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Jean Baird tells “The Story of the Baseball.”

Post author By Lauren St Clair
Post date April 7, 2023
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Collector and bibliographer Jean Baird tells Karis Shearer the story of the baseball that she donated to the Baird-Bowering fonds at UBC Okanagan Special Collections and Archives.

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Author

Jean Baird

Jean Baird has been a professor, magazine publisher, consultant for non-profit organizations, and creative director of Canada Book Week for the Writers’ Trust of Canada. She is a book collector and bibliographer who co-founded the Al Purdy A-frame Association, which transformed the Purdys’ famous A-frame in Ameliasburgh, Ontario into a writers’ residence.

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Event

“A Celebration of the Works of George Bowering”

Post author By Lauren St Clair
Post date September 22, 2022
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L-R: Jean Baird, Robert Janke, Karis Shearer, Greg Garrard, Paige Hohmann. Front: George Bowering. Photo credit: Margo Yaschesyn.

Citation: “A Celebration of the Works of George Bowering.” 22 September, 2022. UBC Okanagan, Special Collections. https://soundbox.ok.ubc.ca/remediations/performances/

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