{"id":1455,"date":"2010-12-07T10:00:37","date_gmt":"2010-12-07T10:00:37","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=1455"},"modified":"2021-10-20T15:05:51","modified_gmt":"2021-10-20T15:05:51","slug":"a-celebration-of-conn-and-twain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/12\/07\/a-celebration-of-conn-and-twain\/","title":{"rendered":"A Celebration of Conn and Twain"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_1456\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/reading.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1456\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-1456\" src=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.files.wordpress.com\/2010\/12\/reading.jpg?w=300\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2010\/12\/reading.jpg 800w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2010\/12\/reading-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/files\/2010\/12\/reading-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1456\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Ken Noll and Jerry Krasser reading from &#8220;3000 Years Among the Microbes&#8221; by Mark Twain, December 6, 2010<\/p><\/div>\n<p>You might have noticed that I posted last week about an <a href=\"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/2010\/11\/30\/mark-twain-and-the-science-of-dr-conn\/\">exhibit<\/a> a INTD class constructed about Mark Twain and Connecticut microbiologist H.W. Conn.\u00a0 The exhibit depicts the work of the two men, particularly about how Conn&#8217;s work on microbes was influential for Twain&#8217;s essay &#8220;3000 Years Among the Microbes,&#8221; written in 1905.\u00a0 The exhibit is currently up in the Plaza Alcove in Homer Babbidge Library until December 17.<\/p>\n<p>Yesterday, in the library&#8217;s Class of &#8217;47 room, was a celebration of the exhibit, where Professor Ken Noll acknowledged the work of the freshmen honors students of the class.\u00a0 A wonderful bonus to the program was a reading of Twain&#8217;s essay, by Prof. Noll and Emeritus Professor of Dramatic Arts Jerry Krasser.<\/p>\n<p>The local NPR affiliate interviewed Prof. Noll prior to the event and taped the reading, and information about the event was aired this morning on WNPR out of Hartford.<\/p>\n<!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on the_content --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on the_content -->","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You might have noticed that I posted last week about an exhibit a INTD class constructed about Mark Twain and Connecticut microbiologist H.W. Conn.\u00a0 The exhibit depicts the work of the two men, particularly about how Conn&#8217;s work on microbes &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/12\/07\/a-celebration-of-conn-and-twain\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><!-- AddThis Advanced Settings generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><!-- AddThis Share Buttons generic via filter on get_the_excerpt --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":38,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NKyO-nt","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/38"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1455"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9463,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1455\/revisions\/9463"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1455"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1455"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1455"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}