About the Kerrytown BookFest

The Kerrytown BookFest is an event celebrating those who create books and those who read them. The primary goal is to highlight our area’s rich heritage in the book and printing arts while showcasing our local and regional individuals, businesses, and organizations. Since 2003 we have been growing, sharing, and discovering more and more about the rich book culture in our region.

2005 was, despite the heat, another success, with over 100 exhibitors, dozens of presenters and demonstrators, and over 2500 visitors. You can see photos taken last year here. 2006 will be our 4th annual festival, and our second as an independent 501(c)3 non-profit organization. Our bylaws can be seen here. Whether a business or an individual, if you'd like to support us and help us contine to grow, please visit our Sponsoring page or our Volunteers page to join us.

We feature authors, storytellers, publishers bookbinders, book artists, book illustrators, poets, letterpress printers, wood engravers, calligraphers, papermakers, librarians, teachers, publishers, new, used, and antiquarian booksellers and many others associated with books and their diverse forms, structure, and content. Our children's area, with storytelling and creative activities, is always popular as well

We always strive to create a colorful mix of book related activities and showcase them all in one location. Visitors can watch bookbinders demonstrate how to bind books and do simple repairs, see papermakers make wonderful kinds of paper, and see book artists create marbled colors on paper, or make an entirely new piece of art from a book. There are even opportunitites to print with your own hands commemorative bookmarks or poems from local poets with antique letterpress printing machines.

Please join us each fall for a wonderful day of speakers, education, and activities and join our rich and varied community of people who love the book and book arts.

Feel free to contact us at bookfest [@] kerrytownbookfest [dot] org or 734.669.0451.

Kerrytown BookFest Board members

Board members
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Gene Alloway
President
Exhibitor Committee
Motte & Bailey, Booksellers

Tom Hollander
Vice President
Hollander's Book and Paper Arts

Joan Knoertzer
Treasurer
Library Bed & Breakfast

Robin Agnew
Secretary
Aunt Agatha’s Mystery Book Shop

Lynn Adelman
Volunteer Committee Co-Chair
Community Member

Cindy Hollander
Exhibitor Commitee
Hollander's Book and Paper Arts

Susan Ufferman
Volunteer Committee Co-Chair
Community Member

John Hilton
Publicity Committee
Editor, Ann Arbor Observer

Pete Sickman Garner
Publicity Committee
Marketing Director, Zingerman's

and not to be left out -

Mary Ivers
Consulting Accountant
Deloitte & Touche USA LLP