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Lawrence Welcomes Authors for Fox Cities Book Festival
Get PDFLawrence University will host visits by three authors and a documentary film screening in conjunction with the 6th annual Fox Cities Book Festival. All events are free and open to the public. Lawrence is one of the sponsors of the book festival.
Writer and neuroscientist Lisa Genova, author of the New York Times’ bestsellers “Love Anthony,” “Still Alice” and “Left Neglected” speaks Friday, April 19 at 6:30 p.m. in Harper Hall. Genova, who writes “about people living with neurological diseases and conditions that are feared, ignored, or misunderstood,” has appeared on Dr. Oz and CNN and was featured in the Emmy Award-winning documentary film about Alzheimer’s, “To Not Fade Away.”
Humorist Michael Perry, author of the memoirs “Population 485: Meeting Your Neighbors One Siren at a Time,” “Truck: A Love Story” and “Coop: A Year of Poultry, Pigs and Parenting,” appears Saturday, April 20 at 12 noon in the Warch Campus Center.
Perry, who grew up on a small dairy farm and today makes his home in rural Wisconsin, has written for The New York Times Magazine as well as Esquire, Outside and Backpacker magazines and is a contributing editor to Men’s Health.
Award-winning Canadian food journalist Jennifer Cockrall-King discusses her book “Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution” Monday, April 22 at 7 p.m. in Thomas Steitz Hall of Science Room 102.
Cockrall-King examines alternative food systems in cities around the globe that are shortening their food chains, growing food within their city limits and taking their “food security” into their own hands Monday, April 22 at 7 p.m. in Thomas Steitz Hall of Science Room 102. Her appearance is supported by Lawrence’s Spoerl Lecture in Science and Society.
The film “Chasing Ice,” a documentary by National Geographic photographer James Balog will be shown Tuesday, April 16 at 7 p.m. in the Warch Campus Center cinema. The film follows Balog’s journey across the Arctic documenting melting glaciers over a three-year period. A discussion will be held following the screening
Western medieval legal manuscripts in the collections of the University of Pennsylvania
No full textWestern legal manuscripts of the Middle Ages in North American collections are among the least known to scholars. The University of Pennsylvania has a rich collection of these texts, several of which were in the collection of the historian Henry Charles Lea. Included are works of civil law and canon law, as well as collections of papal letters and guides to pastoral care. The descriptions of most of these manuscripts in the catalog of Norman P. Zacour and Rudolf Hirsch are perfunctory, sometimes erring or omitting valuable information. Other manuscripts were added in recent years in the Lawrence J. Schoenberg Collection. Much of this material is being added to the Franklin online catalog of the University’s libraries, but researchers frequently do not search these digital resources. This article provides more complete guidance to the University’s medieval legal manuscripts than any of the existing catalogs offers, whether in print or online. It also provides updated bibliographic information in print or online. Every manuscript has been examined by the author in situ. Among the important works represented in the collection is the Panormia (a work of canon law often attributed to Ivo of Chartres). Authors present include the curialist Thomas of Capua, canonists Petrus de Braco, William of Pagula, Bernardus Raimundi, Adam of Aldersbach, Raymond of Peñafort, and civil lawyers Baldus de Ubaldis, and Bartolus de Saxoferrato. Three of these manuscripts were owned in the past by Sir Thomas Phillipps
Urban Agriculture Focus of Author Presentation
Get PDFAward-winning Canadian food journalist Jennifer Cockrall-King discusses alternative food systems in a Lawrence University presentation Monday, April 22 at 7 p.m. in Thomas Steitz Hall of Science Room 102. Cockrall-King’s appearance, sponsored by Lawrence’s Spoerl Lecture in Science and Society, is free and open to the public.
Based on her book “Food and the City: Urban Agriculture and the New Food Revolution,” the address examines food systems in cities around the world that are shortening their food chains by utilizing community gardens, collective orchards and vertical farms within their city limits and taking “food security” into their own hands.
“Food and the City” received the 2011 Dave Greber Freelance Book Award, a Canadian national award that recognizes excellence in social justice writing. Cockrall-King’s appearance is part of the 2013 Fox Cities Book Festival
Professor David McGlynn Delivers Fox Cities Book Festival Address
Get PDFLawrence University Associate Professor of English David McGlynn delivers the talk “From Essay to Memoir: The Conversion of a Door in the Ocean” Wednesday, April 24 at 7 p.m. at Thomas A. Lyons Fine Books, 124 W. Wisconsin Ave., Suite 140, Neenah, as part of the 2013 Fox Cities Book Festival. Lawrence is one of the co-sponsors of the book festival, now in its sixth year.
Last month McGlynn was named recipient of the Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Kenneth Kingery/August Derleth Nonfiction Book Award for “A Door in the Ocean,” which traces McGlynn’s journey from competitive swimming and family tragedy through radical evangelicalism and adult life.
