Annual Meeting 2004 |
Library of Congress |
| photos by Dennis Kytasaari |
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 Washington Monument at night. |
 The Lincoln... |
 ...Memorial... |
 ...at night. |
 Past NAJVS president Art Edwards & Abe. |
 Gettysburg Address |
 Another view. |
 The Mall at night. |
 Vietnam War Memorial at night. |
 The Atlantic side of the new WWII memorial. |
 The Pacific side. |
 Washington Monument again. |
 The... |
 ...Jefferson... |
 ...Memorial. |
 More... |
 ...views. |
 A... |
 ...collection... |
 ...of photos... |
 ...of the... |
 ...Franklin... |
 ...Delano Roosevelt... |
 ...Memorial. |
 John Paul... |
 ...Jones memorial. |
 The new... |
 ...WW II memorial... |
 ...by day. |
 Another view of the Washington Monument. |
 The White House by day. |
 The original Declaration... |
 ...of Independence. |
 The original Constitution... |
 ...of the United States. |
 The original... |
 ...Bill of Rights. |
 Scenes from... |
 ...inside the... |
 ...National Archives. |
 These... |
 ...are some... |
 ...of the unique... |
 ...items... |
 ...in the... |
 ...National Sculpture Garden. |
 The Hope Diamond, big enough for an ostrich to swallow! |
 A unique image on the wall of the National Museum of Natural History. |
 That museum had... |
 ...some displays devoted to... |
 ...the GIANT SQUID! |
 No Giant Squid display would be complete without... |
 ...one reference to Jules Verne! |
 A woman working at this museum delighted in putting live big bugs in people's hands. |
 A recreation of a wall from an ancient Roman seaside village. |
 Our first dinner together, Jean-Michel celebrates while Dana & Ben look on. |
 Terry Harpold and A.J. (Jean-Michel's wife). |
 A.J. and Jean-Michel. |
 Walter and Mary arrive. |
 Brian Taves and Mark Eckell, organizers extraordinaire! |
 Arthur Edwards and Dana, two of our charter members! |
 Jean-Louis Trudel and Dana. |
 Roger Leyonmark and Andrew arrive in time for our Alliance Française event. |
 Jean-Michel's opening slide. |
 One of our hosts at the Alliance Française. |
 Brian introduces... |
 ...followed by Jean-Michel,... |
 ...Jean-Louis,... |
 ...Terry,... |
 ...and Walter presenting their various topics. |
 Part of our audience at the Alliance, a mixture of some of us and some of them. |
 The presenters... |
 ...take some questions from... |
 ...the audience. |
 Then... |
 ...the... |
 ...reception... |
 ...begins! |
 Jules gets a picture and a mention at the Smithsonian Air & Space Museum. |
 The X-15. |
 As does his old friend... |
 ...Nadar. |
 The Breitling Orbiter III, which as I recall carried a Verne book with it as it went around the world. |
 The Library of Congress portion of our event begins with... |
 ...Brian Taves introducing whats in store for the next three days. |
 A mixture of NAJVS members and Library employees. |
 John Cole of the Center for the Book at the Library of Congress. |
 A rarely seen episode of The Shirley Temple Show called 'The Terrible Clockman,' which was very loosely based on Verne's Master Zacharius. |
 At the Library's Jefferson building we were able to see... |
 ...some of the Verne books the libray has is its Rare Book divison. |
 A picture of Willis Hurd, president of the American Jules Verne Society of the 1940's. |
 Various shots... |
 ...of some of... |
 ...the rare finds... |
 ...in the collection. Many were from the Willis Hurd collection that was donated upon his death. |
 A formal reception was held in the Library's Montpelier room. Here Art Edwards, Roger and Art Evans chat. |
 French play translator Frank Morlock. |
 Terry Harpold talks with Teri Hernández. |
 Members... |
 ...chat amongst themselves. |
 The Capitol Dome can be seen from the Library's... |
 ...Montpelier room. |
 Brian kicks off this event, |
 John Cole of the Center For the Book. |
 Jean-Michel... |
 ...speaks about... |
 ...the first time he... |
 ...heard about Walter's "Annotated 20,000 Leagues..." |
