These are keepsakes we made for a gathering of members of the William Morris Society to remember the event. Keepsakes are one of our favorite things to produce with letterpress.

The William Morris Society gathered at the home of artist and landscape architect, Judy Hanks-Henn, on Saturday, August 25th for a tour of her Morris-influenced home. Following are a few photos of the gathering and her home.

Ah, the Internet.

Rik Hoffman who taught at Sul Ross State University when I was there from 1971-74 (and I’m not sure we’ve spoken since then) sent this photo of me (left and without my beard) and Claude Thormalen (Sul Ross Dean of Students) hiking in the Chisos Mountains of Texas up near Boot Springs. Claude, Rik and I would often go on these kinds of hikes and float the Rio Grande River in rafts as it passed through Big Bend National Park/

Lots of beer and tequila flowed around and through these trips.

Jill and I were invited to the wedding of Ben Thoma, one of my students that has become a good friend.

Here is a photo of the VC classmates who were also attending.

Front row / left to right: Emily Mellor, Jessie Perlin, Ben Thoma, Dee Geraci, Christie McPartlan.

Back row / left to right: Karla Burger, Jillian Cordes, Sarah Salvatoriello, Russell Fraze, Carly Tushingham, Ray Nichols.

Six of our placements found to date.

6) #167 - July 12, 2007 in The Elephant Vanishes by Murakami

5) #122 - May 17, 2007 in Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman

4) #115 - May 4, 2007 in On The Road by Jack Kerouac

3) #83 - March 24, 2007 in Collected Poems of Robert Frost by Robert Frost

2) #61 - February 11, 2007 in The Cantos by Ezra Pound

1) #38 - January 20, 2007 in The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger

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We thought the ‘trips’ category was an interesting place to put this entry.

Good Lead Graffiti friend, Mike Kaylor and Ray went to Washington, D.C. to pick up a nice Kelsey tabletop press. Afterwards they took in the Walt Whitman show at the National Portrait Gallery. The resemblence between the three of us was pretty strange.