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The holidays are just around the corner! Stop in for our Holiday preview sale to find unique gifts drawn from our collections. Items range from prints and cards to coffee mugs and pillows. On November 16, shoppers receive a 10% discount, and Lloyd Members get 20% off.

Celebrate the opening of The Lore of the Pawpaw examining the  history, presence, and fascination behind Ohio’s state native fruit. Madeleine Hordinski’s lens takes you from pawpaw groves, to the science of pawpaws, to the largest celebration of pawpaws in the world!  Additionally, Lore examines Ohio’s role in the pawpaw’s rising global profile. Refreshments.

Free and open to the public.

Take a journey with Ohio University professor Rob Brannan as he describes his research pathway from here to Europe on the growth and cultivation of pawpaws trees on both continents. Learn from Brannan about his international connections and their recent updates on different cultivars of Ohio’s state native fruit.  

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Rob Brannan is a professor of food and nutrition sciences at Ohio University and leads a food science research program on pawpaw fruit. He teaches a variety of food-based courses including Principles of Food Science and Experimental Foods. Brannan is also the Director of Education for the world’s largest pawpaw festival, the Ohio Pawpaw Festival held every year in Albany.

 

Ron Powell shares his story about how a hobby he shared with his late wife grew into growing and researching pawpaw trees on their Adams County farm. For the past thirty years, Powell has documented 500 pawpaw trees in Ohio, including extensive notes and photography. Though his photo collection is digitally archived, his collection of Kodachrome slides shine on display for The Lore of the Pawpaw.

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Ron Powell holds a PhD in agriculture education from The Ohio State University and is the founder of the North American Pawpaw Growers Association. He has taught at local universities including University of Cincinnati, The Ohio State University, University of Kentucky, and Cincinnati State on entomology, plant pathology, and botany. He and his late wife Terry Powell became interested in growing pawpaws while he worked for the State of Ohio. Together, they won more than ten awards at the Ohio Pawpaw Festival including “Largest Pawpaw” and “Best Tasting Pawpaw.”

Join us on our open Saturday to meet the Lloyd Library’s 2024 Artist-in-Residence and photographer behind The Lore of the Pawpaw, Madeleine Hordinski.

Hordinski is a photographer born and based in Cincinnati. She graduated from Ohio University with degrees in photojournalism and anthropology. Following graduation, she interned for The Los Angeles Times. In 2022, she began freelancing full-time in Cincinnati, with work taking her from Poland to Texas. She is a regular contributor to The New York Times, with photos appearing in articles on local luminaries Louis Langrée and Jerald Cooper to much acclaim. Her images and writings have been featured in National Geographic, The Washington Post, the BBC, and more outlets with a growing international audience.

 

Local author Annette Januzzi Wick discusses backstory in writing and in our everyday lives, examining various memoirs, whether on food or the outdoors, to discover what past circumstances can reveal.

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Annette Januzzi Wick is a writer, teacher, speaker, and author of two memoirs on love and loss. She writes about the arts, women’s issues, cities, aging and memory. Her work can be found in Cincinnati Magazine, 3rd Act Magazine, nextavenue.com, Promedica, Belt Magazine, Edible Ohio Valley, and Ovunque Siamo, an Italian American journal.

 

Photographer Damon Wilson leads a tour through downtown Cincinnati to visit Washington Park. There, guests will photograph some of the oldest trees in the city and look to the native plants in season for inspiration with camerawork guidance from Wilson. Amateurs are welcome, as are film and digital aficionados alike. Be sure to bring your walking shoes!

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Damon Wilson is a fine art, editorial, and portrait photographer who is the proprietor of Meta 19: Photographer LLC and a designer at KZF Design. He has had the pleasure of leading projects around the world, including Ascension Island, with solo shows from Arizona to Kentucky. While his work has found its way into several publications, he is most proud of his work with local publishers for the arts and cultural magazine Polly.

 

 

Art historian Lauren Cannady shares her research on the creation and circulation of botanical knowledge in early modern European gardens. While a 2024 Curtis Gates Lloyd Fellow, she came across a manuscript in the collection that appears to be notes made on-site at the Jardin du Roi in Paris in the summer of 1708 by a student attending Joseph Pitton de Tournefort’s botanical lectures. From an analysis of the Lloyd manuscript, the discussion then turns to early modern empirical practices, botanical scholarship, and knowledge networks.

Registrations Required.

Lauren R. Cannady, Assistant Professor of Humanities at the University of Houston-Clear Lake, is a scholar working at the intersections of art history, intellectual history, and the environmental humanities. She holds a PhD in Art History from New York University. Through her research and teaching, she explores artistic production and taxonomies of knowledge within interrelated histories of science, religion, technology, and labor in the early modern period. She is completing a book on early modern patterned gardens as sites of knowledge production and transmission, and is co-editor of Crafting Enlightenment: Artisanal Histories and Transnational Networks, which appeared in the Oxford University Studies in the Enlightenment series in 2021.

Want to learn more about Pick Your Poison? Visit the Lloyd on July 20, 9 a.m.-4 p.m. and join Lloyd curators for tours highlighting the exhibition’s books and their significance.

Join leading cancer researcher Susan Mooberry as she discusses the quest for discovering new treatments for breast cancer. Many drugs used for the treatment of cancer are derived from or modeled after compounds found in nature. Natural products continue to provide effective new leads for many types of cancer including breast cancer.  The program will focus on therapies for the treatment of challenging cancers, including triple negative breast cancers. 

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As Professor Emeritus of the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, Dr. Mooberry previously held the position of The Greehey Distinguished Chair in Molecular Therapeutics. She has published over 145 peer reviewed articles, reviews and book chapters and holds eleven patents on new classes of drug leads.  Dr. Mooberry has served on scientific review panels for national and international organizations and as Principal Investigator of NIH and industry grants. She is past president of the American Society for Pharmacognosy and was elected as a Fellow of that society in 2019 and in 2022 was honored by the American Society of Pharmacology as the first recipient of the Susan Band Horwitz lecture.