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Spadafore, Sampson, Benjamin Lachapelle

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Sampson Spadafore is a 27-year-old queer, transmasculine person who currently lives in Westbrook, Maine. They are originally from Syracuse, New York, and attended Nazareth College in Rochester, New York. They graduated with a degree in musical theater. Spadafore discusses shifts in their gender self-presentation and gender fluidity as well as media erasure of trans men. They then moved to Portland, Maine, to work for Maine Boys to Men and have also worked with Speak About It; Maine Renters United; and Democratic Socialists of America. A political current focus is using social media and art to raise awareness about Palestine. Writing …

Cadwallader, Megan, Gretchen Thiele

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

Meghan Cadwallader was born in 1976 in a small, rural town in Upstate New York. She grew up with a stable family and surrounded by the Catholic religion. Cadwallader realized she was lesbian around her junior year of high school. However, her sexuality was never a huge deal, more just another part of her. She went to college at Holland’s University, and all-girls school, in which she initially came out to people resulting in mixed responses. Meghan then went to Bucknell University In Pennsylvania. She received a degree in French and English with a concentration in creative writing. She talks …

Color, Countee Cullen

Zea E-Books in American Studies

Poet, playwright, novelist, graduate of DeWitt Clinton High, New York University, and Harvard University, Countee Cullen (1903–1946) emerged as a leading literary figure of the Harlem Renaissance. Color (1925), his first published book of poetry, confronts head-on what W.E.B. DuBois called “the problem of the 20th century—the problem of the color line.” The work includes 72 poems, such as the following:

Incident (For Eric Walrond)

Once riding in old Baltimore,
Heart-filled, head-filled with glee,
I saw a Baltimorean
Keep looking straight at me.

Now I was eight and very small,
And he was no whit bigger,
And so I smiled, …

The Gaelic Background Of Old English Poetry Before Bede, Colin A. Ireland

Richard Rawlinson Center Series

Seventh-century Gaelic law-tracts delineate professional poets (filid) who earned high social status through formal training. These poets cooperated with the Church to create an innovative bilingual intellectual culture in Old Gaelic and Latin. Bede described Anglo-Saxon students who availed themselves of free education in Ireland at this culturally dynamic time. Gaelic scholars called sapientes (“wise ones”) produced texts in Old Gaelic and Latin that demonstrate how Anglo-Saxon students were influenced by contact with Gaelic ecclesiastical and secular scholarship. Seventh-century Northumbria was ruled for over 50 years by Gaelic-speaking kings who could access Gaelic traditions. Gaelic literary traditions provide …

Williams, Maya, Daisy Pelletier

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

*Included at the end of the interview is an original poem read by Maya.

Maya Williams is a 25-year-old Black, queer, trans, Christian person who grew up in North Carolina. Ey moved to Maine to attend grad school at the University of New England. They worked at Maine Inside Out as an intern while at the University of New England. She has also worked at Equality Maine, and now works at Maine Trans Net. Her Christian faith is important to her, and organizations like ChIME (Chaplaincy Institute of Maine), and interfaith organization that educations and ordains chaplains, and The BTS …

Middle English "Tarantulas": A New Edition Of The Destruction Of Jerusalem, Kara Mcshane

Faculty Baden Presentations

In this Baden presentation, Kara McShane gives an overview of her forthcoming edition of the understudied Middle English Destruction of Jerusalem, a late medieval siege narrative, and explores how the poem expands contemporary understandings of religious and cultural contact, conflict, and exchange in medieval English literature. The talk includes an interactive introduction to editing medieval texts.

Capturing Quarantine: Student Pandemic Experience Journal, Maria Clara Galvao Roriz Dantas

Public History Journals

Journal submitted from the first Public History 2020 summer session class at Columbia College Chicago reflecting on aspects of the global pandemic from the student perspective.

Guide To The Cyril Felix William Creque Collection, Columbia College Chicago

CBMR Collection Guides / Finding Aids

Cyril Creque was a poet, composer, and Health Department officer, born on St. Thomas and was one of the forerunners of the Virgin Islands poetic tradition. The collection contains a few of his music manuscripts, sheet music for one published song, and one book of poetry.

Drew, Lala, Erika Chadbourne, Kate Brezak

Querying the Past: LGBTQ Maine Oral History Project Collection

LaLa Drew is a Black, queer, Georgia born, Maine native. Drew was raised in Gray, Maine with their adoptive family. Drew is a writer, poet, activist, performer, artist, teacher, and inspirational catalyst for change. Much of Drew’s community engagement focuses on raising awareness about the black identity and embodiment. They teach an after-school program in Lewiston, Maine where they help students learn about climate change, capitalism, and racism. Drew is also known for their work as a writer. Their work has been published in Ms. Magazine, The Maine Sunday Telegram, The Deepwater Column, and the Portland Phoenix. They write about …

Undated Book Of Poetry, Marie-Jeanne Laurendeau

Marie-Jeanne Laurendeau

Undated book of poetry written by Marie-Jeanne Laurendeau, October 6 - January.

