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Newest Artist's Book from Charles Hobson

The latest work from book artist Charles Hobson's Pacific Editions is very nearly seaworthy. Ancient Mariner is Roger Angell's memoir of more than sixty years of sailing in Maine. Sails from a model sailboat are sewn into the book, such that to view the last page, the reader must jib the mainsail. The book, which is limited to 39 copies, was published in the spring of 2009.

 

The Lafayette (Student Newspaper), 1870-2007, is now online

The Lafayette, the oldest college newspaper in Pennsylvania, is now available online. More than 4,000 issues have been digitized with funding from the Friends of Skillman Library. The Lafayette began publication in September 1870. It has been at times a monthly, a fortnightly, a weekly, and a semi-weekly, and has been published continuously since 1870, except during the last two years of World War II.

 

Exhibits & Programs

Islam in Africa: A Pilgrimage to Touba, Senegal. Photographs by David Katzenstein

The exhibition documents the annual Islamic pilgrimage to the west African city of Touba, Senegal, by the Mouride brotherhood, a Sufi group founded by Cheikh Amadou Bamba. This annual Magel is a time of great joy for all who participate and poetry, song, and ecstatic moments have been captured by Katzenstein's remarkable photographs. Photographer's Talk: February 11, 4:15 pm, Room 206, Skillman Library

 

Parini’s Picks: Thirteen Books that Changed America

The winter of 2008 marked the publication of Promised Land: Thirteen Books that Changed America by poet, novelist, critic, and distinguished Lafayette alumnus Jay Parini ’70. According to Parini, these are “works that helped to create the intellectual and emotional contours of this country.”