A Book Group Event 06-06-16

For almost forty years the Book Group I belong to has been sharing bookmarks when the members have traveled.  We search for and bring back these little jewels from all over the USA and the wider world.  Two of members decided to sort through and categorize all of their bookmarks and arrange to have displays in two places: Placentia City Library and California State University  - Fullerton.   Today we all went to see both displays and have lunch together.

At the Placentia Library the display cases are tucked back in a corner - not easily found. 

This section is bookmarks from around the world.  As our members have retired they have picked up their suitcases and traveled the globe.

More of the World travel section.

I've never heard bookmarks called Book Jewelry, but it makes sense and is a common description in the literature about books and bookmarks.  The four across the bottom are metal.

 

 

I am so impressed at the ingenuity they used in the displays.  This showing of flower bookmarks uses the plastic sticks that come with flower arrangements - with the little fork at the end.  And they are anchored in a potted plant. 

 

 

 At Cal State Fullerton the displays are in two flat cases and a large cube.   The overhead lights make photos almost impossible.   

There is an explanation of the display and a list of books read in the early years of the group.

In the large cube the bookmarks are on a display stand that is made of long clear filaments with clips at the ends.  The filaments are from a center source that drape like a fountain. [this is really hard to describe].  The ladies needed to choose things that weighed down the filaments so they wouldn't touch the inside of the cube.

 Here is one of the metal bookmarks clipped to the filament clip.

 

 

This selection is about the out-of-doors, many National Parks represented.

 

We will continue to meet and bring back bookmarks from our travels.  We read a wide variety of books.  This month the book is "Havana Heat" by Darryl Brock.  It is fiction about a deaf baseball player in the early 1900s.  Interesting, but heavy on baseball jargon.

 

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