Recognition Evening cover image
The Ashford Society Edition · 122nd

Recognition
Evening

The Evening
Saturday · October 10 · 2026
The Hall
Ashford House
Catherine M. Reyes portrait
C. M. R.
A note from Chair, Board of Governors

A note from the Chair

For one hundred and twenty-two years, the Society has done one quiet, durable thing — gathered the people who carry its work forward into a single room, once a year, and given them the long evening of attention they have earned. Tonight we honor four colleagues whose contributions span our four standing programs — the Library, the Press, the Lecture Series, and the Endowed Studies. Read their citations. Tell them what their work has meant. Stay for the reception; the room is at its best after nine. We are grateful to our institutional partners, whose generosity makes this evening — and the year of work it celebrates — possible. And we are grateful to all of you, who chose to be here. Welcome back.

The evening, in brief

One evening. 6 speakers. 2 headliners.

1
Evening
6
Speakers
2
Headliners
1
Days
Saturday
10 October
Doors at 5:30 PM · Program 6:30 PM

A note from the Chair

Wycombe, MA 02184

Dr. Margaret Holloway portrait
Keynote · 7:45 PM

Dr.
Margaret Holloway

on Recognition: the Class of 2026
Three decades as Senior Librarian have made Dr. Holloway the keeper of the Society's most ambitious cataloguing project — the Lyon Collection — and the editor of two definitive bibliographies on early American letters.
Honoree · The Library
Institutional Partners

Made possible by

Founding Partners
1 partner
Standing Partners
4 partners
Friends Of The Society
5 partners
Wayfinding

Ashford House

108 Bellington Square · Wycombe, MA 02184

Ashford House

Getting in

Valet parking opens at 5:00 p.m. at the Bellington Square entrance. From Boston: 22 minutes via I-93 South, exit 9. Commuter rail to Wycombe Center, then a six-minute walk down Bellington. Coat check is immediately inside the colonnade; the Long Gallery is up one flight on the right.

Reach the venue

(617) 555-0162 · ashfordsociety.example/house

Until next time

Thank you for being here

The work continues. Nominations for next year's class open in February; the call will reach you by post. Until then, our gratitude — and safe travels home.
The Ashford Society Edition · 122nd