A journal of rediscovery
Kathryn Hujda is an assistant curator at the Performing Arts Archives and Upper Midwest Literary Archives, University of Minnesota Libraries Archives and Special Collections. This is the second part of a two-part interview. Click here to read part one. MG: What is a special collection? KH: Special collections contain
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The obelisk rises above the trees like the uncurling index finger of something ancient reaching for the distant stars. The monument is inscribed in the faded hieroglyphs of a dead language, and at its base are four distinctly more modern black stone crabs that seem to be supporting the
– Poor Yorick is proud to introduce our partner Royal Albert Memorial Museum and Art Gallery (RAMM) located in Exeter, Devon, United Kingdom. RAMM’s statement of purpose summarizes the museum’s missions and reputation: The Royal Albert Memorial Museum & Art Gallery (RAMM) is a service of Exeter City Council. It
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The first time I finally went to a record store, I found a slightly beat up copy of Cat Stevens’ Teaser and the Firecat. My dad had always mentioned that his dad, my grandfather, had loved Cat Stevens. He died long before I was ever born, and the album got
By Beth D. Man “Why am I sad? Oh! lonely ever / Mourn I all afar from me / The foreign land is fair, but never / like my pleasant home can be.”1 This lonely verse is part of a poem titled “A Song of Home,” by Sarah Tabor.
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by Carolyn Bernier What [does] it feel like to be the world’s best-known museum button? @MPMsnake1 @CarolynBarolyn I’m happy to have rattled my way into so many hearts.2 -Twitter conversation between the author and the Milwaukee Public Museum’s rattlesnake button, August 24 and 29, 2016. The rattlesnake button at Milwaukee
Holly Iglesias’s lively, ekphrastic poem responding to the painting The Battle Between Carnival and Lent. … Continue readingThe Battle Between Carnival and Lent by Holly Iglesias
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Truman Warner served in World War II as a medic. He then went on to a career as a professor, author, and historian. He captured much of the war in his photos and clippings. All of these materials have since been preserved in a digital archive at Western Connecticut State
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