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We're very interested in the history of ideas, the history of printing, here in the Cushing
Library. Every May, we do a workshop for a week where
we actually make books, we set type, we cast type using hot lead, we make paper and print
in the same way that this would have been done from the 15th-century to the 18th-century.
So, if anyone is interested in that kind of thing, we have a press here that is sort of
a working model of a press of the period. We explore how all of these books would have
been produced and what that tells us about the cultures of the time.