Undated Book Of Poetry, Songs, And Sheet Music, Marie-Jeanne Laurendeau

Marie-Jeanne Laurendeau

Undated book of poetry, songs, and sheet music written by Marie-Jeanne Laurendeau in French and English.

Undated Book Of Poetry And Notes, Marie-Jeanne Laurendeau

Marie-Jeanne Laurendeau

Herald Square memorandum book of poetry and notes written by Marie-Jeanne Laurendeau in French and English.

The Grizzly, November 17, 2016, Brian Thomas, Tommy Armstrong, Courtney A. Duchene, Fatiha Bilali, Sarah Hojsak, Jordan Scharaga, Joshua Brandon Hoffman, Jordan Hodess, Johnny Cope, Hunter Gellman

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Town Hall Discusses Election, Future of UC • Ursinus Mourns the Death of Junior Student • International Perspective: Moroccan TA Finds Place in the U.S. • UC Poetry Slams Hard • UCDC Fall Dance Concert to Showcase Student and Professional Work • Get to Know Kristin Evans, New Campus Safety Officer • Opinions: Post-Election Steps: Show Up, Resist, Be Nuanced; Waking Up the Morning After Trump Won • Men's Track Looks to Top the Conference in '16 • Fresh Faces to Make an Impact for UC Basketball

The Grizzly, April 14, 2016, Brian Thomas, William Diciurcio, Deana Harley, Joe Iullici, Tianxing Jiang, Sarah Hojsak, Grant Nulty, Valerie Osborne, Erin Mckinney, Leighnah L. Perkins, Tyler Arsenault, Hunter Gellman

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

White House Honors Alum Who Started Nonprofit • Greek Week Begins • "We Stand Together" Kicks Off • International Perspective: Cultural Differences Between Students • Students Explore Racial Issues Through Theater and Discussion • Passion, Pride and Protection • Making the Classroom a Place for Performance • Opinions: Minority Religions Deserve Accommodation; Choose Two: Sleep, Study or Socialize • Racket Up • Women's Golf Makes History as Men Look to Regain Stroke

The Grizzly, April 7, 2016, Brian Thomas, Johnny Myers, Emily Jolly, Saki Murakami, Deana Harley, Rachel Dickinson, Sarah Hojsak, Tyler Arsenault, Phoebe French, Leighnah L. Perkins, Johnny Cope, Hunter Gellman

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

UC Bikeshare Program Looks to Make Changes • UC to Hold First Disability Awareness Week in April • Course Registration Timeline • International Perspective: Cultural Approaches to Accepting Visitors and Foreigners • Update on Academic Affairs Office Change • Kaleidoscope Turns Ten • Poetic Start to Spring • Getting Down to Business • Opinions: Tuition Increase Goes Unexplained; Students Must Recognize Sexual Assault on Campus • Softball Makes Push for Conference Playoffs • Fresh Start

The Grizzly, February 16, 2012, Liz Kilmer, Nick Pane, Sara Hourwitz, Samantha Mascia, Lisa Jobe, Olivia Minick, James Noebels, Connor Gregory, Lauren Goldstein, Sarah Bollert, Anjali Patel, Taylor Sparks, Victoria Cameron, Matthew Johnston, Keith Baker

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Professor Debuts "A Bright Swarm of Beetles" • SPINTfest Offers Alternative Housing Options • S.U.N.'s Poetry Slam Entertains with a Variety of Guests • Commencement Awards to be Chosen by Students • UC Roller Hockey Program is Looking to Expand and Improve with New Recruits • UC Students Aid Spring-Ford School District after Tragic Suicide • Neuman Interns as Education Coordinator in Lancaster, PA • Opinion: Valentine's Day Hype is Overblown; Celebrate February 14 Regardless of Relationship Status • Coach Profile: Joe Groff, Women's Volleyball • Senior Spotlight: Lindsay Teuber, Women's Basketball • Senior Wrestlers Exemplify Leadership, Excellence

The Mad Whittler, Gaylon Jeep Wilcox

Maine Song and Story Sampler

“The Mad Whittler” is about Rangeley’s former dump, which may not sound like a traditional subject for poetry. The dump was, before being closed, a major attraction where people from all over gathered to watch bears forage.

