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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
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.”
Madona del Maiz: The Virgin of Guadalupe in Iowa
Photographs by Marguerite Nicosia Torres document an immigrant community’s devotion to Mexico’s patron saint, Our Lady of Guadalupe. The exhibition explores the preservation of this religious and cultural heritage through the rituals and traditions honoring the Virgin of Guadalupe in Marshalltown, Iowa.
