About the Institute
Since 2000, the Doylestown Institute has provided a congenial home for independent scholars doing research outside of the boundaries of their profession or vocation. At quarterly dinner meetings, the Fellows of the Institute gather to hear presentations and to enjoy the company of other creative and curious men. All in a cigar-friendly environment.
To date, the Doylestown Institute has hosted more than 80 lectures in a range of disciplines including nineteenth-century popular musicology, New Jersey autochthonic pottery, and UFOs in religious history. Some presentations to the Doylestown Institute are published in the Institute's journal, Occasional Papers of the Doylestown Institute.
While Institute presentations are first-rate and debates are vigorous, meetings of the Doylestown Institute are informal and friendly, and the cost of membership and attending as a guest is modest.
The Doylestown Institute is a proud establishment dedicated to the preservation of humidor integrity and the subtle art of gathering knowledge for the sake of gathering knowledge. Founded on a passion for refinement and a commitment to not taking things too seriously, we offer a community for like-minded individuals. The Fellows of the Institute work in a range of fields: law, poetry, brewing, politics, engineering, pastoral ministry, information technology, research chemistry, international development, and historic building preservation. What binds this diverse group of men together is a desire to discover the interesting thing in unobvious places.