Earlier this week, I posted an item hailing our group’s 19th anniversary. In response, Tom Wischer and Tim Walton have both kindly provided useful details that I inexplicably had forgotten. (Thanks, guys!) To wit:
The original incarnation of our group, then known as the Potomac Gay Men’s Book Group, met for the first time on May 11, 1999. Not long after that, we began informally calling ourselves Boys & Books, which quickly got shortened to BoysnBooks.
In 2007, we “grew up” (as Tim, then our facilitator, put it in a notice to members) and changed our name to Bookmen DC (initially, and briefly, rendered as Book Men DC). And so we have remained ever since!
Early next year I’ll invite your ideas for marking our 20th anniversary. In the meantime, here's wishing you all a relaxing holiday weekend and good reading.
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