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Presentation & Book Signing, Free to All! 😀
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Marcel's Letters: A Font & the Search for One Man's Fate
Presentation & Book Signing
Saturday, April 07, 2018
11:00 a.m. @ Driftless Historium
Free and Family Friendly. All Welcome!
The Mount Horeb Area Historical Society will host graphic designer, author and Verona native Carolyn Porter and her World War II presentation “Marcel’s Letters: A Font and the Search for One Man’s Fate."
Seeking inspiration for a new font design in an antique store in small-town Stillwater, Minnesota, graphic designer Carolyn Porter stumbled across some old letters and was immediately drawn to the beautifully expressive pen-and-ink handwriting. She could not read the letters—they had been written in French—but she noticed they had been signed by a man named Marcel and mailed from Berlin to France during the middle of World War II.
As Carolyn grappled with designing the font, she decided to have one of Marcel’s letters translated. Reading words of love combined with testimony of survival inside a German labor camp transformed Carolyn’s curiosity into an obsession, and she sought to find out why the letter writer, Marcel Heuzé, had been in Berlin, how his letters came to be for sale in a store halfway around the world, and, most importantly, whether he returned to his beloved wife and daughters after the war.
Marcel’s Letters is the story of Carolyn’s increasingly desperate search to find answers to the mystery of one man’s fate, answers that would come from Germany, France, and the United States. Simultaneously, she would continue to work on what would become the acclaimed font P22 Marcel Script, immortalizing the man and letters that waited years to be reunited with his family.
For more information, call the Driftless Historium at 608-437-6486 or email mthorebhistory@mhtc.net<mailto:mthorebhistory@mhtc.net>.
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Mount Horeb Area Historical Society
Driftless Historium
100 South 2nd Street
P.O. Box 238
Mount Horeb, Wisconsin 53572
(608) 437-6486
mthorebhistory.org
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