{"id":4428,"date":"2012-10-02T09:57:08","date_gmt":"2012-10-02T13:57:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=4428"},"modified":"2012-10-02T09:57:08","modified_gmt":"2012-10-02T13:57:08","slug":"author-charles-rappleye-to-give-first-readings-lecture","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/author-charles-rappleye-to-give-first-readings-lecture\/","title":{"rendered":"Author Charles Rappleye to Give First Readings Lecture"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Charles Rappleye is the author of Sons of Providence<\/a><\/em>. On October 3rd, at 5 p.m., Mr. Rappeleye\u00a0will give a lecture titled “Past & Present” where he\u00a0will discuss a variety of topics including\u2014what he learned\u00a0while writing Sons of Providence<\/em>, how it changed his thinking about Brown University\u00a0and early New England, and what it means to be an American both in the present and in the late 1700’s. The talk will be in Salomon\u00a0on the Main Green.<\/p>\n

If you can\u2019t make it to the talk you can watch it online. It will be streamed live on the Brown live stream page<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The talk will be of interest to many first-year students who read\u00a0Sons of Providence <\/em>as part of the First Readings program.\u00a0First Readings is Brown\u2019s summer reading project for all new students. Now in its sixth year, the program provides first-year and transfer students with a common reading experience that introduces them to the University and to the pleasures and rigors of undergraduate academic life.<\/p>\n

Charles Rappleye\u00a0was an award-winning investigative journalist and editor. He lives in Los Angeles.<\/p>\n

Also of note, this is the last week to see the Rhode Island Slavery and the University<\/a> <\/em>exhibit at the John Hay Library which was created in support of the Sons of Providence <\/em>and the First Readings program.<\/p>\n

Both events are free and open to the public.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Charles Rappleye is the author of Sons of Providence. On October 3rd, at 5 p.m., Mr. Rappeleye\u00a0will give a lecture titled “Past & Present” where he\u00a0will discuss a variety of topics including\u2014what he learned\u00a0while writing Sons of Providence, how it changed his thinking about Brown University\u00a0and early New England, and what it means to be … Author Charles Rappleye to Give First Readings Lecture<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428","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\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4428\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}