tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5205983919839441002012-01-05T14:13:33.434-05:00This blog is for those of us wishing we could attend a JASNA meeting every day. If you would like to discuss a book, plan an outing, or simply exercise your powers of conversation, please join us.meep mopenoreply@blogger.comBlogger81100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-520598391983944100.post-40188031647761573252011-12-11T11:53:00.000-05:002011-12-19T15:12:25.400-05:00

Who could resist an English Country Dance to celebrate Jane Austen’s birthday? Not our North Coast group, who gathered at the Twinsburg library. Including our guests, there were 36 present to frolic to live music provided by Toad in the Hole, and cake provided by our hospitality coordinator Caroline Chesebrough. Local English Dance caller Carol Kopp paid us a return visit to call the dance

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Attendees met at President Garfield's monument at Lakeview Cemetery at 10am to begin the walking tour. We were guided through some of the best and most interesting monuments in the cemetery, and instructed in the various symbols and meanings of the different styles of monuments. Our tour included the interiors of the Garfield Monument as well as Wade Chapel, which is decorated with a fabulous

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Lakeview Cemetery Tour Conference at Nighttown

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Our December observance of Jane Austen's birthday was postponed this year due to a rather nasty snow storm. (One that would make even Mr John Knightley tremble!) However, the promise of cake lured us once again to our favorite meeting place, the Solon Library, for a belated birthday celebration and a fabulous presentation on Sense & Sensibility by member Charla Coatoam. Unlike Marianne, we were

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Cross-Posted from Jane Austen Books I'm curious about something - how did you "meet" Jane Austen? And how has she changed your life? For my sister and I, her acquaintance was a birthright. As soon as we were old enough to listen, my mother began reading us her favorite Austen novels. When we were old enough to watch the movie without it spoiling our enjoyment of the book, we watched the

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Friday and Saturday were a blur of sales and breakout sessions! Beth and I were able to get away to see Juliette Wells' talk on "Imagining Jane and Cassandra." She compared modern interpretations of the relationship between Jane and her beloved older sister. Beth and I were sitting next to each other, as usual, scribbling notes to each other in the margins of our pads ("that was funny!" or "I

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Today we had the pleasure of selling our books, instead of the grueling task of unloading them from our truck and setting them out on our tables. From our stations in the Regency Emporium, we met many Janeites who were just as thrilled as we were to be here in Philadelphia. Attendees who were already registered today had the option to take a tour of Winterthur, the estate of Henry Francis du Pont

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The members of JASNA Ohio North Coast had "a very fine day for Box Hill; and all the other outward circumstances of arrangement, accommodation, and punctuality, were in favour of a pleasant party."The food was excellent, and our two newest members, Kim and Melinda, contributed fruits so fine that they would have graced even Pemberley's tables.We took great delight in quizzing our friends with our

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