Sweet Briar College Library Gazette Vol. XLIV 2011 Apple & Cider Tasting

Need captions here n a bright beautiful October day, the Friends of Library hosted Tom Burford and Charlotte Shelton at the annual fall meeting. Members of Friends of Library, students, faculty and members of the Ocommunity gathered in the east end of the Kitty Corbett Powell ’38 Reading Room for the program. A table of fine ciders and fresh apples were arranged for the participants to see. Tom Burford aka Professor Apple is from Amherst County and is an orchard and nursery consultant, specializing in the restoration, re-creation, and design of historic sites and private estates, as well as commercial and backyard orchards. He lectures and conducts seminars and workshops nationwide. He consults in Virginia with historic properties including Monticello, Mount Vernon and Colonial Williamsburg. He has designed orchards locally at the City Cemetery and Point of Honor. One work in progress is an orchard for the White House as part of the Need caption Obama’s victory garden. He is the author of Apples: A Catalog of International Varieties, co-author of Fruit Grafters Handbook with Ed Fackler, and contributor of fruits content to The Northeastern Garden Book, published by tasted in between the tastings. The at the Library – April 4, 2011 Sunset Books. In 1997, he discontinued ciders were: Juptier Legacy’s named the nursery operation of his company, after Thomas Jefferson’s most trusted Burford Brothers at Monroe, Virginia, servant. It is a fruity blend of classic to devote full time to consulting. Tom American cider apples—Harrison, Yates, Edible Book Contest Burford was also a furniture maker, and Hyslop and Virginia Crab. This dry many pieces in the Florence Elston Inn cider is fresh, clean, bright and lively on The library held its first Edible Book at Sweet Briar College are his creations. the tongue. The second, Old Virginia Contest last spring during the American Charlotte Shelton founded Vintage Winesap, is spicy, floral, and fruity, Libraries Week. Over 20 entries filled Virginia Apples, LLC, in North Garden, slightly tart with a lingering finish. The two rows of tables in the Powell Virginia, with her family in 2000. In third, Royal Pippin is a fruity cider Reading Room. Edible Book Festival her “spare time,” she is an investment crafted entirely from Albemarle Pippins. is an annual event usually held on or professional with a national brokerage It is a dry cider that has a champagne- around April 1, which is also known as firm. Tom Burford was a consultant to like quality. And the last, Ragged Edible Book Day. The global event has their enterprise. Charlotte Shelton said Mountain, is a cider blend of classic been celebrated since 2000 in various the company was hoping to tap into apple varieties—Albemarle Pippin, parts of the world, where “edible Central Virginia’s growing agri-tourism Winesap, Black Twig, Grimes Golden books” are created, displayed, and small 3rd Place market. With dozens of wineries in and Stayman—historically grown on events are held. The library is looking Deb Sigman “Good Looking Cooking” for the region, it seemed only natural that and around the Ragged Mountains. forward to the next Edible Book Where the Sidewalk Ends thirsty tourists and food lovers would This is a semi-dry cider crafted to please Contest in April of 2012. 2nd Place want to check out the complex flavors a wide range of palates. The apples Caitlin Cashin “A Head of the Rest” for of high-end cider. “The average wine tasted were Arkansas Black, Russet, Salome drinker will find our cider appealing and Winesap and Albemarle Pippin. interesting,” she said. Tom and Charlotte talked at length The orchard’s emphasis on the about the reduction in the number of history of apples and cider in Virginia apples available to consumers today. may also attract visitors seeking to learn Although Central Virginia has a rich more about Jefferson-era libations, she history as an apple-growing area, it’s said. It’s an industry that, sometime sometimes hard to find apples in more ago, dominated the eastern slope of the than a handful of varieties, even at the 4th Place Blue Ridge, she said. They sell some farmers’ market. At one time, there Julie Kane “Most Pun-derful” for Bleak apples, but they also make money in were more than 14,000 varieties of House other ways, she said. “We have about apples growing in the United States, 250 varieties of apples, and that’s not a and hundreds of varieties growing in very sensible way to grow an orchard,” orchards in this area. Tom remembers Shelton said. But there is one thing 31 orchards of varying size in the that a huge variety of apples are good Elon and Amherst areas. Now there for: a nice cider, she said. The farm are fewer than five. Slowly, as small markets the cider through Albemarle family-owned markets were replaced CiderWorks, which sells with chain grocery stores, the need for hard cider and sweet regional sources of fruit diminished, cider in season. “We and smaller orchards were replaced with 5th Place can use this polyglot other crops, or left to grow wild. Now, Robyn Sanderson “Most Creepy” for The collection of apples to there are entire generations that have Very Hungry Caterpillar good effect,” she said. grown up knowing nothing but the The Shelton family dull taste of the few varieties available in also runs a nursery, supermarkets. selling the hard-to-find When asked what his favorite apple 6th Place Angela Concetta-Meikie “Best Student trees. Most people was, Burford replied,“My favorite apple Entry” for The Prince and the Pauper buy between four was the last apple I ate.” The growing and 12 trees, which interest in heritage apples and cider is “manageable for an making caused him to add, “It’s an enthusiast,” she said. exciting time for me. I never thought, The Friends were 10 years ago, that we would have come treated to four ciders this far. from CiderWorks and a variety of apples were 1st Place Sheila Alexander “People’s Choice/Fan Favorite” for If That Breathes Fire, We’re Toast

