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Oct 17, 2025 [Book] Artist Talk: Sandra Trujillo

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"I think about food the way I think about art and literature. I think of them all as these really simple, effective links. They all kind of create their own systems of communication." - Sandra Trujillo Wednesday, October 15, marked the final day of Hispanic Heritage Month. The...

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May 01, 2023 Book of the Week — Local Conditions

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"Out of the forest at last there stood the mountain, wholly unveiled, awful in bulk and majesty, filling all the view like a separate, new-born world, yet withal so fine and so beautiful it might well fire the dullest observer to desperate enthusiasm." — John Muir,...

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Nov 21, 2022 Book of the Week — Civil Dis-course: A Holiday Tool Kit

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"Let's have a civil conversation! We agree to respect one another as we talk and listen. No eye-rolling. No attitude...

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Jun 27, 2022 Now on Display! Printing Through the Pandemic

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Printing Through the Pandemic J. Willard Marriott, The University of Utah Levels 1 & 4 June 24 - September 23, 2022 This exhibition is free and open to the public. Delirium Philip Zimmermann Tucson, AZ: Spaceheater Editions, 2020 N7433.4 Z55 D45 2020 In early March 2020, under orders to evacuate the print shop, Emily...

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Jan 18, 2022 Book of the Week — La Mano dell’Uomo

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"My hand now raises the glass, hoping for reasonably happy times, and toasts to your health and ours, and signs...

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Dec 20, 2021 Book of the Week — Holiday Party Casseroles

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"Casserole cooking is easy as pie. A party is born in the wink of an eye." Holiday Party Casseroles Edna Beilenson Mount Vernon, NY: Peter Pauper Press, 1956 TX693 B45 1956 At the age of twenty-two, Peter Beilenson set up a small press in the basement of his father’s home...

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Nov 29, 2021 Book of the Week — Winter Count

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1970 - Pumpkin patch: Tom & Anne - alternating stem stitch, variation on couching, double running or holbein stitch. Winter Count Anne Greenwood Portland, Oregon: A. Greenwood, 2008 N7433.4 G744 W56 2008 Among several tribes on the Northern Plains the passage of time was marked by noting a single memorable...

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Nov 23, 2021 Book of the Week — The 17 Horse Songs of Frank Mitchell…

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Sep 30, 2021 BANNED! — The Scarlet Letter

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“She had wandered, without rule or guidance, into a moral wilderness...

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May 22, 2021 In Memoriam — Marie Christensen Dern (October 17, 1936-May 22, 2020)

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Last year, on May 22, Rare Books lost our dear friend, Marie Christensen Dern. On that day, like the rest of the world, we were sheltering in place. We were locked out of our office, and more disorientingly, out of the Rare Books Vault. We...

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