The Grizzly, April 6, 2006, Ali Wagner, Bart Brooks, Dan Lamson, Allison Emery, Alexis Witt, Johanna Engel, Cecily Macconchie, Lane Taylor, Katie Perkins, Cori Turkowski, Ashley Higgins, Sonia N. Gonzalez, Jay Repko, Michael Graham

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Gerlach and Murphy Embroiled in Plagiarism Controversy • Edible Book Festival 2006 • Poem-palooza: From Slammers to Dead Poets • Tradition Brings Old and New Friends Together • Competing for a Good Cause • A Taste of Tantric • Once Upon a Time in France • Opinions: Standardized Testing for Colleges?; Drawing the Line: Moral Predicament of Abortion • Playoff Bound in 2006? • Noah Builds Ark Around Baby Gators

The Grizzly, March 31, 2005, Lauren A. Perotti, Lindsey Fund, Hilary Mcnamara, Lauren Carrescia, Megan Helzner, Matthew Pastor, Toyna Towles, Jaclyn Partyka '06, Kristin Carter, Bart Brooks, Hunter Berry, Ashley Higgins, Derek Talley, Cecily Macconchie, Kevin Murphy

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Poem-palooza Tonight • Senior Speaks About Giving Back • Get Amped for Airband! • No Boredom Allowed • Students Petition for Comcast Cable • SERV Members Attend National Conference • Help Hobson Help Others • Ursinus Students Build House During Spring Break • Study Abroad Cancellations • Erectile Dysfunction in Young Men • Experiencing the London Perspective • A New Drink: Water from the Body • Conversation with Mike Ditty • Fitzgerald Returns to Coach Women's Lacrosse • Chemistry is the Ingredient for Success • Men's Lacrosse Team Loses in a Nail-biter to F&M

The Grizzly, November 7, 2002, Anne Antanavage '04, Kelly Gray, Dean Edwards, Christina Abreu, Cara Nageli, Cassie Stewart, Dana Mazzenga, Brooks Reuter, Noelle Bolletino, Quinn Dinsmore, Eileen Algeo, Lauren Springer, Johanna Nash, Fallon Szarko, Abbey Sangmeister, Kate Juliano, Meghan Jarrett, Sean Brennan, Amy Beyer, Blake Forrest, Joseph Davido, Lindsey Fund, Bart Brooks

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Election 2002: Absent-Minded with Absentee Ballots • Redhat Makes Computer Connection at Ursinus • Reimert Robbers • "In Praise of Music" Presented Last Weekend • Boo from UC to You! • Don't Delete Your Future: Career Services Information • Professors Killed During Student Rampage and Suicide • Opinions: To Vote or not to Vote?; Sexual Harassment: A Problem for Ursinus Students; Sniper Caught: Will Peace be Restored? • Third Annual Poem-palooza a Success • Berman: "Social Surrealism" • Radio Talk Show Comes to Ursinus • Women's Soccer Season Better Than Record Shows • Field Hockey Finishes at the Top of …

The Grizzly, October 24, 2002, Anne Antanavage '04, Kelly Gray, Quinn Dinsmore, Blake Forrest, Cassie Stewart, Amy Beyer, Jessica Moore, Dean Edwards, Lauren Springer, Cara Nageli, Eileen Algeo, Jacqueline Jacobs, Fallon Szarko, Lisa Minardi, Kate Juliano, Johanna Nash, Noelle Bolletino, Jerel Smith, Dana Mazzenga, Nina Simoncavage, Lauren Denis, Sean Brennan, Meghan Jarrett

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Cloudy Weather Fails to Dampen Spirits for Homecoming 2002 • You Break it! You Buy it! • President Bush Warns of War as Situation in Iraq Intensifies • Psychology Department Welcomes Dr. DaCosta • Ursinus Awarded Gold Star for Excellence from DEEP Researchers • Career Services Offers Graduate Programs for Students • Student Profile: Ursinus Freshman a World Traveler • Opinions: Homecoming 2002 a Blast or a Bust?; Academic Dishonesty: Growing Wise to the Problem; Should our Newspaper Have a Sex Column? • Vandalism at Ursinus College • First Ever Ursinus Women's Magazine • Walter Annenberg Remembered • 70th Anniversary …

We Remember: Dayton Area Student Writing And Artwork About The Holocaust, Dayton Holocaust Resource Center

Dayton Holocaust Resource Center Publications

The study of the Holocaust involves very personal involvement by a teacher and the interaction of his or her students. The culmination oft his study may be writings or art that release the deep feelings stirred by this study.

