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A Middle Dutch Psalter

04/11/2023

A small oddity found in the rare book room at Miller Library has left us with a little mystery; It is a small book measuring only five inches by three and a half inches but with over four hundred hand-written pages.

  • Illuminated Manuscripts
  • Medieval
  • Netherlands
  • Psalters
  • Archives
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Every Bookplate a Mystery - Eugene Field

04/04/2023

Clifton Miller Library’s Rare Book Room contains many books donated by other charitable libraries, former professors, alumni, and students. The bookplates tell the story of their former owners. However, many of the bookplates themselves are a mystery.

  • Rare Books
  • Bookplates
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Two Truths and a Lie about Washington College

03/31/2023

In celebration of April Fool’s Day, we present to our readers two truths and a lie about Washington College history and tradition. See if you can guess which are which! Just for fun, the lie will contain a grain of truth!

  • April Fool's
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Kathleen Carpenter: Mother of Freshwater Ecology

03/28/2023

Washington College’s excellence in Environmental Science has deep roots. It is possible that the local environment attracted Dr. Kathleen E. Carpenter, sometimes called the Mother of Freshwater Ecology, to the Eastern Shore and Washington College.

  • CES
  • Ecology
  • Kathleen Carpenter
  • Archives
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Every Bookplate a Mystery

03/24/2023

Clifton Miller Library’s Rare Book Room contains many books donated by other charitable libraries, former professors, alumni, and students. The bookplates tell the story of their former owners. However, many of the bookplates themselves are a mystery.

  • Rare Books
  • Bookplates
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Maryland Beaten Biscuits

03/21/2023

One of the oldest Eastern Shore recipes is also one of the area’s most contentious. Variously called “Virginia”, “Delaware”, and “’Maryland’ beaten biscuits” depending on which state you happen to be in at the time, these biscuits are well-known in the region for their unique manner of being made.

  • Maryland
  • Recipes
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Charlemagne

03/07/2023

Behold this six-inch tall two-volume poem on Charlemagne’s conquests.

  • Rare Book Room
Allie Reid's book list

The Notebooks of Allie Reid

02/28/2023

Charles Reid served as Washington College’s 14th President and is responsible for instituting coeducation. It would then come as no surprise that his wife shared his academic pursuits.

  • Diaries
  • Washington College Presidents
  • Archives
Norris Commodore

Norris Commodore, class of 1973

02/21/2023

45’ 11”! Breaking his previous shot-put record of 43’ 3”, and 6 inches farther than the record set in 1929: even in 1971, Norris Commodore was making a lasting impression at Washington College.

  • Alumni
  • Athletics
  • Class of 1973
  • Track and Field
  • Archives