How does a book club meet during quarantine? Joanne from Columbia, a member of the Ladies Eat and Read Society, says its been a virtual experience: "While we occasionally took turns talking so we could hear and respond to each other clearly, the familiar cacophony of all our voices together was comforting. We were us!" Read the rest of her letter to us: mdhs.org/underbelly/2020/05/06/letters-from-the-homefront-virtual-book-club-meeting Read other letters from fellow Marylanders about the effects of the current pandemic in our "underbelly" blog at mdhs.org/underbelly. Submit your letter to lettersfromthehomefront@mdhs.org. Image: Portrait of Elizabeth Foreman Lewis reading, photograph by unidentified photographer, undated, PP92.119. Emily Spencer Hayden Photograph Collection, PP92, H. Furlong Baldwin Library, Maryland Historical Society. #CollectingInQuarantineMD #LettersFromtheHomeFrontMD #MarylandHistory #BookClub #bookstagrammer