It’s been a busy week at the Rosenbach. We started out the week with the annual docent trip, which focused this year on two of our hometown treasures: the rare book department at the Free Library and Bartram’s Garden. Monday morning did not look auspicious, as the rain poured down during the morning rush hour, …
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Happy Poetry Month
T.S. Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land, may describe April as the cruelest month, but that’s only because National Poetry Month hadn’t been established yet. National Poetry Month was inaugurated in 1996 to “highlight the extraordinary legacy and ongoing achievement of American poets” and to”introduce more Americans to the pleasures of reading poetry,” among other laudable …
Earth Day at the Rosenbach
[This week’s post is by our able collections intern Jessica Walthew] Today’s post, on this beautiful, sunny day, is in celebration of Earth Day. Founded 40 years ago, Earth Day was created as a day for us to think about our planet and how we treat it. Here at the Rosenbach we’ve been enjoying our …
Faux Ford
Today is not only tax day, but also the 145 anniversary of the death of Abraham Lincoln. Lincoln was shot on April 14, 1865 while attending a performance of Our American Cousin, lingered through the night without regaining consciousness, and died at 7:22 A.M. on April 15, 1865. One of the items in our current …
Dino-mania
I like dinosaurs. I always have. I grew up in Stamford, CT and therefore was ideally placed to enjoy the dinosaurs at the Peabody Museum at Yale (click here to see some old-school Peabody postcards from the Marianne Moore collection) and the American Museum of Natural History in NYC. I guess I was destined for …
Double Your Pleasure, Double Your Fun with Doublets
A few nights ago I was reading through a parenting magazine that I somehow became subscribed to (I think it may have come free with something I bought on Amazon?) and I saw an ad for the new version of the Electric Company on PBS. Some of you may remember the original Electric Company,which aired …
Around the Web
This has been a fairly odds-and-ends week for me–a little cataloging, several public tours, reading applications for summer internships, tracking down object sizes for this summer’s Westward Ho! exhibit. Nothing especially noteworthy, so I thought I’d devote this blog entry to some really cool Internet finds that have come across my desk. First, courtesy of …
Road Trips
After last weekend’s cold and gloom, it has been a beautiful sunny week here in Philadelphia–the kind of week that makes me glad that I work only three blocks from Rittenhouse Square and can soak in the sun on my lunch break. It’s also the kind of weather that gets me in the mood for …
Personals with Personality
Our fabulous collection intern Joanna Hoover has been going through our Civil-War-era newspapers and creating summaries, to be used in our upcoming Civil War 150 web project (coming this fall to a computer near you!). She admitted to me that she wasn’t expecting much from this January 26, 1861 issue of The New York Herald–after …
Quick Correction: Carroll Tours Are March 10, 14, and 19th
In my last post I noted that I will be giving three Carroll-themed hands-on tours this month in honor of the movie. However I incorrectly gave the third date as March 17th, when it really should be March 19th (I think my mind was somewhere through the looking glass as I was typing furiously to …