Another post in a series about Mr. Huntington's Garden by the botanical director of The Huntington.
"Sean Wilentz," says Robert C. Ritchie, The Huntington's W. M. Keck Foundation Director of Research, "is one of our country's leading interpreters of 19th-century American history." You can judge him for yourself on Monday night when Wilentz delivers a lecture
On Thursday night in New York City, Daniel Lewis will be giving the Norman Lecture on the History of Science and Medicine at the Grolier Club, arguably the most important book club in the country.
Another post in a series about Mr. Huntington's Garden by the botanical director of The Huntington.
Authors who conduct research at the Huntington Library don't often see their books turned into movies or country songs. But one chapter from Deanne Stillman's book Mustang: The Saga of the Wild Horse in the American West is being adapted into a movie now in development for the Hallmark Channel
NPR's Joe Palca spent the summer of 2009 at The Huntington on a fellowship as science writer in residence. The result? His new book, Annoying: The Science of What Bugs Us. (And we're trying not to take this personally.)
How many of us know about huanglongbing (HLB), a.k.a. citrus greening disease? Not so many, most likely. Plant diseases can be a "so what" kind of thing. But how many of us will miss oranges, lemons, and limes if they completely disappear from our diets? I would wager quite a few.
Over the years, The Huntington's collections have lent themselves to a wide variety of research projects: scholarly books, journal articles, doctoral dissertations, films, costume design, even archeology. Now we can add something new to that list: video game design.
The haunting, soulful tone that underscores the John Frame exhibition "Three Fragments of a Lost Tale: Sculpture and Story by John Frame" is set in large part by the characters' eyes. Certainly the dark lighting has dramatic effect, and the sweep of soft violin and piano in the distant background provides a sense of melancholy.
Thursday was a green-letter day. A simple idea planted more than 10 years ago came to life when board members of the California Avocado Society welcomed Brokaw, Rodriguez, and Shepherd family members to celebrate the successful establishment of Shepherd-Brokaw Orchard, the heart of a new Huntington Avocado Collection.