The Spring 2005 issue of the Amherst Magazine has just been mailed out and updated online, and, among other things, it features an article about Amherst memorabilia and eBay. The article, titled “Wild, Wild Web: The Hunt for Amherst on...
This week sees a couple of strange items in the unending flow of Amherstiana available on eBay. First, we have a letter of acceptance for the class of 2009, boasted to be the first of many such letters to be...
A group of items identified as notebooks used by former United States Senator and Vice-Presidential candidate Thomas Eagleton ‘50 have been put up for auction on eBay this week. Most Amherst material on eBay is fairly straightforward, but this sort...
William Webster ‘45, the one who was not Director of the FBI in the 1970s and ’80s, passed away in November of 2004, and was remembered in a recent Inside Bay Area article. Webster was the director of the Hayward,...
I spent some time today talking with a writer for the Amherst Magazine about Amherst memorabilia, Amherst collectibles on eBay, and my collection, which I’ve dubbed “Amherstiana.” His first question: how do you pronounce it? I guess it’s got a...