2 3 Who was Barbara Johns? Barbara Johns Portrait Unveiled Civil Rights Activist, School Desegregation at the Mary Helen Cochran Library 1935–1991 “It was time that Negroes and imagination she began to formulate a at Robert Russa Moton High School. plan. As Barbara described it, Her idealism, planning, and persistence weet Briar College, working in were treated equally with conjunction with the national ultimately garnered the support of “Americans Who Tell the Truth” whites, time that they had “the plan I felt was divinely NAACP lawyers Spotswood Robinson and project, provided the location a decent school, time for the inspired because I hadn’t Oliver Hill to take up her cause and the forS this event. This organization is cause of more equitable conditions for comprised of a non-partisan series of students themselves to do been able to think of anything portraits by Brooksville (Maine) artist until then. The plan was to Moton High School. After meeting with something about it. the students and the community, lawyers Rob Shetterly. His portraits of past and assemble together the student current Americans form a traveling There wasn’t any fear. I Robinson and Hill filed suit at the federal exhibit that is hosted by schools, council members…From this, courthouse in Richmond, Virginia. The universities, churches, and various just thought —this is your case was called Davis v. Prince Edward. In community groups around the country. we would formulate plans moment. Seize it!” 1954, the Farmville case became one of Seizing the moment, on April 23, to go on strike. We would 1951, Barbara Johns, a 16-year old high Barbara Rose Johns was born in five cases that the U.S. Supreme Court school girl led her classmates in a strike New York City in 1935 to Violet and make signs and I would reviewed in Brown v. Board of Education to protest the substandard conditions Robert Johns. She moved to Farmville in give a speech stating our of Topeka when it declared school at Robert Russa Moton High School. Prince Edward County, Virginia, during segregation unconstitutional. Sometimes Her idealism, planning, and persistence dissatisfaction and we would World War II to live on a farm with her a courageous act by one person can set ultimately garnered the support of march out [of] the school in motion a series of events that bring NAACP lawyers Spotswood Robinson maternal grandmother Mary Croner. and Oliver Hill to take up her cause and She spent most of her youth living and and people would hear us justice to an entire nation. the cause of more equitable conditions Robert Shetterly working on her grandmother’s, and later and see us and understand Following the strike, her family, concerned for Moton High School. After meeting her father’s, farm. for Barbara’s safety following threats by with the students and the community, Robert Shetterly was born in 1946 in our difficulty and would local racist groups, sent Barbara to live lawyers Robinson and Hill filed suit at Cincinnati, Ohio. He graduated in 1969 After years of frustration with the sympathize with our plight the federal courthouse in Richmond, from Harvard College with a degree in segregated Prince Edward County in Montgomery, Alabama, to finish her Virginia. The case was called Davis v. English Literature. At Harvard he took schools which she described as having and would grant us our schooling. After graduating from high Prince Edward. a couple of courses in drawing which inadequacies such as poor facilities, shabby new school building and our school, she attended Spellman College in In 1954, the Farmville case became changed the direction of his creative equipment and no science laboratories Atlanta, Georgia, and ultimately graduated one of five cases that the U.S. Supreme life—from the written word to the image. teachers would be proud and or separate gymnasium, Barbara took her from Drexel University in Philadelphia, Court reviewed in Brown v. Board of Also, during this time, he was very active the students would learn more Pennsylvania. Barbara Johns went on to Education of Topeka when it declared in Civil Rights and in the Anti-Vietnam War concerns to a teacher who responded by school segregation unconstitutional. movement. asking her to “… do something about it.” and it would be grand…” lead a quiet life; she married Reverend William Powell, raised five children and Sometimes a courageous act by one After college and moving to Maine in 1970, Barbara described feeling as though her Seizing the moment, on April 23, 1951, person can set in motion a series of he taught himself drawing, printmaking, and teacher’s comments were dismissive, and Barbara Johns, a 16 year-old high school was a librarian in the Philadelphia Public events that bring justice to an entire painting. Now, his paintings & prints are in as a result she was somewhat discouraged. girl led her classmates in a strike to Schools. Barbara Johns Powell died in nation.” collections all over the U.S. and Europe. However, after months of contemplation protest the substandard conditions 1991. A collection of his drawings & etchings, Barbara Johns (1935-1991) was a civil rights activist for her school desegregation. Speakers, left to right: Robert Shutterly, Jo Ellen Parker, Fazila Noorzad ’11, Shannon Valentine, and Viola Baskerville Speakers at this event were Jo Speaking Fire at Stones, was published in Ellen Parker, President of Sweet Briar 1993. He is well know for his series of 70 College, Viola Baskerville, Secretary painted etchings based on William Blake’s of Administration, Commonwealth Proverbs of Hell, and for another series of Virginia, Robert Shutterly, Portrait of 50 painted etchings reflecting on the Artist, Shannon Valentine, Delegate, metaphor of the Annunciation. His painting Virginia House of Delegates and Fazila tends toward the narrative and the surreal, Noorzad ’11, an international student and he has not been, until this time, a from Afghanistan. Ms. Noorzad spoke portrait painter. on her experiences as a young woman Robert Shetterly lives with his partner Gail growing up in Afghanistan. Page, also a painter, in Brooksville, Maine.

