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Stephanie Mathson interviews poet and author Jack Ridl
No full textPoet and author Jack Ridl explains how he began writing, the writer series at Hope College, his coach poems, his chapbook "Against elegies," how working and living in Michigan shapes his work, and works in progress. Ridl is interviewed by Stephanie Mathson of the Michigan State University Libraries. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series
Poet and author Jack Ridl reads his selected works at the Michigan Writers Series
No full textPoet and author Jack Ridl reads his selected poems. The event is convened by Peter Berg, head of Michigan State University Libraries' Special Collections. Part of the MSU Libraries' Michigan Writers Series. Held at the Main Library
Frankenstein Castle Fun House at Rugby Spring Fair
No full textG. Chadwick's Frankenstein Castle fun house, whole angled side view photographed at Rugby Spring Fair, 20 March 1970 on Rugby Cattle Market
Jack Rosema and the early dairy farms of the Tri-Cities
No full textJack Rosema was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan and moved to Grand Haven as a young child. His father managed the family farm in Ferrysburg where he began a dairy business. Jack recalls that prior to WWII, there were seventeen dairies in the Tri-Cities area and competition was fierce. Several years later, the business was moved to Nunica and then to Spring Lake. After the dairy was sold in 1957, Jack worked for the Ottawa County Sheriff's Department for twenty-nine years. During the interview, Jack also describes the North Shore area in detail along with life in various Spring Lake factories
Personal Papers (MS 80-0002)
No full textLetter from Jack G. Springer to Clark W. Thompson discussing federal aid for the expansion and modernization of the Galveston Public Health Service Hospital
From the ‘freedom of the streets’: a biographical study of culture and social change in the life and work of writer Jack Common (1903-1968)
No full textThe author assesses the life and work of the Newcastle upon Tyne born writer Jack Common in the light of the massive social, economic and cultural changes which have affected the North East of England and wider society through the period of Common's life and afterwards. He seeks to point out the relevance of Common to the present day in terms of his ideas about class, community and the individual and in the light of Common's sense of rebelliousness influenced by a process of grass-roots education and self-improvement. In addition, he draws upon his own extensive experience in community arts and education, looking, in particular, at the work he and others have carried out on Common over the last thirty years and assessing its value in the light of recent political changes. The author draws together the range of biographical and literary criticism carried out by a range of individuals over this period of time and brings into print hitherto unpublished material about Common's life and work by interviewing family members and associates, exploring the Common Archive at Newcastle University and other largely ignored sources, and studying Common's significant association with George Orwell in great detail. Through all of this, he seeks to argue that Common's life and ideas remain worthy of close attention in the present day
Working class culture in a middle-class society
No full textJack Metzgar, a professor at Roosevelt University and author of "Bridging the divide: Working class culture in a middle-class society", delivers a Zoom presentation called "Working class culture in a middle-class society". Jack is introduced by John Beck and answers questions regarding his book and presentation
Lifting Jack.
No full textPatent for a strong, simple, and easily-operable lifting-jack meant for use in railroad car-axle boxes. It is a lifting bar with ratchet teeth, a lever that pivots against the lifting bar, a mechanism that holds and releases the bar, a pawl, and a double-arm spring connected to the pawl
Jack G. Shaheen 1935–2017
No full textPioneering author and media critic, Dr. Jack Shaheen devoted his life to identifying and contesting damaging stereotypes of Arabs and Muslims in American media and pop culture. Arabs and Muslims were offered up as cartoon caricatures—dagger wielding, evil, ridiculous, hypersexualized, inhumane and incompetent “others.” Dr. Shaheen quickly recognized their shared genealogy to the portrayals of other racialized groups including Jews, Native Americans, Asian Americans, Latinos, and African Americans. Always in the spirit of engaged dialogue, he was outspoken in defense of any group that was wrongfully stereotyped and vilified.</jats:p
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