Dear Diary -- Before There Were Blogs
Dana Goblaskas, Liz Andrews
Fri Jan 20, 11am-12:30pm, 14N-118
Enrollment limited: first come, first served
Limited to 25 participants.
Single session event
Have you ever wanted to take a peek inside a day in the life of an MIT student or faculty member? Come explore some diaries from the Institute Archives & Special Collections and read accounts of…
-founder William Barton Rogers’s wedding trip
-a world cruise
-trekking across Texas in a covered wagon
-a future MIT president’s teenage adventures as a ship’s radio operator
-the founding of the United Nations
-working with radar during World War Two
-traveling in India, Australia, Germany, Mali, Burkina Faso, and the Azores
-and more!
Diaries date from 1849 to 1973. You never know what adventures you’ll uncover!
This session will last 90 minutes, with a 10-minute introduction at the beginning and then time to peruse the diaries at your leisure. Drop by anytime and stay as long as you want.
Contact: Dana Goblaskas, 14N-118, x3-5705, dgoblask@mit.edu
Sponsor: Libraries
Latest update: 16-Nov-2011
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