4 5 retirements Shirley P. Reid Joyce Kramar

met with Shirley P. Reid at hand or typewriter with stencil paper were more reserved oyce Kramar What a Blessing Cafe in the for copies. Over time, Shirley took on (dignified) and long time Sweet Ambriar Shopping Center. It did more and more duties until she became dressed up even when Briar College not surprise me that she knew the circulation supervisor, a position she coming to the library. library secretary everyoneI there. She even told the cute held for the rest of her time at Sweet In our andJ acquisitions young girl at the check-out that she was Briar College. Shirely worked under conversation she supervisor retired in her aunt. librarians Gemmell, Henry James and commented “when the fall of 2010. A Shirley Pendleton started working finally John G. Jaffe. She especially the economy got bad, splendid party was at Sweet Briar College when she was remembers working with Chris Bean people at Sweet Briar held for Joyce and in high school. Her first job was to be who went on to be the librarian at went crazy.” I think many colleagues, a messenger for the college men who Shenandoah University. I know what she past and present, came to Sweet Briar College to meet a The library automated its collection means! came to wish her date. Shirley would be told that he was with computers during the time Chris She raised two well. Her children here for so & so and she would go to Bean was here and Shirley said they daughters while Brenda and David the student’s dorm room to tell her that thought they would never get it right. at Sweet Briar. Shirley Reid Joyce Kramar also came. Joyce had her date was here. There was no other As she reflects, she thinks that was one Valerie, her oldest been at Sweet Briar way to notify the students and men of the most memorable changes in the went to St. Paul’s College and Ohio College for 25 years! Joyce is retiring were never allowed in the dorms! library. State University for her master’s to Pinehurst NC where she will be in She was hired by librarian Tyler As circulation supervisor, Shirley degree. Yolanda attended Sweet Briar the same neighborhood with longtime Gemmell in 19??. Her first duties hired and became friends with many College and worked for a brief time friends from her days as a Navy pilot wife. were housekeeping but Ms. Gemmell Sweet Briar College girls over her at Randolph-Macon College before In her years, the collections has grown constantly trained Shirley in the tenure. She said that the girls today landing a job with Microsoft. She has from 185,000 to over 300,000 volumes, workings of the library. At that time, are much more relaxed and laid back three grandchildren; Ricky, Angie and most of which she has personally ordered. everything was done in the library by whereas in the olden days, students Terrance. From the Friends of Library Needs Her fondest memory is of all the Committee acquisitions alone, she has wonderful people she has met and has expended over a quarter of a million worked with at Sweet Briar College. In dollars to improve the learning resources the 1990s students wanted to recognize available to students, faculty and other an employee for their Excellence in scholars using the library. The collection Service. The first recipient of this was value in 1985 (excluding the rare books Shirley and it was named that in her collection) was $7 million. Today it honor: The Shirley P. Reid Excellence is over $19 million. The rare books in Service Award. She received the collection value has increased fivefold. Sweet Briar College Centennial Award Circulation of the book collection was and was on the welcoming stage for 21,000 in 1985 and 18,500 last year President Jo Ellen Parker. (with fewer students) so all those books Mrs. Reid, as countless Sweet Briar she ordered are getting read! College students warmly know her, will Many students loved Joyce and they be greatly missed at the Mary Helen would drop by to visit her and her Cochran Library. But she is close by in miniature poodle Sophie. Sophie was Amherst and ever present in spirit along especially a big hit during orientation for the stacks and rooms of the library. the first year students.

