{"id":766,"date":"2012-05-21T14:33:21","date_gmt":"2012-05-21T14:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=766"},"modified":"2012-05-21T14:33:21","modified_gmt":"2012-05-21T14:33:21","slug":"commencement-crowd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2012\/05\/21\/commencement-crowd\/","title":{"rendered":"Commencement crowd!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_22561.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-768\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_22561-300x134.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"134\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_22561-300x134.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_22561-1024x459.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Thanks mostly to the enthusiastic comments made by President Jones during Commencement weekend, we had over 100 visitors to the Watkinson on Saturday to see the recently acquired <a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2012\/05\/03\/watkinson-acquires-2nd-folio-1632-of-shakespeare\/\">&#8220;Second Folio&#8221; of Shakespeare<\/a>.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t often see people literally lining up to see our books, but it is entirely gratifying.<\/p>\n<p>Folks also were impressed by our marvelous copy of John James Audubon&#8217;s <em>Birds of America<\/em>, which is on permanent display (we turn the page to show a new bird every week).<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_2257.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-769\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_2257-300x161.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"161\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_2257-300x161.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_2257-1024x552.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>Other items which I brought out for the day included two engravings on copper sheets which were used to illustrate Prideaux John Selby&#8217;s <em>Illustrations of British Ornithology<\/em> (published 1834-39), which were placed alongside the book itself.\u00a0 Selby was a contemporary of Audubon, and the two ornithologists compared notes and shared insights when the latter was at work in England.<\/p>\n<p>Parents and students appreciated the current exhibition, <em>Drawing Birds<\/em>, which features sketches done by students last semester for Devin Dougherty&#8217;s Studio Arts class (Drawing I), especially as they noticed the work of friends and classmates.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_2258.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-770\" src=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_2258-300x135.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"135\" srcset=\"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_2258-300x135.jpg 300w, http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/files\/2012\/05\/IMG_2258-1024x461.jpg 1024w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Thanks mostly to the enthusiastic comments made by President Jones during Commencement weekend, we had over 100 visitors to the Watkinson on Saturday to see the recently acquired &#8220;Second Folio&#8221; of Shakespeare.\u00a0 We don&#8217;t often see people literally lining up to see our books, but it is entirely gratifying. 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