, and which has a shoestring budget.  That budget is itself the product almost entirely of the generosity of volunteer donations, year by year.

These results can be accomplished mostly because of the pro-bono donations by so many contributors, who help to make the events possible, and for whom we give steady thanks.

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2023 RGME Events

Other Events are planned for the Year.  See

  • “The Research Group Speaks”: The Series
  • 2023 International Congress on Medieval Studies: Program for Thursday 11 to Saturday 13 May 2023
  • 2023 Autumn Symposium “Between Earth and Sky”
    Registration here: 2023 Autumn Symposium Tickets for Saturday 21 October 2023 by Zoom
Philosophy personified as female figure, wearing headveil and mantle, holding at both sides a raised book and a foliate-topped scepter. Frontispiece figure for Boethius' Consolation of Philosophy.

Trinity College, Cambridge, MS O.3.7, fol. 1r, top. Philosophy Personified, with book and scepter. Frontispiece figure for Boethius’ Consolation of Philosophy. Image via CC 4.0 International License, via https://mss-cat.trin.cam.ac.uk/Manuscript/O.3.7. Image cropped here to detail (unchanged otherwise).

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We look forward to hearing from you.

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"Centered". Photograph Ⓒ 2014 Mildred Budny. Image of Dew at the center of Sedum.

“Centered”. Photograph Ⓒ 2014 Mildred Budny.

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