Exhibit of the Rhode Island Tercentenary Stamp of 1936: The Roger Williams Stamp

Anne S. K. Brown Military Collection, John Hay Library (3rd Floor)
August 19 – October 19, 2010
Hours

The exhibit is a display of the genesis of The Roger Williams Stamp with examples in full sheets and various first-day covers. The

Every Friday the 13th, the Brown University Library celebrates Carberry Day.

From the Encyclopedia Brunoniana:
On Friday, May 13, 1955, an anonymous gift of $101.01 was received by the University from Professor Carberry to establish the Josiah S. Carberry Fund in memory of his “future late wife.” A condition of the gift was that, henceforth, every Friday the 13th would be designated “Carberry Day,” and on that day friends of the University would deposit their loose change in brown jugs to augment the fund, which is used to purchase “such books as Professor Carberry might or might not approve of.”

More information on Josiah Carberry

Mel B. Yoken Archives Exhibit
Gammell Exhibition Room
John Hay Library
20 Prospect Street, Providence, RI 02912

Friday, August 6, 2010 – Tuesday, September 7, 2010

Hours

Beginning Friday, August 6th, 2010, the Gammell Exhibition Room at the John Hay Library of Brown University in Providence, Rhode Island, will house a sampling of approximately 50 letters and several posters from the Mel B. Yoken Archives, featuring such prominent individuals as Lucille Ball, Ray Bradbury, Pearl S. Buck, George Burns, Julia Child, Bill Clinton, Walter Cronkite, Dave Garroway, John Glenn, Harper Lee, Norman Mailer, Robin Moore, Rosa Parks, Colin Powell, Dan Rather, Ronald Reagan, Norman Rockwell, Leopold Senghor, Maria Von Trapp, Lawrence Welk, Elie Wiesel and Thornton Wilder. Correspondence from these, as well as numerous other distinguished individuals, will be on display for public viewing.

For academic as well as personal reasons, Dr. Mel B. Yoken has been in correspondence with thousands of notable individuals from around the world over the past five decades, and has collected their letters to create an invaluable archive in the Mel B. Yoken Room on the third floor of the John Hay Library. This exhibition, which is located on the first floor of the library near the entrance, offers a small glimpse of the collection, which ultimately consists of more than 200,000 sheets of correspondence from notables worldwide.

These letters are of extremely significant historical value, as they are clearly one-of-a-kind, and offer insight into the minds of some of the world’s most influential people, present and past; therefore, this exhibit is something one should not miss.

The exhibit will be open to the public from Friday, August 6th through Tuesday, September 7th.