NOON
Folsom Library's Fischbach Room
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12/3/04 Michael Halloran

In "Picturesque Patriotism," Halloran traces the experiences and motives of some nineteenth-century visitors
to the site of the Battles of Saratoga, among them Timothy Dwight and Benjamin Silliman, respectively president and
professor of natural science at Yale; historian, writer, and artist Benson Lossing; and Ellen Hardin Walworth, a founder of the Daughters
of the American Revolution. In varying degrees, these visitors were influenced by the practice of "picturesque tourism" as well as by
the patriotic desire to do honor to national heroes. They were moved by the beauties of the landscape as well as by the
historical associations that were inscribed on it in the form of earthworks, buildings that had been occupied by soldiers, trees that bore
the scars of musket and cannon balls, even human bones that were turned up by farmers' plows. The accounts of their visits,
ranging from the first decade (Dwight) to the eighth decade (Walworth) of the 1800s, document changes in the landscape and the
replacement of a past that could be directly recollected by a past represented in written form.

Michael Halloran retired from the Department of Language, Literature, and Communication (LL&C) in 2003, though he remains active
in both teaching (mostly informal) and scholarship. One of the early graduates of LL&C's Ph.D. program in Communication and Rhetoric, he is
a Fellow of the Rhetoric Society of America, which he served as President in 1992-1193 and as Executive Secretary 1995-2002. At Rensselaer he was
Chair of the Department of LL&C 1985-1988 and Associate Dean of Humanities & Social Sciences 1987-1993.

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Friends of Folsom Library Annual Luncheon
Brian Hawkins - President, EDUCAUSE
"Information Resources in the Future: Challenges of the Digital Era"
10/6/04

THANK YOU FOR A SUCCESSFUL EVENT.
The talk explored some of the challenges that libraries face as the transition from print-on-paper to digital environments unfolds.
Hawkins discussed the unsustainability of the current publishing model, addressed the challenges of collaboration, and proposed a vision for the future.