About the Club
Founded in 1892, The Rowfant Club is a highly active bibliophilic society of Cleveland, Ohio. We are dedicated to the love of books in all their capacities to please the mind of man. This includes their ideas and content, the artistry of their design and construction, and their value as collectibles. Accordingly, we have a library of well-loved books in our house, which is believed to be the oldest continuously inhabited residential structure in Cleveland.
Light Seeking Light Doth Light Of Light Beguile is our motto, and is a quote from Shakespeare, in Act I Scene i, of Love’s Labour’s Lost. Those seeking the light of knowledge that books provide will join together in fellowship. This fellowship of bibliophiles provides us with our core.
Rowfant Club Calendar: 2026-27
| Date | Event | Speaker | Topic |
|---|---|---|---|
| Fellowes Meeting | — | — | |
| Opening Dinner/Talk (Black Tie) | James Robenalt | TBD | |
| Opening Lunch/Talk | Ned Siegler | TBD | |
| Dinner/Talk | Richard Kopley | "Edgar Allen Poe: A Life" | |
| No Lunch - Chesnutt Cocktails | — | — | |
| Chesnutt Symposium - Evening Cocktails | — | — | |
| Chesnutt Symposium - Program at WRHS | — | — | |
| Dinner/Talk | Renold D. Thompson, Jr. | "The U.S. Submarine Force and the Taiwan Strait 2027" | |
| Lunch/Talk | Michael Lederman | "Ancient Greece, Yurp and A Viral Outbreak" | |
| Wine Tasting | — | — | |
| Fellowes Meeting | — | — | |
| Lunch/Talk | Bob Doroghazi | "Negative Secular Trends in Medicine" | |
| Dinner/Talk | Jamar Rahming | TBD | |
| Lunch/Talk | Brad Gascoigne | "General Sherman: Fighting Prophet" | |
| Dinner/Talk | Jeff Karem | TBD | |
| Lunch/Talk | Jim Schilling | "The Collector: The Whole World in a Book" | |
| Dinner/Talk | Johathan P. Witmer-Rich | TBD | |
| Lunch/Talk | Don Iannone | "Don lannone on the Evolution of His Writing Life" | |
| Fellowes Meeting | — | — | |
| Lunch/Talk | Tom Prior | "The History of Magic; so far" | |
| Dinner/Talk | Jennifer Boresz Engelking | TBD | |
| Special Event - Siegel Lifelong Learning | [Panel at Siegel] | — | |
| Maison Française de Cleveland: Dinner & French Film (Rowfanters Invited) | — | — | |
| Dinner/Talk | Jennifer L. Bazar, PhD | TBD | |
| Lunch/Talk | Roy Poillon | Review of "The Anxious Generation" | |
| Closed for Thanksgiving | — | — | |
| Closed for Thanksgiving | — | — | |
| Fellowes Meeting | — | — | |
| Lunch/Talk | Thomas Zipp | "Klaus Barbie versus the US government" | |
| Dinner/Talk | Sasha Thackaberry-Voinovich | TBD | |
| Lunch/Talk | Henry Billingsley | "Edmund Fitzgerald" | |
| Irish Whiskey Tasting | Brian Dickey | — | |
| Librarian's Auction (Black Tie) | — | — | |
| Lunch/Talk | Tom Davis | TBD | |
| Closed for Christmas | — | — | |
| Closed for Christmas | — | — | |
| Closed for New Year's | — | — | |
| Closed for New Year's | — | — | |
| Fellowes Meeting | — | — | |
| Lunch/Talk | — | — | |
| "Welcome to Rowfant" Event | Joe Peter | — | |
| Dinner/Talk | Abigail R. Moncrieff | TBD | |
| Lunch/Talk | — | — | |
| Dinner/Talk | Seth Pevnick | TBD | |
| Lunch/Talk | — | — | |
| Burns Night [TBC] | — | — | |
| Dinner/Talk | — | — | |
| Lunch/Talk | — | — | |
| CANDLEMAS (Black Tie) | — | — | |
| Closed | — | — | |
| Lunch/Talk | — | — | |
| Dinner/Talk | Sean Martin | TBD | |
| Lunch/Talk | — | — | |
| Dinner/Talk | Paul Rose | TBD | |
| Lunch/Talk | — | — | |
| Dinner/Talk | Cecelia Ramsey | TBD | |
| Lunch/Talk | — | — | |
| Champagne Tasting (Black Tie) | David Lamb | TBD | |
| Fellowes Meeting | — | — | |
| Lunch/Talk | — | — | |
| Dinner/Talk | Mitch Weiss | TBD | |
| Lunch/Talk | — | — | |
| Dinner/Talk | Neil Thackaberry | TBD | |
| Lunch/Talk | — | — | |
| Dinner/Talk | Dan Dixon | TBD | |
| Closed for Good Friday | — | — | |
| Dinner/Talk | — | — | |
| Fellowes Meeting | — | — | |
| Dinner/Talk | John Grabowski | TBD | |
| Lunch/Talk | — | — | |
| Dinner/Talk | Mark Bernheim | TBD | |
| Lunch/Talk | — | — | |
| Dinner/Talk | Mark Dawidziak | TBD | |
| Lunch/Talk | — | — | |
| Dinner/Talk | Susan Condon Love | TBD | |
| Lunch/Talk | — | — | |
| Fellowes Meeting | — | — | |
| Lunch/Talk | — | — | |
| Dinner/Talk | [Raymond Thompson - TBC] | TBD | |
| Lunch/Talk | — | — | |
| Dinner/Talk | — | — | |
| Lunch/Talk | — | — | |
| Closing Dinner/Talk (Black Tie) | [Pending invitation] | — | |
| Fellowes Meeting | — | — | |
| Picnic | — | — | |
| Rowfant Friday Luncheon | — | — | |
| Picnic | — | — | |
| Rowfant Friday Luncheon | — | — | |
| Picnic | — | — |
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