{"id":2372,"date":"2011-12-01T13:12:38","date_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=2372"},"modified":"2011-12-01T13:12:38","modified_gmt":"2011-12-01T18:12:38","slug":"paul-campbell-of-providence-city-archives-presents-treasures-in-the-citys-attic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/paul-campbell-of-providence-city-archives-presents-treasures-in-the-citys-attic\/","title":{"rendered":"Paul Campbell of Providence City Archives Presents &#8220;Treasures in the City&#8217;s Attic&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a rel=\"attachment wp-att-2373\" href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/2011\/12\/01\/paul-campbell-of-providence-city-archives-presents-treasures-in-the-citys-attic\/attachment\/3\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-2373\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2011\/12\/3-300x187.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"187\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2011\/12\/3-300x187.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2011\/12\/3-768x479.jpg 768w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2011\/12\/3.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2011\/12\/3-100x62.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2011\/12\/3-150x94.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2011\/12\/3-200x125.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2011\/12\/3-450x281.jpg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2011\/12\/3-600x374.jpg 600w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2011\/12\/3-900x562.jpg 900w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><strong>PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] &#8211;<\/strong> On Saturday, December 10, Paul Campbell of the Providence City Archives will give a talk entitled<strong> &#8220;Treasures in the City&#8217;s Attic: Recent Discoveries at the Providence City Archives&#8221;<\/strong> in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library from 12-1:30pm, along with a viewing of the Roger Williams exhibit, &#8220;The Art of Roger Williams: Providence at 375.&#8221; Campbell will focus on the recent discoveries at the City Archives and the 1648 charter. <em>This event is free and open to the public.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>Campbell has been a Providence City Archivist since July 2010, and previously served as Director of the RI Historical Society Library for eight years. He is the author and co-author of eight books on Rhode Island.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/2011\/08\/26\/celebrate-providences-375th-at-three-exhibits-this-fall\/\">The Art of Roger Williams: Providence at 375<\/a> <\/em><\/strong>exhibit runs through December 30, 2011 in the Gammell Gallery, John Hay Library, and  features three hundred years of Williamsonia from the Hay\u2019s  Special Collections, the personal collections of Al Klyberg, and other  local collections. Among the objects on display are a rare and  significant <em>Eliot Bible<\/em>, a Bible translated into the Natick  dialect of the region\u2019s Algonquin tribes to aid in the propagation of  the scriptures. This particular Bible is likewise believed to have  belonged to Roger Williams, and is inscribed with shorthand attributed  to him. <em>The Art of Roger Williams: Providence at 375<\/em><strong><em> <\/em><\/strong>is funded by the Rhode Island Council for the Humanities.<\/p>\n<p align=\"center\"><b>Contact:<\/b> <a href=\"mailto:jennifer_braga@brown.edu\">Jennifer Braga<\/a> |\u00a0 401-863-6913<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\">###<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University] &#8211; On Saturday, December 10, Paul Campbell of the Providence City Archives will give a talk entitled &#8220;Treasures in the City&#8217;s Attic: Recent Discoveries at the Providence City Archives&#8221; in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library from 12-1:30pm, along with a viewing of the Roger Williams exhibit, &#8220;The Art <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/paul-campbell-of-providence-city-archives-presents-treasures-in-the-citys-attic\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Paul Campbell of Providence City Archives Presents &#8220;Treasures in the City&#8217;s Attic&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":172,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2372","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/172"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2372"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2372\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2372"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2372"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2372"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}