6 7 2010 Nicole Basbanes ’04 Book Collecting Contest When it started, I wasn’t After a few months of Romanesque Folda, I learned that he wrote the most Art and Architecture, I discovered extensive volumes of crusader art and consciously building a Jaroslav Folda’s work on the art of he was the go-to crusader scholar. He collection; I was simply the Crusades. I know this may sound has published two massive volumes on Seeing the Middle Ages ridiculous, but it changed my life. It crusader art that are now out of print feeding my appetite was the first time I paid attention to and he lives just fifteen minutes from First Place Winner: Holly Ledbetter by selecting the most who the author was, his/her writing my house. How bizarre! Besides the fact style, who the publisher was and so that you all now think I am a stalker, I interesting texts I could on. Actually, I loved Folda from the would like to point out that a real shift get my hands on. start because I punned on his last occurred here in my collection. From name during the drive to the Walters that moment on, when I picked up a rom survey texts that examine interested in seeing a variety of images, Art Museum. When someone in the potential book to add to my collection, the art of Western Europe locate a survey text. I recommend the van asked me to hand them a folder I if I wasn’t familiar with the author, I to exhibition catalogues Oxford History of Art series because of replied, “Oh, you need a Folda? Me looked him/her up. I became obsessed that dissect the glories of its wide-ranging selection of medieval too!” A truly silly story with an equally with possessing the most cutting edge, Byzantium,F this collection of books is art topics (plus OHA provides the best silly pun, but I was convinced Folda scholarly, and respectable editions a product of my deep love of medieval images!). was the guy for me! After researching in existence. That may sound a bit art. About a year ago I took my first Art History course, Romanesque Art and Architecture, and from then on I was addicted. When it started, I wasn’t consciously building a collection; I was Bibliography 2010. Print University Press, 1994. Print. Bibliography De Hamel, C. A History of Illuminated Manuscripts. Lowney, Chris. A Vanished World: Muslims, simply feeding my appetite by selecting London: Phaidon Press, 1994. Print. Christians, and Jews in Medieval Spain. New Adams, Laurie. The Methodologies of Art: An the most interesting texts I could get York: Oxford University Press, 2006. Print. Introduction. New York, NY: IconEditions, 1996. Dodds, Jerrilyn. The Art of Medieval Spain, A.D. my hands on. Over a year has passed Print. 500-1200. New York: Metropolitan Museum of Lynch, Joseph H. The Medieval Church: A Brief Art, 1993. Print. History. London: Longman, 1992. Print. and my collection has grown, more like Ashley, Kathleen M, and Marilyn Deegan. Being a developed, honestly. I don’t purchase Pilgrim: Art and Ritual on the Medieval Routes Elsner, Jas. Imperial Rome and Christian Triumph: McEnroe, John C, and Deborah F. Pokinski. Critical survey texts anymore. I’ve moved on to to Santiago. Farnham: Lund Humphries, 2009. The Art of the Roman Empire Ad 100-450. Perspectives on Art History. Upper Saddle River, Print. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1998. Print. NJ: Prentice Hall, 2002. Print. the most scholarly and respected texts in Backman, Clifford R. The Worlds of Medieval Europe. Ettinghausen, Richard, Oleg Grabar, and Marilyn Nees, Lawrence. Early Medieval Art. Oxford: Oxford the field of art history. It’s amazing how New York: Oxford University Press, 2009. Print. Jenkins. Islamic Art and Architecture 650-1250. University Press, 2002. Print. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2001. much a book collection can tell you Bagnoli, Martina. Treasures of Heaven: Saints, Relics, Preziosi, Donald. The Art of Art History: A Critical Print. about someone. This collection, I hope, and Devotion in Medieval Europe. Cleveland, Anthology. Oxford: Oxford University Press, Ohio: Cleveland Museum of Art, 2010. Print. Evans, Helen C. Byzantium: Faith and Power (1261- 2009. Print. will give you all a bit of insight into who 1557). New York: Metropolitan Museum of Art, Bennett, Judith M. Medieval Europe: A Short History. Radding, Charles, and William W. Clark. Medieval I am, but most of all, it will show you 2004. Print. New York: McGraw-Hill, 2011. Print. Architecture, Medieval how I have grown as a scholar in the Evans, Helen C, and William D. Wixom. The Glory Bovey, Alixe. Monsters and Grotesques in Medieval Learning: Builders and Masters in the Age of of Byzantium: Art and Culture of the Middle past year. Manuscripts. Toronto: University of Toronto Romanesque and Gothic. Byzantine Era, A.D. 843-1261. New York: Press, 2002. Print. The first volumes of the collection Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1997. Print. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1992. Print. Brown, Peter. The Cult of the Saints: Its Rise and were simple survey texts like Roger Fischer, B, Robertus Weber, and Roger Gryson. Rosenwein, Barbara H. A Short History of the Middle Function in Latin Christianity. Chicago: Stalley’s Early Medieval Architecture Biblia Sacra Iuxta Vulgatam Versionem. Stuttgart: Ages. Toronto, Ont: University of Toronto Press, University of Chicago Press, 1981. Print. and Richard Krautheimer’s Early Deutsche Bibelgesellschaft, 2007. Print. 2009. Print. Bynum, Caroline W. Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Folda, Jaroslav. Crusader Art: The Art of the Rosenwein, Barbara H. Reading the Middle Ages: Christian and Byzantine Architecture. Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women. Crusaders in the Holy Land, 1099-1291. Sources from Europe, Byzantium, and the Islamic Berkeley: University of California Press, 1987. I was specifically interested in these Aldershot: Lund Humphries, 2008. Print. World. Peterborough, Ontario: Broadview Press, texts for several reasons. The breadth of Print. Calkins, Robert G. Medieval Architecture 2006. Print. in Western Europe: From A.D. 300 to 1500. New Friedman, John B. The Monstrous Races in Medieval Shaver-Crandell, Annie, Paula L. Gerson, and Alison knowledge contained in each volume York: Oxford University Press, 1998. Print. Art and Thought. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1981. Print. Stones. The Pilgrim’s Guide to Santiago De was astounding. These books also were Camille, Michael. Image on the Edge: The Margins Compostela: A Gazetteer. London: Harvey Miller usually affordable, mostly because of Medieval Art. Cambridge, Mass: Harvard Gregory, Timothy E. A History of Byzantium. Publishers, 1995. Print. University Press, 1992. Print. Malden, MA: Blackwell Pub, 2005. Print. they were prescribed for the general Spier, Jeffrey. Picturing the Bible: The Earliest public. Most of all I chose these texts Carruthers, Mary J. The Book of Memory: A Study of Herlihy, David. Medieval Culture and Society. Christian Art. New Haven: Yale University Press, Memory in Medieval Culture. Cambridge, UK: Prospect Heights, Ill: Waveland Press, 1993. 2007. Print. because they were clearly aiming to Cambridge University Press, 2008. Print. Print. Stalley, R A. Early Medieval Architecture. Oxford: teach. With loads of vocabulary in Clemens, Raymond, and Timothy Graham. Herrin, Judith. Women in Purple: Rulers of Medieval Oxford University Press,1999. Print. Introduction to Manuscript Studies. Ithaca: Byzantium. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University every chapter, I was being given the Stones, Alison, Jeanne Krochalis, Paula L. Gerson, Cornell University Press, 2007. Print. Press, 2004. Print. tools to converse in the world of art and Annie Shaver-Crandell. Conant, Kenneth J. Carolingian and Romanesque Houben, Hubert. Roger II of Sicily: A Ruler between history. The absolute best thing about The Pilgrim’s Guide: A Critical Edition. London: Architecture, 800 to 1200. New Haven: Yale East and West. Cambridge, UK: Cambridge Harvey Miller Publications, 1998. Print. survey texts is the images. It’s difficult University Press, 1992. Print. University Press, 2002. Print. Vikan, Gary, and Gary Vikan. Early Byzantine to explain the sensation of opening Cormack, Robin. Byzantine Art. Oxford: Oxford Kessler, Herbert L, and Johanna Zacharias. Rome Pilgrimage Art. Washington, D.C: Dumbarton to page 18 of Stalley’s text to the full University Press, 2000. Print. 1300: On the Path of the Pilgrim. New Haven, Conn: Yale University Press, 2000. Print. Oaks Research Library and Collection, 2010. page Santa Sabina basilica. It’s simply Curcic, Slobodan, Euangelia Chatzetryphonos, Print. Kathleen E. McVey, and Hélène Saradi. Krautheimer, Richard. Early Christian and Byzantine gut wrenching that something of Webb, Diana. Pilgrims and Pilgrimage in the Architecture As Icon: Perception and Architecture. New Haven: Yale University Press, Medieval West. London: I.B. Tauris, 2001. Print. Santa Sabina’s magnitude was humanly Representation of Architecture in Byzantine Art. 1992. Print. possible. Bottom line: if you are Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Art Museum, Lasko, Peter. Ars Sacra, 800-1200. New Haven: Yale

8 9 2010 Nicole Basbanes ’04 Book Collecting Contest Maybe it was Byzantium’s ever present use of gold, perhaps it was the Cattle-Drives, Kings, and Gypsy Caravans: manifestation of the “other” in Byzantine art, or it might have been the squiggly letters that drew me near. Whatever it was it clearly made a huge impact on my collection. Spanning the Ages With Louis L’Amour Second Place Winner: Virginia Butner dramatic, but the truth is, these authors, can’t live without, such as that Art of Overall, I collect these books ou could call us book rescuers. each and every one, became some sort Medieval Spain text. Right now, my because I love what’s inside of them. My parents were those odd of idol to me. With some authors it interests are geared toward Pilgrimage One day, my computer might not turn folks who would fish discarded was their writing style that caught my and Byzantine Art, and my collection on, I might not be able to use Google books out of the dumpsters attention, while other authors struck me most definitely reflects that. It just so images, or SBC’s WiFi might go on Ybehind libraries; the idea that anyone with their research methods. The most happened that Pilgrimage was a hot Spring Break a bit early and that means would intentionally throw away a satisfying truth of this whole anecdote is topic in 1990, when I was born… no more ArtStor. However, with the book was both shocking and tragic. that these authors, these people I look which means most of the texts I’m texts I’ve compiled, I’ll always have I remember the first time I went on up to so much, are simply just people: looking for are out of print. Now, that something within my reach to look at. a literary dumpster dive. The smell It just took Jaroslav Folda to show me could be a set back, but check out my It’s astounding the similarities I can of musty books wafted up from the that. annotations and I think you will get a draw with my collection and medieval dumpster, and I knew I was hooked. After Folda, I began to have a clear sense of what I’ll go through for pilgrimage. The medieval pilgrim is Book collecting would become an very odd gravitational pull towards a book. Honestly, one of the best parts concerned with tangibility, this demand addiction. You