Celebrating Dictionary Day 2024

Name: Celebrating Dictionary Day 2024
Start: 2024-10-20T13:00:00-04:00
End: 2024-10-20T16:00:00-04:00
Location: 121 Wall St, New Haven, CT, United States, Connecticut 06511

Schedule

Sun Oct 20 2024 at 01:00 pm to 04:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

121 Wall St, New Haven, CT, United States, Connecticut 06511 | New Haven, CT

You are invited to explore original manuscripts and publications documenting the Websters and their life in New Haven, including family papers, records related to the groundbreaking American Dictionary of the English Language (1828), and numerous other publications by Noah Webster.
On Saturday, October 19, you are invited to visit the New Haven Museum where a selection of the Museum’s collections on Noah Webster will be on display. (The Museum is open 10am-5pm on Friday and 12noon-5pm on Saturday.)
On Sunday, October 20, stop by the Beinecke Library between 1-4 to explore original manuscripts and publications documenting Noah Webster, the Webster family, and their networks, including family papers, records related to the groundbreaking American Dictionary of the English Language (1828), and numerous other publications by Noah Webster. Visitors may also explore the history of dictionaries themselves through a number of historic lexicographical works predating Webster’s dictionary. We will be joined by colleagues from the Noah Webster House & West Hartford Historical Society, sharing items from their collections related to Noah Webster and the history of Webster’s Dictionary.
The event will be held in the reading room on the library’s courtyard level. The Beinecke Library exhibition hall (ground floor and mezzanine) is open on Sunday 1pm-4pm.
When you arrive at the Beinecke Library, please place bags, hats, coats, and other belongings in the provided lockers before heading downstairs. No ink pens are permitted in the reading room, but visitors may use the yellow pencils available in the library. Visitors are welcome to take non-flash photographs.