10/10. Lectures all day

 Woke up to the good news that Trump didn’t get the Peace Prize.  Breakfast in our room again.

Our first speaker mostly writes biographies, but has recently written a novel about Jane at the sea.

I thought this was a priceless moment - the woman in regency dress working on her lap top.

The second speaker was drawn to Austen when as a black girl she recognized herself in Miss Lamb.  Now she has written almost 30 books with historical black women as the heroines.  

Both of these women gave excellent talks and I will try their books.

Our regular lunch in the room.

2 more talks - 1 bad and one about what articles of clothing are called that was interesting.

Changed out of my blue regency dress to go back to MO’s seafood for dinner.  This time we were more savvy with our order.  It still was an enormous crab cake but doable. I also took a picture of 2 of the lumps of crab.  The menu says JUMBO LUMP CRAB and they aren’t kidding.

Back to the room and now to bed.

Me in my blue dress at the Denver conference.