DOVER — “Stephen Greene's Lions of Italy,” an exhibit of black-and-white photographs by the late West Dover bookseller and publisher Stephen Greene, will be displayed this month at Dover Free Library in West Dover.
Greene is fondly remembered by many in the area for having founded, with his wife, Janet, the Book Cellar bookstore in Brattleboro in the late 1950s and The Stephen Greene Press.
He would have turned 100 this December.
Photographing Italy's stone lions from antiquity was a passion for Greene, who planned to collect the commanding visages into a book before his untimely death. Fierce and sometimes comical, no two lions alike, the animals hail from such diverse locales as Venice, Turin, Assisi, and Florence.
The photos represent the ultimate in viewing a country and its cultural heritage off the proverbial beaten path.
Fifteen of Greene's photos will be on display in the Dover Free Library's Community Room. The public is cordially invited to a reception there on Nov. 18 from 5 to 7 p.m.