{"id":6895,"date":"2014-11-11T08:59:09","date_gmt":"2014-11-11T13:59:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.brown.edu\/libnews\/?p=6895"},"modified":"2014-11-11T08:59:09","modified_gmt":"2014-11-11T13:59:09","slug":"beth-taylor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/beth-taylor\/","title":{"rendered":"Lecture | Letters Home: Brown Alumni at War | Beth Taylor"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Brown Town, 1946. Temporary housing for veterans of World War II erected near Marvel Gymnasium on the city-owned Sessions Street playground at the corner of Elmgrove Avenue and Sessions Street, Providence, RI<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

On Wednesday, November 12 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library, Beth Taylor, Senior Lecturer in English, will give a talk, “Letters Home: Brown Alumni at War.” Taylor, who is co-director of Brown’s Nonfiction Writing Program, has been\u00a0collecting oral histories, documents, photographs, memorabilia, and letters home from veterans or widows of veterans.<\/span><\/p>\n

This lecture is part of\u00a0series at the John Hay Library<\/a>\u00a0celebrating the University\u2019s 250-year history. All lectures in the series highlight the University Archives\u2019 “Elements of Tradition and Change” exhibit<\/a>.<\/span><\/address>\n
The next lecture in the series will take place on Thursday, December 4 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lownes Room, with\u00a0Luther Spoehr, Senior Lecturer in Education. Spoehr’s talk is entitled, “Wayland and Magaziner and (Much) More: The Brown Curriculum through the Years.”<\/span><\/address>\n

Date:\u00a0<\/strong>Wednesday, November 12, 2014
Location:\u00a0<\/strong>Lownes Room, John Hay Library
Time:\u00a0<\/strong>5:30 p.m.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On Wednesday, November 12 at 5:30 p.m. in the Lownes Room of the John Hay Library, Beth Taylor, Senior Lecturer in English, will give a talk, “Letters Home: Brown Alumni at War.” Taylor, who is co-director of Brown’s Nonfiction Writing Program, has been\u00a0collecting oral histories, documents, photographs, memorabilia, and letters home from veterans or widows … Lecture | Letters Home: Brown Alumni at War | Beth Taylor<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":107,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6895","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895","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\/107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6895"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6895\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6895"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6895"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6895"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}