Special Collections & Archives

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.”

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.