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A most wondrous edition of the bundle
Marey Barthoff :: November 22, 2025
Warm, cozy Autumn greetings, AAPA! It's Marey & Fern here, bringing you our November Picks!
And celebrating this month's extra cheery bundle! Reading through feels like catching up with a whole bunch of neighbors in a cute small town! Let's journey together ...
New AAJ Editor Mike O'Conner, you've done a wondrous job for our 90th year! A perfect idea, asking us all, "What Has AAPA Meant to Me?" So many memories shared! Plus, we find a long list of brand new members to celebrate & welcome in!
Historian & Creative Printer Laurie Kitzke actually made 2 bundle pieces, both so cheery, and right after creating the wonderful. Cahoots cover art last month! Laurie, you have everybody so smiling;
Lots of heart-warming stuff in the shared memories dept! Mark McComas' "The Coal Furnace" is so deeply descriptive, we're feeling being right there with him amidst the challenge of tending to the old furnace!
Fred Moe's Farm & Wilderness Report No. 5, "Life in a Northern Town", similarly carries us all back to feeling like we're right there with him! Fred, I admire your gathering the history of the place! It took me a lifetime of hunting just to find who my childhood street was named for.
Welcome New Member Steven Savage! Steve's journal, The World is a Library, No. 2, takes us all along on a wonderful trip to an intriguing bookstore!
Fred Moe's Bargain Bin DJ No. 14 takes us on a truly unexpected journey among records we never knew existed! Fred, I got to meet Jack Hanna back in animation class in college. Fern & I are looking so forward to your next edition of Bargain Bin DJ!
Steve Ingram's Mini Zine for Nov., "Miles and Moments", also takes us right along on his travels, sharing experiences we never knew were out there, & plus a bunch of wonderful snapshots to go with! Thank you Steve for yet another great edition of the Mini Zine &, a lot of great reading!
As always, in the Poetry Corner, we find a wondrous pair of most heartfelt poems from our star poet, John Edgerton! And Ivan Snyder's wondrous typesetting mastery is just shining all through his Odds & Ends No. 53, about "46 Years in Review" & "Typefaces I Like". Ivan! No one else could do such an amaaazing job of setting pages & pages of 8 pt. Bookman! Truly a beautiful sight to all of us who cherish exquisite typography!
Profound gratitude to ALL those who contributed to this most wondrous edition of the bundle, & to all of AAPA for providing the precious gift of audience. Fern & I wish everyone a most heartfelt Thanksgiving....