10:30 a.m. - Mencken Society Annual Meeting with guest speaker, Marion Elizabeth Rodgers, editor of H. L. Mencken: The Days Trilogy, Expanded Edition (The Library of America, 2014).

2 p.m. - The 2014 Mencken Memorial Lecture: "H. L. Mencken: Racist or Civil Rights Champion?," presented by Larry S. Gibson, professor of law at the University of Maryland School of Law. Gibson is a practicing lawyer with the firm of Shapiro, Sher, Guinot, and Sandler and the author of Young Thurgood: The Making of a Supreme Court Justice. Reception and book signing immediately following in the second floor corridor.

The Mencken Room is open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m.

New exhibits: Mencken and the Egorin Gift; Mencken, the Baltimore Fire, and the Hampe Gift; Mencken, Music and the Schellhase Gift.