{"id":799,"date":"2012-06-18T18:58:39","date_gmt":"2012-06-18T18:58:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/?p=799"},"modified":"2012-06-21T13:30:37","modified_gmt":"2012-06-21T13:30:37","slug":"the-watkinson-during-reunion-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/2012\/06\/18\/the-watkinson-during-reunion-week\/","title":{"rendered":"The Watkinson during Reunion Week!"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>During “reunion week” (the second week of June) this year there were several opportunities to see Watkinson rarities.\u00a0 On Wendesday the 6th about a dozen alumni attended a presentation entitled “John James Audubon: American Dreamer.”\u00a0 Born in Haiti, educated in France, and sent to America to avoid the draft (i.e. Napoleon’s conscripted legions), Audubon is an early example of American self-fashioning.\u00a0 Works by Audubon, as well as his contemporaries Alexander Wilson<\/a> and Prideaux John Selby<\/a>, and his fore-runner Mark Catesby<\/a>, were out on display for folks to view.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>On Friday a crowd of some 40-50 people (mostly Class of ’57) enjoyed a screening of David Elliott’s award-winning film The Curious Mr. Catesby <\/em>(2007).\u00a0 Mr. Elliott (’57) is the Executive Director of the Catesby Commemorative Trust<\/a>.\u00a0 I brought out the Watkinson’s copy of the first edition of Catesby’s Natural History of Carolina, Florida and the Bahama Islands<\/em> (1731-43) and showed it to an appreciative crowd.\u00a0 Trinity was able to purchase this copy in 1883 through the generosity of a “rich uncle” of a Trinity alumnus (George Lewis Cooke, class of 1870).<\/p>\n

The next day a steady stream of visitors were able to view the “bird of the week” from John James Audubon’s Birds of America<\/em> set, which has been at Trinity for 112 years, as well as the newly acquired 2nd Folio of Shakespeare<\/a>.\u00a0 At 1:30, with the help of Watkinson Trustee Jack Enders (’92), I presented a selection of recent acquisitions of ornithology material for the Enders collection<\/a>, given by his grandfather, Ostrom Enders in the 1980s.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

During “reunion week” (the second week of June) this year there were several opportunities to see Watkinson rarities.\u00a0 On Wendesday the 6th about a dozen alumni attended a presentation entitled “John James Audubon: American Dreamer.”\u00a0 Born in Haiti, educated in France, and sent to America to avoid the draft (i.e. Napoleon’s conscripted legions), Audubon is […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":122,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[18,8],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/122"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=799"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":806,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/799\/revisions\/806"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=799"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=799"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/commons.trincoll.edu\/watkinson\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=799"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}