The above letter is from David J. Livingston ’53 who attended a scheduled Josiah Carberry lecture in New York on September 13 in hopes of catching a glimpse of the world-renowned scholar. Those familiar with this blog might remember that two weeks ago, on September 13, Professor Josiah Carberry was scheduled to attend a screening … A Friend of the Library Sends a Letter Regarding Professor Carberry

Commander David R. Scott  is the first guest in this fall’s Digital Speaker Series. Scott will describe his journey to the Moon in the summer of 1971 and the Apollo 15’s exploration of the Apennine Mountains, the Hadley Rille, and the plains of Mare Imbrium. Scott and fellow astronauts Jim Irwin, and Al Worden also … Commander David R. Scott in the DSL on September 26

Eyal Press ’92, author of Beautiful Souls, is delivering this year’s First Readings lecture. It will be held in Salomon Center at 4:30 p.m. If you can’t make it to campus, the lecture will be streaming on Brown’s LiveWebcast. First Readings is a summer reading project for all new Brown students. Now in its seventh year, … First Readings Lecture on September 17th

  For years, the Brown Community has yearned for someone to put that movie about Josiah Carberry online. Even before the internet existed, the followers of Josiah S. Carberry would badger anyone with computer knowledge to invent something that would allow Made Not Born: The Wife and Dimes of Josiah S. Carberry to be more widely available. … Made Not Born: The Wife and Dimes of Josiah S. Carberry is Available Online

Everything about the history and legend of Josiah S. Carberry can seem bigger, faster, and more intense than any other history or legend in the world. The facts or general lack of them can overwhelm even the best and brightest scholars. While we have for decades known about Carberry’s ungrammatical wife Laura, his daughters Patricia … Professor Josiah S. Carberry’s Thirty Under Thirty

PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] — Brown University Library has purchased a copy of the first edition of Francis Glisson’s De Rachitide sive Morbo Puerili, qui volgo The Rickets in honor of Christina Hull Paxson, Brown University’s nineteenth president. The volume was acquired not only because of its rarity but also because of its subject matter concerning childhood … Brown University Library Acquires Rare Book in Honor of President Paxson