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Dear Readers,
In this August issue, we present three really exciting museums: the newly renovated Folger Shakespeare Museum in Washington, D.C.; the City Lights Bookstore and the Beat Museum in San Francisco; and the newly-re-opened Maison Caillebotte on the outskirts of Paris, France.
Each of these museums highlight artistic and literary greats who shaped our culture from Shakespeare to the impressionists and the Beat Generation. Each organization serves as a particularly important hub of artistic and intellectual activity and are immensely popular in their respective communities.
Linda Cabasin writes about the newly renovated Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington, DC, that celebrated its reopening after an $80.5 million renovation and expansion, and is designed to help make the renowned research library a cultural destination that can engage everyone.
City Lights Bookstore traces its origins back to City Lights Magazine in 1952, originally named after Charlie Chaplin's film. Despite publishing only five issues, it laid the groundwork for America's first all-paperback bookstore the following year. Marybeth Bond writes about the legacy of the City Lights Bookstore and today's Beat Museum.
Barbara Noe Kennedy brings us to a newly re-opened museum dedicated to a painter who some call the greatest impressionist you never heard of. Gustave Caillebotte (1848–1894) not only was friends with Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, Pierre-Auguste Renoir, and others, but he painted and exhibited alongside these master artists and often collected their works. Now, his estate, the Maison Caillebotte, is open outside of Paris.
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with best wishes,
Victoria Larson
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