You are invited to a meeting of the Wine Librarians Association on Thursday, October 28, 2004, at California Poly Pomona. Where else can you learn about the neglected history of wine in Southern California, explore a fascinating sub-genre of librarianship, and get a great meal and wine, for free. Hurry, the dinner slots will probably fill up fast.
Schedule:
1-3pm - Join students in the Wine Education Auditorium to hear presentations by
Nina Wemyss on Wine, Art and Civilization, and Tom Pinney, editor of the Brady
Book on Roy Brady, an undiscovered, followed by a wine tasting and opportunity
to purchase The Brady Book.
3-4pm - Visit the University Library Special Collections Room to explore the Wine Industry Collection and view exhibits featuring the history of wine in Southern California.
4-6pm - Wine Librarians Meeting (held in the Board Room adjacent to the Wine Education Auditorium). This might be of interest to students and others who would like to find out about professional concerns of a group of librarians who manage focused special collections. Or you might opt to skip this section, and explore the campus or environs.
6-8pm - Enjoy an elegant dinner with your colleagues in the President's Dining Room at The Restaurant at Kellogg Ranch (part of Collins School of Hospitality Management)
Please R.S.V.P. to Danette Cook Adamson at 909-869-3109 or
dcadamson@csupomona.edu
NOTE: Dinner seating is limited and reservations must be made in advance with
Danette.
More information on Wine Librarians and the program. The Wine Librarians Association, a group of librarians, book lovers, book collectors, historians and booksellers who have a professional or amateur interest in wine books, began about ten years ago. Tammy Lau, Librarian Special Collections, CSU Fresno, got the ball rolling. The membership includes librarians from UC Davis, Sonoma State University, the Napa Valley Wine Library, the Sonoma County Wine Library, The Wine Institute Library, Cornell University and Cal Poly Pomona. Our membership also includes authors, like Tom Pinney, book collectors like Gail Unzelman, book sellers like Wine Appreciation Guild and others. We have met in Napa, Sonoma, Davis, Fresno, San Francisco over the years. This is the first meeting in Southern California, and librarian Danette Cooke-Adamson has gone all out to put together a stellar program.
Nina Wemyss, historian, scholar and lecturer, will present a talk illustrated with slides on "Wine, Art and Civilization." For a number of years Nina gained renown in her roles as Wine Historian, Lecturer and Cultural Ambassador for the Robert Mondavi Winery. She served as the featured wine historian for the History Channel's "A Brief History of Wine." She has given lectures at American Museum of Natural History in New York, the Art Institute of Chicago, Peabody Museum of Natural History, for the Alumni Associations of Yale University, Stanford and Berkeley, to name but a few. Her presentation comprises a joyous overview of the marriage between the history and art inspired by wine since the ancients. Nina will talk about and show images depicting wine's role in the Mediterranean cultures -- the Egyptian, Greek and Roman world, where deities, myths, and art testified to wine's importance. The ritual of communion, central to Christianity, continues as a motif through the Middle Ages and the Renaissance. She will show how wine endured in its cultural influence in a passionate succession from Jefferson and other Enlightenment figures through the Romantics and on into Modern and Post Modern Art.
Professor and author Tom Pinney, (Professor Emeritius, English Department, Pomona College, and author, A History of Wine in America from the Beginning to Prohibition, UC Press, 1989) will talk about Roy Brady. Roy Brady was a fascinating man who lived much of his life in Northridge, earned his living as both a mathematics professor and a systems analyst, devoted himself to being a true student of wine. He wrote expertly and with wit on wine from the 1950's through the 1990's, and ammassed one of the great collections of wine books in the world and sold it to CSU Fresno in 1968. After Roy Brady's death in 1998. Tom Pinney largely as a labor of love, took Roy's archive of unpublished writings on wine and edited into what became the Brady Book. The Brady Book has just been published by the Wine Librarians Association with funding from Darryl Corti, and copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event. The book displays Roy's Ulysses spirit in experiencing and tasting wine, writing about it and collecting wine books. Handsome production values with tipped in wine labels and beauthiful prose profiles of the wine scene in both Southern and Northern California from the 50's onward make this book a treasure.
Accommodations:
On-Campus: Kellogg West Conference & Lodge Reservations: 800-KWEST-76
909-869-2222 http://www.kelloggwest.org/
Within a few blocks: Shilo - Pomona Hilltop Suites Hotel
http://www.shiloinns.com/California/pomona_hilltop.html 909-598-7666
Shilo - Pomona Hotel 909-598-0073
http://www.shiloinns.com/California/pomona_hotel.html
SHILO INNS RESERVATIONS, call toll-free from U.S.A. & Canada 1-800-222-2244
Airport: Ontario International Airport (20 minutes east of campus using the I-10 freeway)
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Other Attractions: Great shopping and dining opportunities await you at many local venues, including the vast Ontario Mills Center, just 30 minutes east of campus. Or, choose to continue south 90 minutes to explore Temecula's beautiful wine country, the heart of California's South Coast wine region. Here you will find lush vineyards and 19 wineries, along with the Old Town district that blends historic buildings with over 640 antique dealers, unique shopping, and restaurants.