Mark Maier loves to visit a specific type of national monument — the homes of pivotal authors.On Wednesday, Maier, the assistant to the provost, will speak on his travels in Alex Mossey Library at 4 p.m.Maier graduated from Hillsdale College in 1998 and worked as a librarian at the Hillsdale Community Library before coming back to campus, Public Service Librarian Linda Moore said.“It’s nice to have one of our own back with us,” she said. “We thought it would be interesting to have him talk about his hobby and how he finds these authors’ homes and visits them.”Maier’s speech is entitled “Honeymooning in Milledgeville and other literary travels,” and is accompanied by a campus-wide contest to match authors’ names to pictures of their houses. The winner will get a $20 gift card to the bookstore. Moore said submissions are welcome at the library circulation desk until an hour before the lecture.
The event is part of the “Our Faculty After Hours” speech series, which is coordinated each semester by a Hillsdale librarian. Maier’s talk will be the 21st in the series.
Speeches in the past have featured subjects as varied as fly-fishing from Professor of English Daniel Sundahl, to J.R.R.Tolkien from Professor of History Brad Birzer. Once, Professor George Angell even brought in his handmade canoe, Moore said.
