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Mythical Creatures
Throughout her career, Pauline Baynes (1922–2008) was known for pictures of fantastic beasts, from dragons and mermaids to ghouls and goblins. For the Chapin Library’s contribution to Halloween Screamings, we present three original gouache paintings by Baynes for an unpublished series, Mythical Creatures: St. George and the dragon, Lewis Carroll’s Jabberwock, and the giant spider […]
July 4th Celebration
The annual public reading by actors from the Williamstown Theatre Festival of the Declaration of Independence of July 1776, the British reply to the Declaration of September 1776, King George III’s speech to Parliament of October 1776, and the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution will take place on Wednesday, July 4th, at 1:30 p.m. outside […]
Reflections on a Museum
As noted before on this site, items from the Chapin Library are frequently lent to the Williams College Museum of Art in support of exhibitions. This is the case also with the re-installation opened in April 2011, entitled Reflections on a Museum. WCMA staff have helpfully created a series of video tours of its component […]
A Christmas Carol
The literature of Christmas is vast, and well represented in the Chapin Library, from the Nativity related in early manuscripts and printed books to the image of Santa Claus in contemporary illustration. Among these works, A Christmas Carol, in Prose by Charles Dickens holds a place of special renown. It was the first of Dickens’ […]
Documents to Be Read July 4th
The annual public reading of the Declaration of Independence of July 1776, the British reply to the Declaration of September 1776, King George III’s speech to Parliament of October 1776, and the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution will take place on Monday, July 4th, at 1:30 p.m. outside the Williams College Museum of Art. Williamstown […]
The Good Gray Poet
The National Archives recently announced the discovery of nearly 3,000 documents written by Walt Whitman while an employee of the federal government. A resident of Washington, D.C. from 1863 to 1873, Whitman had already established himself as a poet, but to support himself and to help fund his work in aid of soldiers, he took […]
