The Mencken Society

09/09/2017

Der Tag 2017

September 9, 2017

At France Hall, Maryland Historical Society, 201 West Monument Street:

10:30 AM Annual Meeting of the Mencken Society.
Speaker: George W. Liebmann on “Mencken on Church and State.”

Lunch break. Attendees are on their own.

2:00 PM The 2017 Mencken Memorial Lecture: “When America Was Great and Baltimore Knew Better,” presented by Darryl G. Hart, author of Damning Words: The Life and Religious Times of H. L. Mencken.

There will be a book signing following the program.

At the Enoch Pratt Free Library, 400 Cathedral Street:

10:00 AM to 5:00 PM The Mencken Room is open to the public.

Exhibits:

“H. L. Mencken and the First World War”
“Mencken and the New York Evening Mail”
“Mencken’s A Book of Prefaces”

10/09/2012

Mencken Society member John Dausch, channeling Mr Mencken, delivered a brief eulogy to Edgar Allan Poe at the ""Lord Help My Poor Soul": Eulogies for Poe" ceremony conducted at the Westminster Hall and Burying Ground, 519 West Fayette Street, Baltimore, MD, on 2012-01-07.

The ceremony was produced, directed and staged by Jeff Jerome and Mark Redfield and featured eulogies by Elizabeth Arnold Poe, H. L. Mencken, George Lippard (1822-1854, a friend of Poe), H. P. Lovecraft, Sir Alfred Hitchcock and President Abraham Lincoln.

08/25/2012

The Mencken Society will be offering an official tee-shirt for purchase by members at the Pratt Library during Mencken Day (September 8, 2012). All proceeds benefit the Pratt's Mencken Room. The back of the shirt has a message most apt for the times during a Presidential Campaign.

08/23/2012

Michael E. Abrams' article "Mystery portrait of famous critic H.L. Mencken discovered, was tucked in signed
autobiography":

http://www.thetallahasseenews.com/index.php/site/article/mystery_portrait_of_famous_critic_h.l._mencken_discovered_in_autobiography

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07/30/2012

Mr Mencken mentions a drink called "Swedish punch" which is better known as "Punsch". From Wikipedia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Punsch): "Punsch ... is a traditional liqueur in Sweden. ... Swedish Punsch is different from punch."

Punsch (also known as Arrack Punch, Caloric Punch, Punch or Punsch) is a traditional liqueur in Sweden and to a lesser extent some other Nordic countries produced from arrack, neutral spirits, sugar, water, and various flavorings. Arrack, originally a strong Indian liquor, was imported from Java and...

07/29/2012

"Economic independence is the foundation of the only sort of freedom worth a damn." (HLM to Charles Green Shaw, 1927-12-02, Forgue 1961, p. 307)

07/29/2012

"My favorite drinks, in order, are: beer in any form, Moselle, Burgundy, Chianti, gin and ginger-beer, and rye whiskey. I use Swedish punch only as a cocktail flavor. I dislike Scotch, and seldom drink it. It makes me vaguely uneasy. I also dislike Rhine wine, save the very best." (Forgue 1961, p. 305)

07/29/2012

"I am prepared to admit some merit in every alcoholic beverage ever devised by the incomparable brain of man and drink them all when occasions are suitable--wine with meat, the hard liquors when my so-called soul languishes, beer to let me down gently of an evening. In other words, I am omnibibulous, or, more simply, ombibulous." (Minority Report, Item 136)

07/12/2012

David Donovan will speak on "H.L. Mencken and the Saturday Night Club" on Saturday, September 29, 2012 at 1:00 p.m. at the the Pratt Library's Southeast Anchor Library, 3601 Eastern Avenue (S Conkling St), Baltimore, MD 21224. See http://www.prattlibrary.org/calendar/atPratt.aspx?id=75024 for more information.

Baltimore icon H.L.Mencken was a newspaper man and an amateur musician. When he got together with his Saturday Night Club, comprised of both amateur and professional musicians, to make music, he was there at the piano. The group met for over forty years to enjoy good music, good conversation, and go...

09/08/2011

Saturday, September 10, 2011 is Mencken Day in Baltimore. Read all about it on the Mencken Society web page at www.mencken.org

05/11/2011

I believe that religion, generally speaking, has been a curse to mankind - that its modest and greatly overestimated services on the ethical side have been more than overcome by the damage it has done to clear and honest thinking. H. L. Mencken. Agree? You might want to think about joining the Mencken Society. www.mencken.org

Promotes the reading of the works of Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), the Sage of Baltimore, American author, critic, newspaper man and iconoclast.

04/06/2011

I do not believe in democracy, but I am perfectly willing to admit that it provides the only really amusing form of government ever endured by mankind. H. L. Mencken Visit the Mencken Society website to learn more about Mencken's view of democracy.
www.mencken.org

Promotes the reading of the works of Henry Louis Mencken (1880-1956), the Sage of Baltimore, American author, critic, newspaper man and iconoclast.