The 2013 annual meeting of the Sippican Historical Society will be held Tuesday, June 11 at Marion’s Music Hall.  The meeting begins at 7 p.m., and will feature a brief wrap-up of the society’s business year, followed by the special presentation “Blogging, Now and Then,” by Harvard Professor Robert Darnton.  Darnton’s lecture will explore how, long before the Internet, Europeans exchanged information in ways that anticipated blogging.

Professor Darnton, a part-time Marion resident, became Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library at Harvard in 2007.  His outside activities include service as a trustee of the New York Public Library and the Oxford University Press (USA) and terms as president of the American Historical Association and the International Society of Eighteenth-Century Studies.  Among his honors are, a MacArthur Prize Fellowship, a National Book Critics Circle Award, election to the French Legion of Honor, and the National Humanities Medal conferred by President Obama in February 2012.

The Marion Music Hall is located at 164 Front St. The event is free to the public and no reservations are required.  For more information, email info@sippicanhistoricalsociety.org or call 508-748-1116.