Wed
May 19
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7:00 PM
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Dinner at: Morgan’s Restaurant @ Columbia Hilton Hotel
5485 Twin Knolls Road, Columbia, MD 21045-3247
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Thu
May 20
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Breakfast as you wish...
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9:00 AM
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NAJVS Business Meeting (members only)
- Agenda TBA by NAJVS President Jean-Michel Margot
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12:00 PM
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Lunch as you wish...
- Fast food and chain restaurants nearby
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2:00 PM
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NAJVS Business Meeting continued — if required (members only)
otherwise relax as you wish...
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7:00 PM
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Official welcome dinner at: Cafe De Paris
8808 Centre Park Drive, Columbia, MD 21045-2109
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Fri
May 21
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Breakfast as you wish...
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9:00 AM
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Opening remarks
- Jean-Michel Margot, President, NAJVS Inc.
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9:15 AM
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“Publishing Jules Verne at Home”
- Norm Wolcott, NAJVS Inc.
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10:00 AM
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“Jules Verne & NASA”
(from the Henry Sharton Collection)
- Dennis Kytasaari, NAJVS Inc.
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10:45 AM
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Break
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11:00 AM
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“Anticipating the Past”
- Prof. Marie-Hélène Huet, Princeton University
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12:00 PM
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Lunch as you wish...
- Fast food and chain restaurants nearby
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2:00 PM
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“A Brief History of Howard County and Columbia, MD”
- Mark Eckell, NAJVS Inc.
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2:30 PM
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“A Land of Eccentrics: Jules Verne’s United States and The Will of an
Eccentric”
- Brian Taves, Library of Congress
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3:00 PM
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Break
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3:15 PM
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“Writing a Jules Verne Story”
- Roger Leyonmark, NAJVS Inc.
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3:45 PM
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“Why Read Verne?”
- Michael Dirda, Washington Post
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7:00 PM
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Dinner at: Rams
Head Tavern
8600 Foundry Street, Savage, MD 20763-9512
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Sat
May 22
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Breakfast as you wish...
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9:00 AM
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Relax as you wish, perhaps the hotel pool?!
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12:00 PM
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Lunch as you wish
- Fast food and chain restaurants nearby
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3:00 PM
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Around the World in Eighty Days at the Round House Theatre
4545 East-West Highway, Bethesda, MD 20814
We will leave just after lunch to get to the theater for this
starting time. After the play, members of the NAJVS
will be leading a discussion of the play and Verne with the audience.
Transportation from Columbia to
Bethesda and back should not be a problem; there will be enough
cars with available seats to do the job.
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6:00 PM
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Dinner in Bethesda at location: McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant
7401 Woodmont Ave., Bethesda, MD 20814
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Sun
May 23
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— BON VOYAGE —
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