{"id":1455,"date":"2010-12-07T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2012-12-03T20:52:50","modified_gmt":"2012-12-03T20:52:50","slug":"a-celebration-of-conn-and-twain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/12\/07\/a-celebration-of-conn-and-twain\/","title":{"rendered":"A Celebration of Conn and Twain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1456\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/reading.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1456\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1456\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/reading.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2010\/12\/reading.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2010\/12\/reading-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2010\/12\/reading-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Noll and Jerry Krasser reading from &quot;3000 Years Among the Microbes&quot; by Mark Twain, December 6, 2010<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You might have noticed that I posted last week about an <a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/30\/mark-twain-and-the-science-of-dr-conn\/\">exhibit<\/a> a INTD class constructed about Mark Twain and Connecticut microbiologist H.W. Conn.\u00a0 The exhibit depicts the work of the two men, particularly about how Conn&#8217;s work on microbes was influential for Twain&#8217;s essay &#8220;3000 Years Among the Microbes,&#8221; written in 1905.\u00a0 The exhibit is currently up in the Plaza Alcove in Homer Babbidge Library until December 17.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, in the library&#8217;s Class of &#8217;47 room, was a celebration of the exhibit, where Professor Ken Noll acknowledged the work of the freshmen honors students of the class.\u00a0 A wonderful bonus to the program was a reading of Twain&#8217;s essay, by Prof. Noll and Emeritus Professor of Dramatic Arts Jerry Krasser.<\/p>\n<p>The local NPR affiliate interviewed Prof. Noll prior to the event and taped the reading, and information about the event was aired this morning on WNPR out of Hartford.\u00a0 You can find information about the spot at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.yourpublicmedia.org\/content\/wnpr\/probing-microbes\">http:\/\/www.yourpublicmedia.org\/content\/wnpr\/probing-microbes<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Laura Smith, Curator for Business, Railroad and Labor Collections<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have noticed that I posted last week about an exhibit a INTD class constructed about Mark Twain and Connecticut microbiologist H.W. Conn.\u00a0 The exhibit depicts the work of the two men, particularly about how Conn&#8217;s work on microbes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/12\/07\/a-celebration-of-conn-and-twain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3272,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/3272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}