For many the Memorial Day holiday we celebrated Monday signals the beginning of summer. When I think summer I think new ways of cooking and new foods to cook. You have access to a lot of cookbooks through the library, some of them electronic, and you can find them in a very long list using …
Monthly Archives: May 2008
Connection: HSRT’s Production of "Kiss Me Kate"
Hope Summer Repertory Theatre’s 2008 season begins June 13th with Kiss Me Kate. Before you attend, read a 1948 New York Times review of the original production. Remember that you can read any article or other feature from The New York Times online thanks to archival access in ProQuest’s Historical Newspapers database. Ask about finding …
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A Solemn Memorial Day
Memorial Day has its origins in the end of the U.S Civil War. There are many ways to read about the civil war, two very recent titles look at how the war shaped American ideas of death. In This Republic of Suffering: Death and the American Civil War Drew Faust contends that the massive loss …
Connection: Voorhees Hall Gets a New Roof
Hope’s beloved Voorhees Hall is getting a new roof this month. Voorhees has a long history, one filled with renewal as told this past fall in The Joint Archives Quarterly by May 2008 Hope College graduate Lauren Berka. Bring your questions about Hope College history to the Reference Desk or to the Joint Archives of …
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The Third Saturday in May
Saturday is Armed Forces Day, a day first set aside to honor those serving in all branches of the armed services in 1949. “It is our most earnest hope that those who are in positions of peril, that those who have made exceptional sacrifices, yes, and those who are afflicted with plain drudgery and boredom, …
Connection: NCAA Golf Championships
Hope College’s men’s golf team plays in the NCAA Division III golf championship this week. NCAA men’s golf is undergoing a change in how teams reach championship play. Read about the new criteria and how teams are responding in an April Golf World article. For more information about the game of golf, ask for source …
Connection: Orchid Show
The Orchid Show is open in the A. Paul Schaap Science Center this week. The world’s largest orchid show is an annual event in Miami, Florida described in a Miami Herald article earlier this year. For more information about the increasing popularity of orchids and how you might start cultivating a few orchid plants of …