{"id":5735,"date":"2013-11-06T14:17:39","date_gmt":"2013-11-06T19:17:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=5735"},"modified":"2013-11-06T14:17:39","modified_gmt":"2013-11-06T19:17:39","slug":"brown-university-celebrates-the-return-of-rush-hawkins-sword","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/brown-university-celebrates-the-return-of-rush-hawkins-sword\/","title":{"rendered":"Brown University Celebrates the Return of Rush Hawkins&#8217; Sword"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2013\/09\/Sword1_0.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignright size-medium wp-image-5738\" alt=\"\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/files\/2013\/09\/Sword1_0-300x200.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"200\" srcset=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/09\/Sword1_0-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/09\/Sword1_0-100x67.jpg 100w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/09\/Sword1_0-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/09\/Sword1_0-200x133.jpg 200w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/09\/Sword1_0-450x300.jpg 450w, https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/44\/2013\/09\/Sword1_0.jpg 510w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]<\/strong>\u2014On Thursday, November 7, 2013 at 3pm Brown University Library will host a celebration to welcome back\u00a0Rush Hawkins&#8217;\u00a0Civil War-era silver Tiffany presentation sword to\u00a0the Annmary Brown Memorial. The sword was stolen from the University\u2019s collections in 1977, and is returning to the Memorial following a case in The U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia which identified Brown University as the lawful owner. Curators, attorneys, and historians will discuss the social history of Hawkins&#8217; sword, and its remarkable journey back to campus. The Higher Keys, Brown\u2019s esteemed co-ed a cappella group, will perform. The Annmary Brown Memorial is located at 21 Brown Street in Providence, RI. This event is free and open to the public. Refreshments will be served.<\/p>\n<p><strong>The Brown University Library<\/strong>\u00a0is home to more than 6.8 million print items, plus a multitude of electronic resources and expanding digital archives serving the teaching, research, and learning needs of Brown students and faculty, as well as scholars from around the country and the world.<a href=\"http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/\">\u00a0http:\/\/library.brown.edu\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><strong>Contact:<\/strong> Courtney Coelho | <a href=\"tel:401-863-7287\">401-863-7287<\/a> | Courtney_Coelho@brown.edu<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>PROVIDENCE, R.I. [Brown University]\u2014On Thursday, November 7, 2013 at 3pm Brown University Library will host a celebration to welcome back\u00a0Rush Hawkins&#8217;\u00a0Civil War-era silver Tiffany presentation sword to\u00a0the Annmary Brown Memorial. The sword was stolen from the University\u2019s collections in 1977, and is returning to the Memorial following a case in The U.S. District Court for <a href=\"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/brown-university-celebrates-the-return-of-rush-hawkins-sword\/\" class=\"more-link\">&#8230;<span class=\"screen-reader-text\">  Brown University Celebrates the Return of Rush Hawkins&#8217; Sword<\/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":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5735","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735","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=5735"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5735\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5735"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5735"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5735"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}