 He presents Walter... |
 ...with a plaque denoting his pioneering achievements. |
 Walter makes some remarks... |
 ...while we all listen. |
 Walter |
 Brian Taves offers his thoughts on Walter's work and its inspiration for getting him into Verne scholarship. |
 The plaque. |
 Jean-Michel, Brian, Walter and John Cole. |
 Walter and Mary at our Chinese dinner. |
 Teri Hernández and Art Evans of DePauw University. |
 Roger and Brian. |
 Jean-Michel and A.J. |
 Myself and Terry Harpold. |
 Norm Wolcott, Art Edwards and Dana Eales. |
 Ben Eales, Jean-Louis Trudel and Andrew Nash. |
 Andrew, Brian Kutzera and Mark Eckell. |
 Jean-Michel makes some presentations in thanks... |
 ...for putting this program together. Brian and I each received and early French edition of an 'Voyages Extraordinaires.' |
 We then discuss some business regarding next year's meeting... |
 ...and our quest to get 501(c)3 status. |
 The next morning our full day of programming begins. |
 Clark Evans of the Rare Books division... |
 ...discusses their holdings. |
 Carol Armbruster of the LC discusses their holding of Jules Verne in their Seaside Library collection. |
 Art Evans dicusses "Vernian Frenglish." |
 Friday's audience. |
 Frank Morlock talks about Verne's plays. |
 Norm Wolcott... |
 ...talks about Project Gutenberg. |
 Roger, improvising... |
 ...shows us some of his childhood Verne related sketches. |
 Art Evans talks about Henry Sharton and a 2005 special issue of Science Fiction Studies dedicated to Verne. |
 He then talks about upcoming projects for the Wesleyan Early Classics of Science Fiction series. |
 We have lunch... |
 ...in one of the LC's dining rooms. |
 Charles Grimm talks about J.E. Williamson, a pioneer of undersea photography that was featured in the 1916 silent version of '20,000 Leagues...' |
 Catherine Marzin talks about the mystery of Brutus de Villeroi, the... |
 ...inventor of the first U.S. Navy submarine called the 'U.S.S.' Alligator. |
 Terry Harpold talks about Providential Grace in 'Le Testament d'un excentrique'. |
 Teri Hernández tells us what she's learned about Verne via translating Bourses de voyage |
 Jean-Michel makes a special presentation to... |
 ...Ed Palik, our chief benefactor driving the translation efforts of the society..jpg |
 Michael Dirda, a literary reporter from the Washington Post, tells his own story about a Lidenbrock / Hardwigge translation error. |
 Then our translators get together and make... |
 ...some of their own observations. |
 Old member Roger Torstenson joined us for the afternoon. |
 Off to dinner, where Art Edwards wife Amy and daughter Harper have joined us. Also pictured, Roger and Roger. |
 Art, Michael Dirda, Terry, Brian, Jean-Michel and A.J. |
 Jean-Louis, Norm and Norm's daughter. |
 Amy and Harper, followed by Arthur as we set out to see more of DC at night. |
 A huge lump of iron ore that was extracted... |
 ...from a mine near where my father was born. |
 The White House at night. |
 Brian opens the program for our final day. |
 Jean-Michel talks about... |
 ...the forthcoming translation of The Kip Brothers. |
 Norm Wolcott talks about Lewis Mercier, one of Verne's early English translator's who butchered his work, or did he? |
 Walter talks about his and Rick Walter's work on a new translation of The Meteor Hunt coming in 2005. This will be based on Verne's original manuscript, not the one published by his son Michel. |
 The Saturday... |
 ...audience. |
 Colleen Cahill helped throughout the meeting with the technical details. |
 Our final speaker Jean-Louis Trudel on the influence of Verne on French-Canadian Science Fiction. |
 During our business meeting one of our more recent members was able to join us, Henry Franke III. |
 Two views of the... |
 US Capitol. |
 A sculpture outside of the National Gallery of Art, somewhat reminiscent of the Louvre. |
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