{"id":1445,"date":"2013-10-09T15:53:59","date_gmt":"2013-10-09T15:53:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=1445"},"modified":"2013-10-09T15:57:42","modified_gmt":"2013-10-09T15:57:42","slug":"family-weekend-poster-sale-a-success","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2013\/10\/09\/family-weekend-poster-sale-a-success\/","title":{"rendered":"Family weekend poster sale a success"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/10\/foto.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-1446\" alt=\"foto\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/10\/foto-300x225.jpg\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/10\/foto-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2013\/10\/foto-1024x768.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>On Saturday of Family Weekend (October 5th), we held a poster sale at Vernon Social to raise awareness about (and a little money for) our intended acquisition of the first edition (1855) of Walt Whitman&#8217;s <em>Leaves of Grass.\u00a0 <\/em><\/p>\n<p>These are original event posters from various venues in Rhode Island from the 1970s &#8211; 1990s, ranging from circuses to magic shows, musical theater, professional wrestling, boxing, and musical acts, among others. The posters were de-accessioned by another university as duplicates, and given to us without restriction.<\/p>\n<p>Although the actual money raised was small ($250) compared to our goal ($50,000 by December 31), we sold over 50 posters, and I spoke with many people about the Watkinson and its programs, which was an immeasurable gain.<\/p>\n<p>We still have over 400 posters left, available in the Watkinson until the end of the semester and on display in two racks behind the case in which the copy of <em>Leaves of Grass<\/em> we wish to acquire is displayed.\u00a0 If you are looking for some funky art for your dorm walls, or a funny, retro\/nostalgic gift for your crazy uncle at Christmas, or just a good laugh&#8211;stop on by!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday of Family Weekend (October 5th), we held a poster sale at Vernon Social to raise awareness about (and a little money for) our intended acquisition of the first edition (1855) of Walt Whitman&#8217;s Leaves of Grass.\u00a0 These are original event posters from various venues in Rhode Island from the 1970s &#8211; 1990s, ranging [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[8,22],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1445"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1448,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1445\/revisions\/1448"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1445"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1445"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1445"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}