For the past fifteen years we have conducted the Holocaust Writing Contest and the Max May Memorial Holocaust Art Contest to encourage this expression by students. Through the contests, we have seen some remarkable student work. Hundreds of Dayton-area public and parochial children in grades six through twelve have submitted their efforts. The level of sensitivity and creativity in these works …

The Grizzly, May 2, 2000, Stephanie Restine, Bradford Joyce, Emily Baltz, Diane Johnson, Dan Reimold, Jeff Church, Kevin Wilson, Stephanie Ott, Erny Hoke, Susan Patton, Fran Shaughnessy, Heather W. Gurk, Chris Calderelli

Ursinus College Grizzly Newspaper, 1978 to Present

Asbestos Mess Hits Helfferich Hard • Commencement Set for UC Seniors • Douglass Davis, UC Alumnus and Faculty Member, Dead at 81 • Annual Spring Fling a High-Flying Success • Students Selected to Speak at 2000 Ursinus Graduation Ceremonies • Letters from the Editors • Final Exam Schedule • UC Female Reflects on the Horrors of the Freshman Fifteen • The Poet-Tree Grows at Ursinus • A New Chapter in the History Books: Newmaster Hurls the First Perfect Game in Centennial Conference History • UC Track Gears Up for Last Meet • Profile: Lisa Newmaster • Bears Capture Back-to-Back CC …

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 44, No. 2, Susan Kalcik, June Granatir Alexander, M. Mark Stolarik, Corinne Earnest, Klaus Stopp, Jobie E. Riley

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Fortune's Stepchildren: Slovaks in Pennsylvania
• Slovak Churches: Religious Diversity and Ethnic Communities
• Slovak Fraternal-Benefit Societies in Pennsylvania
• Early Fraktur Referring to Birth and Baptism in Pennsylvania: A Taufpatenbrief from Berks County for a Child Born in 1751
• The Solitary Sisters of Saron

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 43, No. 1, Thomas E. Gallagher Jr., James D. Mcmahon Jr., Gary M. Johnston, Monica Mutzbauer, Robert P. Stevenson

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Causes of Diversity Between Old Order Amish Settlements
• Daniel Danner, Woodturner: An Early 19th-Century Rural Craftsman in Central Pennsylvania
• "Truth Somewhere in the Telling": The Legend of the Wigton Massacre
• The Connections Between Pennsylvania and the Palatinate in Popular 20th-Century German Literature
• The Story of One Old-Time Country Store

1993-1994 Annual Program, Phi Sigma

Annual Programs

This annual program outlines the topics discussed and presented at Phi Sigma's monthly meetings from October 1993 to May 1994. Each meeting includes a topic based on their yearly theme, "The Passing Parade: Influences."

Old Bulloch Personalities, Daniel B. Good, Milton Rahn, Scott Collins, Smith Callaway Banks, Chloe P. Mitchell, Robert D. Hemphill, Rita Turner Wall

Bulloch County Historical Society Publications

The sixth issue of Southern Folkways Journal Review contains poems handed down by three different Bulloch County families, a paper on the Salzburgers, an interview with Daisy Trapnell, an article on Bulloch County personality “Bitin’ Jake,” a letter concerning Isaac Chadburn Daniel, a query concerning the lives of John and Robert Dunwoody, and four sketches by Rita Turner Wall.

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 41, No. 1, Mary Lou Robson Fleming, Marianne Ruch, Steve Friesen, Robert P. Stevenson, Richard E. Wentz, Nancy K. Gaugler, Robin Clouser

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Jacob Maentel: A Second Look
• The Five-Plate Stove Revisited
• The Life and Death of an Appalachian Farm
• Henry Harbaugh, Quintessential "Dutchman"
• In Memoriam: William T. Parsons, 1923-1991

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 40, No. 3, Steve Friesen, Monica Mutzbauer, Christopher S. Witmer, Mary Lamey Hoffer, Harry W. Barner, Robert L. Leight, Catherine L. Emerson

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Home is Where the Hearth is
• The Hearth is Where the Cook is
• "Philipps gehn in Amerka": The Palatinate Emigration in German Schoolbooks
• The Barner Farm: A Connection to Clinton County's Pennsylvania-German Heritage
• A Teacher With a Heart: Carrie Frankenfield Horne
• Aldes un Neies (Old and New)

Pennsylvania Folklife Vol. 37, No. 3, Mary Lou Robson Fleming, Richard Matthews, William B. Fetterman, Erick D. Slazinski, N. F. Karlins, Leland D. Baldwin, Edward W. Chester

Pennsylvania Folklife Magazine

• Folk Artist Jacob Maentel of Pennsylvania and Indiana
• Up Another River: Fourteen Days on the St. Johns
• An Appreciation of Russell Wieder Gilbert
• Holy Images: A Brief Study of Folk Religious Belief
• Lamont Alfred "Old Ironsides" Pry, Contemporary American Folk Artist
• Synopsis of the Penburne Quintet