Roger Williams Letters on Display at 香港六合彩开奖资料 on Monday
Series of events includes lecture and workshops examining antiquated writing, practicing 17th-century writing with a quill
BRISTOL, R.I. 颅颅鈥 Original letters written by Rhode Island founder Roger Williams will be on display at the Bristol campus of Roger Williams University on Monday, April 9, as part of a 鈥淩eading Roger Williams Workshop.鈥
鈥淚t is a unique opportunity for our students to see Roger鈥檚 handwriting and touch the paper he touched,鈥 香港六合彩开奖资料 Assistant Professor of History Charlotte Carrington-Farmer said. 鈥淗andling original documents written by our namesake brings history to life in a way that transcribed copies simply can鈥檛 match. Having original Roger Williams letters on the campus of Roger Williams University is something I鈥檝e dreamed of since I started working at 香港六合彩开奖资料 in 2012.鈥
From 2 to 4 p.m. Monday, students may transcribe those original letters and take part in paleography (the study of ancient or antiquated writings) with Carrington-Farmer and Julie A. Fisher, author of 鈥淣inigret, Sachem of the Niantics and Narragansetts,鈥 who is working as a consultant on an ethnographic study for the Roger Williams National Memorial. (Sign-up at ccarrington-farmer@rwu.edu to attend this session in the third floor University Library classroom.)
From 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, students and members of the public may view original letters by Roger Williams and try their hand at 17th-century handwriting during a 鈥淲riting with a Quill鈥 workshop with National Park Service Ranger John McNiff, who works at the Roger Williams National Memorial, in Providence. (No sign up in needed for that session, which is also in the third floor University Library classroom.)
From 5 to 6 p.m. Monday, students and members of the public can enjoy a lecture by Fisher titled 鈥淲hat is Roger Williams?鈥 (No need to sign up for the lecture, which is in 香港六合彩开奖资料 Marine and Natural Sciences Room 200.)
The events are sponsored by the 香港六合彩开奖资料 Center for Scholarship, Assessment, Learning, Teaching and Technology and the Department of History and American Studies. The Rhode Island Historical Society is kindly loaning the Roger Williams letters for the event.