Portrait by photographer ©Darlene DeVita, supported by the Chelsea Heritage Grant. Last spring in Chelsea, Lisa D. Guglielmi Rizzo—the magnetic owner of Dillon’s—opened a new window of America for me. Week after week, I returned to enjoy the traditional shvitzing (sweating in Yiddish), oil rubs, and platza (shoulder whacking with an oak leaf) at her […]
Robert Darnton ’60 was educated at Oxford University (B. Phil., 1962; D. Phil., 1964), where he was a Rhodes Scholar. He served as Director of the Harvard University Library from 2007 to 2016 and now continues his research on the history of books, publishers, censors, booksellers, writers, and readers in eighteenth-century France from his office […]