could say that collecting Byzantium. Maybe it was Byzantium’s about building a collection like this is on his or her part to see or touch the books is in my blood. ever present use of gold, perhaps it the fact that scholars are still writing relic. Well, my relics are my books. I Initially, I satiated this addiction by was the manifestation of the “other” and potential additions to the collection don’t fold my hands in supplication, collecting mass quantities of Curious in Byzantine art, or it might have been are being published on a regular but I do stare awestruck into their George books from the Ashe County the squiggly letters that drew me near. basis. So basically, this collection will pages, which in turn allows me to see Library. But the library wanted me to Whatever it was it clearly made a huge never die: it’s immortal. As art history the Middle Ages. This collection is also bring them back, and as I grew older impact on my collection. I’d estimate changes, or medieval studies changes, a major product of my time at Sweet my interests matured. Around the age over half my books deal with the rich people will still publish, scholars will Briar. Had I not met Tracy Hamilton, of about fourteen, on a very boring holdings of Byzantium. Now I know still have something to say that will fill I wouldn’t own a single one of these home-school day, I remember going they say, curiosity killed the cat, but I my personal library. Another awesome texts. This is how someone’s collection to the bookshelves that lined the walls say, curiosity killed the bank account. part about collecting is the feeling I can tell you a lot about a person. From of our back room, and noticing for I am full of secrets, so I might as well get when I find that crisp clean copy of my collection I think it’s clear who the first time the cover of a particular just share another one with you. Books Art of Medieval Spain for forty bucks has influenced me academically and book. The art was dim and lacked in on Byzantine anything—whether it’s on Amazon marketplace. Talk about personally. The personal shifts of my substance, but there, staring back at culture, art, history, literature, anything rewarding! There’s nothing like getting college career can be identified by the me was a rugged face, with a hat brim at all—are expensive. I honestly believe that yellow slip from SBC’s post office trajectory of my book collection. pulled down, and silver-grey eyes that it’s because it costs an arm and a and welcoming the new little orphan As I said before, I don’t think there pierced my young soul. I simply had leg to get the authors to the Middle book to your happy family of medieval is a way to predict where my collection to know the story behind those eyes. East to do their research, or maybe art texts. is going, except to say that it is going, The novel was Louis L’Amour’s Son of because Byzantinists seem to take lots that it will never end. Tomorrow I a Wanted Man, and as I became friends of pictures, which in turn costs money may discover that I can’t live without The medieval pilgrim with the characters of Mike Bastian and when it’s time for publication. Whatever is concerned with Norman architecture, but today I am it is, the books are expensive, but I can’t glued to Pilgrimage and the glories of Initially, I satiated this help myself. What attracts me most tangibility, this demand Byzantium. The truth is, it’s not really addiction by collecting about Byzantine art is the constant on his or her part to see me who shapes this collection. It may reminder from all of Western Europe be my money and my time, but it is mass quantities of that Byzantium is the “other” nation, or touch the relic. Well, in fact the art that shapes me. How Curious George books when if you really get down to it, it all my relics are my books. I identify with a particular piece or started in Byzantium. I hate to tell you architectural space moves me to my from the Ashe County folks, but the East is the Bible belt when I don’t fold my hands purchases. I can’t tell you what my next Library. But the library it comes to Christianity, so pack your in supplication, but I purchase will be, though the out of pilgrimage bag and I’ll meet you there! print Early Medieval Art in Spain looks wanted me to bring them With every new volume my do stare awestruck into pretty good from where I’m sitting. back. . . collection becomes more concentrated their pages, which in What I can tell you is that my curiosity and directed to the field of study I will never cease and this collection of am most interested in at the time. turn allows me to see the books will never stop growing. Sometimes, of course, I find something Middle Ages. that my collection, or I rather, just 10 11 Drusilla Ragan, I fell in love with the to going place and back again, and can 2010 Nicole Basbanes ’04 Book Collecting Contest wild, wild west and L’Amour’s passion be read at a moderate pace. The Walking for storytelling. Drum, a novel set in the sixteen As time went by and I became hundreds, could be my companion on older, Louis’ novels were my constant a longer trip, whereas any Sackett novel Books about Theater companions, and an exciting way for It was from his novels will do for a shorter one. me to escape the mundanity of east that I, to a great degree, Time and again I have searched Third Place Winner: Molly Harper coast life. They gave me a chance to through bargain bins, yard sale tables, live for a little while in a time of rough shaped my ideas of the and flea market tubs to rescue a forlorn cowboys and dirt floor saloons. The world around me—for and forgotten relic of the American hen I was very little, I was a horrible student most interesting thing about his stories West. No matter how beat up the cover, that did not like to read. I went to school and Partial BIBLIOGRAPHY is that many of them are based on real the better or worse; how I know that the inside of the books is refused to read up until second grade when Cassady, Marsh. An Introduction To--the Art of Theatre: a Comprehensive Text--past, people or historical figures, and they women should act, how what matters most. I hope one day to my teacher, Mrs. Burns, forced me to read Present, and Future. Colorado Springs, CO: Meriwether Pub., 2007. Print. are historically and geographically collect not only the paperback versions, Wand found out that I had bad eyesight. I got my first pair Gillete, J. Michael. Theatrical Design and Production: An Introduction to Scene Design and Construction, Lighting, Sound, Costume, and Makeup. 