ICON OF PROTEST! Contact [email protected] for demos printing the Declaration on a wooden press in your classroom or library.

MUSHROOM MADNESS We host a fungal frolic here in our mountain fastness during these warm, wet days of late summer…

THE DECLARATION LIVES! Printing the Declaration of Independence with young visitors to the Smithsonian. A small political act in this challenging time. Encouraging all to read it and share it!

INTRODUCED AT SKEUOMORPH PRESS! A free 32pp illustrated guide to teaching with the BookBeetle Press. Download from www.bookbeetlepress.com

TORN ASUNDER ONCE AGAIN This fragment of the Dunlap printing of the Declaration from July 4-5, 1776, is front of mind today while reading the news. One of the two dozen surviving copies from the edition of approx 200, it was found wrapped around other documents in 1955 in Albany, NY. UVA Libraries.

FAITH IN THE FOREST The persistence of natural forces turning through their seasonal cycle heartens my spirit. Each February this homely flower pushes its way through the snow and mud at my home to remind me that the world will turn with or without us. It is Symplocarpus foetidus, skunk cabbage.

PRINT CULTURE DEEPDIVE. Participants in the BookBeetle Press AlphaBuzzzz Project have been developing educational projects for use with the desktop press. This past weekend they spent a day learning about the support and resources available at UVA Library’s Rare Book School and Special Collections.

Sharing History of the Book! Center for Book Arts in NYC. Audience fascinated by BookBeetle Press.