{"id":2239,"date":"2015-12-17T19:54:48","date_gmt":"2015-12-17T19:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=2239"},"modified":"2015-12-17T19:57:58","modified_gmt":"2015-12-17T19:57:58","slug":"opening-of-student-shows-pieces-of-eight","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2015\/12\/17\/opening-of-student-shows-pieces-of-eight\/","title":{"rendered":"Opening of student shows (&#8220;Pieces of Eight&#8221;)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/26.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2240\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/26-300x214.jpg\" alt=\"26\" width=\"300\" height=\"214\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/26-300x214.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/26-1024x730.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/26.jpg 1055w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Last night we had over 50 people attend the opening of &#8220;Pieces of Eight,&#8221; <span dir=\"ltr\">the collective title of a showcase of eight separate student exhibitions in the Watkinson Library, which will run through June 30, 2016. This is the fifth annual such showcase of student exhibitions, and the turnout of faculty, students, parents and staff was very gratifying.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>The exhibits and their curators are as follows:<\/p>\n<p><em>Handmaid to History: What is Antiquarianism? \/ <\/em>Elizabeth Askren \u201817<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0\u201cFollowing the Light of the Sun, We Left the Old World\u201d: The Dawn of Printing \/ <\/em>Alec Buffamonte \u201817<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0An Uneven Playing Field: Sports and Social Classes in Britain \/ <\/em>Marcus Cinotti, graduate student<\/p>\n<p><em>\u00a0Who You Gonna Call? Ghost Hunters from 1860-1960 \/ <\/em>Hunter Drews \u201816<\/p>\n<p><em>Bluejackets &amp; Devil Dogs: U.S. Navy and Marine Corps Recruiting Posters from the Great War \/ <\/em>Jordan Finning, graduate student<\/p>\n<p><em>From Ragtime to Rock &amp; Roll: Music Culture at Trinity College \/ <\/em>Matthew Nazarian, graduate student<\/p>\n<p><em>Victorian Ladies Leave the Sidelines: Women in Sports, 1860-1890 \/ <\/em>Rosangelica Rodriguez, graduate student<\/p>\n<p><em>Infant Doping and the Opium Imagination \/ <\/em>Sarah St. Germain, graduate student<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/62.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2241\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/62-300x135.jpg\" alt=\"62\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/62-300x135.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/62-1024x460.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/62.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/55.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2242\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/55-300x130.jpg\" alt=\"55\" width=\"300\" height=\"130\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/55-300x130.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/55-1024x445.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/55.jpg 1162w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/6.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-2245\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/6-300x199.jpg\" alt=\"6\" width=\"300\" height=\"199\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/6-300x199.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/6-1024x680.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2015\/12\/6.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last night we had over 50 people attend the opening of &#8220;Pieces of Eight,&#8221; the collective title of a showcase of eight separate student exhibitions in the Watkinson Library, which will run through June 30, 2016. 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