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Monday, October 23, 2017

English Expedition Club Encounters Dracula

Beware.  Students from Professor Megan Quigley’s 1975 class and the English Expedition Club hit the Rosenbach Museum and Library on Saturday Oct. 22nd to take in the Frankenstein & Dracula exhibit and for a hands-on tour of Dracula materials with curator Ed Pettit.  Did you know that Bram Stoker originally intended to call Dracula just count Vampyre?  And that plenty believed at the time that vampires roamed the earth?  Let’s hope they were wrong….