Happy St. Patrick’s Day! What better day to check out our new Joyce exhibit–Exile Among Expats! Also, a hat tip to the Biblioklept blog for reminding me of the great humorous recounting of Irish heroes in the Cyclops episode of Ulysses (the blog also has a scan of Joyce’s appearance in the 1901 Irish census): …
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Six Degrees Revisited
As I mentioned a couple of weeks back in my original 6 Degrees of Rosenbach post, it’s slightly scary sometimes how many connections there are between disparate items in the Rosenbach collection. This was brought back to me (again) in a conversation with our Librarian, Elizabeth Fuller, after an event we held last week with …
And the Award Goes To…
Inspired by this week’s Oscars, which I did in fact watch, it seemed a fitting time to highlight some of the various awards and medals in the Rosenbach’s collection. (By the way, if you’ve seen The King’s Speech you might enjoy this Washington Post article about history and the movies) I thought I’d start with …
The Rosenbach Can Boost Your Quizzo Score
Quick, what 1885 poem by Hoosier poet James Whitcomb Riley was the namesake of a comic strip that debuted in 1924? This exact question came up when I was playing Quizzo with some friends on Tuesday night. (If you are not familiar with it, Quizzo is a bar trivia game played on teams) It was …
It’s Coming…
Exile Among Expats: James Joyce in Paris opens next Wednesday and we’re hard at work… While you’re waiting for Joyce, here are a couple random news tidbits to keep you busy: Last week, marine archaeologists in Hawaii announced that they’d found the shipwrecked remains of the whale ship Two Brothers, captained by George Pollard. Why …
February 10: A Bad Day for Mary Rowlandson
Just after sunrise on February 10, 1676 the town of Lancaster, Massachusetts was attacked as part of King Philip’s War. (At the time it would have still been considered 1675, since the new year did not begin until March 1) The town’s minister, Joseph Rowlandson, was away in Boston seeking defense aid from the colonial …
Roses and Rosy
It’s been a good week for the Rosenbach, what with coverage about the Sendak mural from the Philadelphia Inquirer and NPR as well as lots of other great press! If the stories got you intrigued, you should stop by on Wednesdays from 12-1 or from 6-7 to see the mural conservation in action. I’ve had …
On the Road
Somewhat in line with the six degrees of Rosenbach idea, one of the things I like about working here is how often I’ll go someplace else and run into things with a Rosenbach connection. I’ve blogged about this before, as in last year’s post about Paige M Gutenborg, but I had another Rosenbach moment last …
Six Degrees Revealed
For those of you who have been eagerly awaiting the exciting conclusion of last week’s six degrees game, here are some chains I came up with (drum roll please). Once again, these are only my off-the-cuff thoughts and there may be more elegant solutions–if you know of one, let’s hear it! James Joyce to Marianne …
Six Degrees of Rosenbach
No, that isn’t a reference to the temperature outside, but to the familiar six-degrees of separation game, in which you try to link disparate people through a chain of acquaintances, relations, influences, etc. (By the way, Truman Capote had a racier version he called the International Daisy Chain, which involved linking folks via sex partners–he …