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Spielman Book Launch in Ithaca, NY
by, Jill Swenson
August 1, 2017

Linda J. Spielman gave a presentation at the Nevins Center in the Cornell University Botanic Garden on July 16 at an event which celebrated the launch of her new book, A Field Guide to Tracking Mammals in the Northeast (Countryman Press/W.W. Norton). This wasn’t like any other book launch I’ve ever been to and I mean that in a good way. Cornell University provided eight… [Read More]

Filed Under: A Field Guide to Tracking Mammals in the Northeast, Cornell University, Countryman Press, evidence, Linda J. Spielman, science, tracking
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For the love of (old) books: Cornell University Kroch Library Division of Rare & Manuscript Collections
by, Jill Swenson
September 1, 2012

Labor Day weekend is an omen of the new school year. It’s an exciting time of year for those who love books. Last fall Lindsay Debach shared this adventure on the campus of Cornell University when she toured the unique collection of manuscripts and rare books. This fall Lindsay begins her graduate students in English Literature in the UK. We wish her well in her… [Read More]

Filed Under: A.D. White, Cornell University, Dickens, Faulkner, Gutenberg, Harry Potter, Kroch Library, Lance Heidig, Lindsay Debach, Nabokov, Rare and Manuscript Collections, Steve Jobs, Tina Fey
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Lincoln’s Gift from Homer, New York
by, Jill Swenson
May 1, 2012

Martin Sweeney from Homer, NY, has written a captivating account of three native sons who played pivotal roles in Abraham Lincoln’s presidency and the United States’ history. [Martin Sweeney, Lincoln’s Gift from Homer, New York: A Painter, an Editor and a Detective, McFarland & Company, Inc., 2011.] The painter, Francis Carpenter, brushed “The First Reading of the Emancipation Proclamation before the Cabinet”—the iconic image of… [Read More]

Filed Under: Amelia Jenks Bloomer, Andrew White, Civil War, Cornell University, Eli Devoe, elizabeth Candy Stanton, Francis Bicknell Carpenter, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Homer, Lincoln, NY, Seneca Falls, Susan B. Anthony, William Seward, William Stoddard
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