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Betty Hester was a well known correspondent with author Flannery O'Connor. 🦚 At 25, Hester joined the US Air Force in 1948, but was "undesirably" discharged 5 years later because she was a lesbian. She committed suicide in 1998 at the age of 75.
📸: Sally Fitzgerald papers ✉️: Letters to Betty Hester
The World Cup kicks off today across North America! ⚽️ Get in the spirit by listening to Randy Gue's interview on Dr. Carl Suddler's "Footwork" podcast, win which they trace fifty years of Atlanta soccer history. Check it out here: buff.ly/oauS0xR
📸: Richard A. Cecil collection
Milena Williamson, a poet from Swarthmore, Pennsylvania, is a 2025 recipient of Rose Library's Poetry and Literature research travel award. Check out Williamson's blog post about her dive into the Ciaran Carson papers at Rose Library here: buff.ly/TnuK5h5
On extremely rare occasions, food somehow finds a way into our reading room. 🐟️ This week, a user came across a 50 year old unopened tin of salmon in the Robert and Miriam Lovett Robinson Crusoe collection! 😱 Do you think we should open it?
Ideally nothing would be missing, but we definitely don't want vault items to be 👻 What are your archives/rare books nightmares?
May is National Photography Month. 📸 To end the month on a high note, meet 10 photographers whose work is at Rose Library: buff.ly/IKnhJEN
📸: Ron Sherman photographs
Ying Zhou is an associate professor at China's Nanjing University whose research focuses on ecopoetics and Northern Irish poetry. She is a 2025 recipient of our lit & poetry short term fellowship. Check out her blog post about her research at Rose Library here: buff.ly/zV59M5n
We already miss our students! One of the classes that visited us this Spring was Dr. Meredith Schwieg's MUS 200, an introductory course in the music department. 🎵 Students were able to touch and read through rare book materials like "Chansonnier de Jean de Montchenu" & "Las cantigas de Santa María".
Who let the dogs (and cat and horse) into the library?! 🐾 What do y'all think - should we let the pets run Rose Library for a day?