He also is the author of the 2008 book “The End of the Straight and Narrow,” a collection of nine short stories that examines the inner lives, passions and desires of the zealous and the ways religious faith is both the compass for navigating daily life and the force that makes ordinary life impossible. His fiction and creative nonfiction works also have appeared in numerous literary journals, including Alaska Quarterly Review, Image, and Shenandoah.
In 2009, the Council for Wisconsin Writers recognized McGlynn with its annual Kay W. Levin Short Nonfiction Award for his essay “Hydrophobia,” which appeared in the Missouri Review
Family and Friends Photographed in Front of the Lawrence County Courthouse
No full textFamilies and friends pictured in front of the Louisa Courthouse in Lawrence County: Thomas N. Yates, Carter County Attorney; Commonwealth’s Attorney John M. Waugh, Honorable Allan N. Cisco, Circuit Judge -32nd Judicial District, Wm Schwartz, witness, drummer - Cynthiana, Alley Jack Caywood, witness, blacksmith, Beautyville, Fleming County, Anna McClain, witness and friend of Stella at Beautyville, Basil Hatfield Kinney and Mary Mahala Frasure-Kinney, parents of the lovely Stella (Mary Mahala was sister to Robert S. Frasure, the murderer), Lottie Caywood, witness and neighbor to Frasure in Fleming County, Margaret E. Fultz, court stenographer and true crime author - Boyd County, John Kinney, brother to Basil Hatfield, child in front - Lula Mae Kirk, friend to Mrs. Caywood, Man in the window - Lawrence County Clerk and the four men in the doorway are unidentified
Douglas M. Knight, President, 1954-1963
No full textAbout Douglas M. Knight (1921-2005)
Douglas Maitland Knight was thirty-two years old when he became president of Lawrence College, the youngest president in Lawrence\u27s history. Knight received three degrees from Yale: his A.B. in 1942, the M.A. in 1944, and the Ph.D. in 1946. He taught English at Yale for several years before becoming president of Lawrence.
During Knight\u27s nine-year tenure, the geographic diversity of the student body increased, the curriculum underwent extensive study, resulting in the addition of Sophomore Studies, Junior Departmental Readings, and a focus on the sciences and non-European studies, and several buildings were completed or planned, including Colman Hall, Plantz Hall, the Music-Drama Center, and the Samuel Appleton addition to the Carnegie Library. Knight left Lawrence to become president of Duke University in 1963. He is the author of several books, many of which are available in the library (see below). Additional information about Dr. Knight may be found in the Lawrence University archives.
About the artist
Thomas Dietrich, Artist-in-Residence at Lawrence University from 1944 to 1974, gained fame in Wisconsin and beyond for his watercolors of Fox Valley and Door County landscapes, bridges, factories, and people. More than 1,000 of his paintings are in public and private collections throughout the United States.
An Appleton native, Dietrich attended the Experimental College of the University of Wisconsin, with further study at the Cincinnati Art Academy and the Minneapolis School of Art. During his thirty-years on the faculty at the University he taught hundreds of art students, exhibited his works throughout the U.S., and won numerous regional and national art prizes.
An artist who worked in a variety of media, he designed the stained glass windows at Memorial Presbyterian Church on College Avenue and created windows for at least seventy other churches throughout the U.S. Nonetheless, his major legacy consists of a large body of watercolor and oil paintings that capture the spirit of the Fox Valley. The University has twenty-three works by Dietrich in its collection. We are fortunate to exhibit several in this gallery.https://lux.lawrence.edu/presidentialportraits/1004/thumbnail.jp
Thomas Merton and the Monastic Vision
Get PDFAuthor: Cunningham, Lawrence S. Title: Thomas Merton and the monastic vision xii. Publisher: Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1999. Series: Library of religious biography
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The electric shepherd and the marvellous boy: literary evocations of Thomas Chatterton's 'suicide' in Philip K. Dick's 'A scanner darkly' and elsewhere
No full textRecent Decisions
No full textComments on recent decisions by Arthur C. Callaghan, Thomas Meaney, Jr., Richard John Audino, Richard R. Murphy, Robert L. Berry, Joseph F. MacKrell, William J. Hurley, Wallace F. Neyerlin, Lawrence S. May, Jr., Richard F. Welter, Martin J. Rodgers, Anthony V. Amodio, and Robert F. McCoy
Recent Decisions
Get PDFComments on recent decisions by Arthur C. Callaghan, Thomas Meaney, Jr., Richard John Audino, Richard R. Murphy, Robert L. Berry, Joseph F. MacKrell, William J. Hurley, Wallace F. Neyerlin, Lawrence S. May, Jr., Richard F. Welter, Martin J. Rodgers, Anthony V. Amodio, and Robert F. McCoy
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