James Taylor, featured in Reverie&Alchemy, is perhaps the world’s foremost authority on sideshow, founder of the American Dime Museum, Baltimore, which was part Victorian recreation and part homage to circus, carnival and dime museum culture, and later a similar museum at the Palace of Wonder in Washington D.C. He is the publisher of Shocked and Amazed! On & Off the Midway, the world’s only known periodical on contemporary and historical sideshow, novelty and variety, and is the founder of Dolphin Moon Press. Taylor is a graduate of the University of Maryland and the Johns Hopkins University Writing Seminars. He has served as literary chairman to the Baltimore Mayor’s Advisory Committee on Art and Culture and for many years worked for the Maryland State government and as Associate Professor of English for the Community College of Baltimore County. He is renowned for “the act,” a sideshow spectacle he almost definitely will not be performing at Towson.

Enjoy the exhibition and reception following the lecutre.