We are meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 28th at 7pm at Da Vinci Restorante, located at 162 Columbus Avenue.

The book is called “The Hare with Amber Eyes, A Hidden Inheritance” by Edmund de Waal.

Overview

An Economist Book of the Year

Costa Book Award Winner for Biography

Galaxy National Book Award Winner (New Writer of the Year Award)

Edmund de Waal is a world-famous ceramicist. Having spent thirty years making beautiful pots-which are then sold, collected, and handed on-he has a particular sense of the secret lives of objects. When he inherited a collection of 264 tiny Japanese wood and ivory carvings, called netsuke, he wanted to know who had touched and held them, and how the collection had managed to survive.

And so begins this extraordinarily moving memoir and detective story as de Waal discovers both the story of the netsuke and of his family, the Ephrussis, over five generations. A nineteenth-century banking dynasty in Paris and Vienna, the Ephrussis were as rich and respected as the Rothchilds. Yet by the end of the World War II, when the netsuke were hidden from the Nazis in Vienna, this collection of very small carvings was all that remained of their vast empire.

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The Executive Committee typically meets on the first Monday of each month at 7:00pm at the South Cove Apartments at the corner of Stuart and Church Streets.

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Planning

This committee works on zoning and building issues that may affect the neighborhood. All neighbors are welcome to attend and BVNA members are invited to join the committee. The Planning Committee meets jointly with the Licensing Committee on the last Tuesday of each month at 7:00pm at the South Cove Apartments at the corner of Stuart and Church Streets. For more info click here

Licensing

This committee works on all licensing issues which may affect the neighborhood including service of alcohol, beer & wine and food. The Licensing Committee meets jointly with the Planning Committee on the last Tuesday of each month at 7:00pm at the South Cove Apartments at the corner of Stuart and Church Streets.For more info click here

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The Executive Committee typically meets on the first Monday of each month at 7:00pm at the South Cove Apartments at the corner of Stuart and Church Streets.

Everyone is invited to all committee meetings. Please come and join us.For more info, click here