6th ed. Print. accurate. He talks often of Jackson strong men conquer the but a complete hardback set of every of glasses and suddenly, books became more interesting. Harbison, Lawrence. 2007: the Best 10-minute Plays for Three or More Actors. Hanover, Hole, Wyoming, the foothills of the world, and even how to novel or story that Louis L’Amour They helped my imagination and books gave me a way of NH: Smith and Kraus, 2008. Print. Appalachia, or the painted desert of wrote. When I have read them all and having fun in school. Soon enough I could read one or two Brockett, Oscar Gross, and Franklin J. Hildy. History of the Theatre. Boston: Pearson, New Mexico. His Sackett series spans observe things in nature. collected them all I will start over, books in a day and in sixth grade, I read over twenty-two 2008. Print. the generations, beginning in the read them again, and continue to dig thousand pages in one school year. I decided that if books Novak, Elaine Adams., and Deborah Novak. Staging Musical Theatre: a Complete Guide English moors during the seventeen through the bargain bins. I hope to pass could do so much for me, they could help out others, and for Directors, Choreographers and Producers. Betterway Pu., 1996. Print. hundreds, following the discovery and the love of books on to my children, since then I have dedicated half of my money to purchasing Shakespeare, William, and George Lyman Kittredge. The Kittredge-players Edition of the Complete Works of William Shakespeare. New York: Grolier, 1958. Print. hardship of the new Americas, and and preserve the written history and theater books to create a library for my future classroom. Bloom, Michael. Thinking like a Director: a Practical Handbook. New York: Faber and ending in the late eighteen hundreds characters are figures of the past, many tradition of my country. I decided to become Faber, 2001. Print. during and after the American Civil a man have I matched against a Sackett As the dusk falls on a chilly March I decided that if a drama teacher very late Cerf, Bennett, and Van H. Cartmell. 24 Favorite One-act Plays. Garden City, NY: War. His characters are all unique, but man, and many a time have I wondered evening, my small, ordinary, slightly in my high school career, Doubleday, 1958. Print. share a drive for adventure and a will to how a L’Amour woman would act in awkward living room again resigns books could do so about one month before Gainor, J. Ellen, Stanton B. Garner, and Martin Puchner. The Norton Anthology of live. my harder life situations. itself to being the coldest room in the much for me, they my college decision had Drama. New York: W. W. Norton &, 2009. Print. It was from his novels that I, to a I have had many wonderful house; a resignation which comes only to be made. I was heavily Henry, Joyce E., ed. One on One: The Best Women’s Monologues for the 21st Century. 2007. Print. great degree, shaped my ideas of the opportunities to travel, and L’Amour because it has a greater triumph over involved in theater since could help out others, Thomas, Dylan, and Richard Burton. Under Milkwood. London: British Broadcasting world around me—for the better or novels have been my constant all the other rooms in the house, the and since then I my first year in high Corporation, 2001. Print. worse; how women should act, how companions. Every time I have taken possession of precisely, and haphazardly school, but it was my Reinert, Otto. Drama; an Introductory Anthology. Boston: Little, Brown, 1964. Print. strong men conquer the world, and a significant trip, after the tickets are collected books. From behind the have dedicated mother who told me if I Pospisil, Craig. Outstanding Women’s Monologues 2001-2002. New York: Dramatists even how to observe things in nature. bought and the bags packed, it is very wrinkled glass of a solid wood case, four half of my money to wanted to pursue theater, Play Service, 2002. Print. Most of the men in his novels were able important for me to make a visit to rows of unique books sit languidly in teaching was the best way Wedekind, Frank, and Jonathan Franzen. Spring Awakening: a Children’s Tragedy. New to smell a fire from five miles away, or the local bookstore to pick up another the fading light, but one shelf is more purchasing theater to go about it and I knew York: Faber and Faber, 2007. Print. track a man by a broken twig here and L’Amour novel: the size of the novel I uniform that the others. This one knows then theater education Sheik, Duncan, Steven Sater, and Frank Wedekind. Spring Awakening. New York: books to create a Theatre Communications Group, 2007. Print. there; they could fight wild animals, choose is directly related to the length why it is here. Each book is a cherished was exactly what I Durang, Christopher, and Christopher Durang. Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All for wrangle half-broke horses, and charm of the trip. The idea is to have a book story that will remain in my collection library for my wanted to do. When my You ; And, The Actor’s Nightmare: Two Plays. New York, N.Y. (440 Park Ave. South, women without trying. Though his that lasts sufficiently from starting place for years to come. future classroom. first semester at Sweet New York 10016): Dramatists Play Service, 1982. Print. Briar started, I bought O’Neill, Rosary Hartel. Degas in New Orleans. Samuel French, 2008. Print. every theater textbook Bryson, Karen Mueller. Plays for a New Generation. [Saint Augustine, FL]: Global in the bookstore and Authors Publications, 2003. Print. BIBLIOGRAPHY Bantam Books, 2007 L’Amour, Louis. The Skyliners. New York, NY: have collected as many Shakespeare, William, and John Wilders. Antony and Cleopatra. London: Routledge, 1995. Print. L’Amour, Louis. Bendigo Shafter. New York, NY: L’Amour, Louis. Mustang Man. New Bantam Bantam Books, 1971 informational theater Wolfe, George C. The Colored Museum: a Play. Grove, 1985. Print. Bantam Books, 1979. Edition. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1971 L’Amour, Louis. Son of a Wanted Man. New York, books as I could possibly NY: Bantam Books, 1984 Cohen, Lorraine. Monologues for Young Actors. New York: Avon, 1994. Print. L’Amour, Louis. The Daybreakers. New York, NY: L’Amour, Louis. Passin’ Through. New York, NY: find. These books will Bantam Books, 1960. Bantam Books, 1985 L’Amour, Louis. To the Far Blue Mountains. New Ionesco, Eugene. The Bald Soprano, and Other Plays. New York: Grove, 1982. Print. create the library in my L’Amour, Louis. Flint. New York, NY: Bantam L’Amour, Louis. The Quick and The Dead. New York, York, NY: Bantam Books, 1975. Seymour, Miranda. Medea. New York, NY: St. Martin’s, 1982. Print. future classroom. Now I Books, 1960. NY: Bantam Books, 1979 L’Amour, Louis. The Trail to Seven Pines. Book Beckett, Samuel. Waiting for Godot; Tragicomedy in 2 Acts,. New York: Grove, 1954. L’Amour, Louis. The Haunted Mesa. New York, NY: L’Amour, Louis. Ride the Dark Trail. New York, NY: Club Edition. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1992. can say that I have forty- Print. Hardback. Bantam Books, 1987 Bantam Books, 1972 five books about theater Wilson, Edwin. The Theater Experience. Boston: McGraw-Hill, 2007. Print. L’Amour, Louis. Valley of the Sun. New York, NY: L’Amour, Louis. The High-Graders. New York, NY: L’Amour, Louis. Rustlers of West Fork. New York, and I know that when I Stoppard, Tom. Rock ‘n’ Roll. New York: Grove, 2007. Print. Bantam Books, 1975. NY: Bantam Books, 1992. Bantam Books, 1995 L’Amour, Louis. The Warrior’s Path. New York, NY: become a teacher, it will Ives, David. Time Flies and Other Short Plays. New York: Grove, 2001. Print. L’Amour, Louis. Jubal Sackett. New York, NY: L’Amour, Louis. Sackett. New York, NY: Bantam benefit my students in Bantam Books, 1985. Hardcover Books, 1981. Hardcover Bantam Books, 1980 Ruhl, Sarah. The Clean House and Other Plays. New York: Theatre Communications their education. Group, 2006. Print. L’Amour, Louis. Lando. New York, NY: Bantam L’Amour, Louis. Sackett’s Land. New York, NY: L’Amour, Louis. West of Dodge. New York, NY: Books, 1962. Bantam Books, 1975. Bantam Books, 1997 Jerome, Helen Bruton, and Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice; a Sentimental Comedy in Three Acts,. Samuel French, 1935. Print. L’Amour, Louis. Last of the Breed. New York, NY: L’Amour, Louis. Silver Canyon. Mass Market L’Amour, Louis. With These Hands. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 1987. Paperback. Edition. New York, NY: Bantam Books, 2009 Bantam Books, 2003 Henley, Beth. Crimes of the Heart. New York, NY: Dramatists Play Service, 1982. Print. L’Amour, Louis. Last of the Breed. New York, NY: L’Amour, Louis. Sitka. New York, NY: New L’Amour, Louis. The Walking Drum. New York, NY: Thomas, Freyda, and Jan Silverman. 50 Fabulous New Classical Monologues for Women. Bantam Books, 1986. Hardback. American Library, 1997. Bantam Books, 1984. New York: Samuel French, 2008. Print. L’Amour, Louis. The Lonesome Gods. New York, NY: L’Amour, Louis. The Sixth Shotgun. New York, NY: Wilde, Oscar. The Importance of Being Earnest. New York: Dover Publications, 1990. Bantam Books, 2005 Print. 12 13 Winter Formal with VMI Held in Cochran Library Paper or Plastic? A well-worn phrase, perhaps: the request for the delivery Winter Formal with VMI held in the Kitty vehicle of choice by the grocery store person for your food Corbett Powell’38 Reading Room. For the second year in a row the StARS­—Student Activities items. Yet, nowadays, we have the opportunity to select Representatives—held its winter formal in the the delivery system of the printed word. Paper, having library. The students decorated the library room been used for thousands of years, is giving way to (plastic) and everyone had a grand time! electronic distribution via the modern day miracles of the internet & e-books. Many bemoan the loss of the printed page and are reluctant to embrace this new way of reading. I have an older friend, however, who is thrilled to read his Wall Street Journal every morning @ 0530 on his Kindle. Then again, I know scores of my peers (sorry, but I’m not at liberty to name names) who just can’t acclimate to the new read/scroll routine of electronic reading. Library Wedding Regardless of the one’s personal preference between Astrid Liverman’98 was married to Taylor Streetman on May 28, 2011 in the Kitty paper and plastic, when it comes to books, isn’t it Corbett Powell’38 Reading Room. Astrid said the library was one of her most magnificent that millions of readers worldwide can now favorite places in the world! readily access information and books. 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