Luckily, 16 mm film, common from the 1920s through the 1960s, is relatively durable stuff. This particular reel of film, which sat in the Middlebury College archives for over forty years, depicts Robert Frost for two glorious, full color minutes. For the first time in nearly half a century (thanks to a film preservation lab in Philadelphia), […]…Continue Reading Vintage Robert Frost on film
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Civil War letters from the Middlebury College Archives featured on VPR.
Last week Jane Lindholm from Vermont Public Radio visited the Middlebury College Archives to find out more about a recent gift of Civil War letters. To listen to the story and see more images, visit the VPR web site here!
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Reading Rowland Out Loud
Recently, while digitizing some song recordings from the Helen Hartness Flanders Ballad Collection, we discovered an undocumented recording of a man reading from Rowland E. Robinson’s book Uncle Lisha’s Shop: Life in a Corner of Yankeeland. We recognized it as a Robinson story because of the characters mentioned, so we searched the online version of […]…Continue Reading Reading Rowland Out Loud
Special Collections Closed for Spring Break
Just a reminder that Special Collections will be closed this week from today, Monday, March 28, through next Sunday evening, April 3, 2011. We will reopen for regular hours next Monday, April 4, from 1-5 p.m., and 7-10 p.m….Continue Reading Special Collections Closed for Spring Break