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150 YEARS AGO: “The Dedication of Gettysburg Cemetery,” The Caledonian, Nov. 27, 1863

The Library of Congress picked an article from The Caledonian (St. Johnsbury, VT) to commemorate the event:

On Nov. 19, 1863, President Abraham Lincoln presided over the dedication of a new National Cemetery at Gettysburg, PA, site of one of the most destructive battles of the Civil War (see the Chronicling America Topics Page on the Battle of Gettysburg – https://www.loc.gov/rr/news/topics/gettysburg.html – to explore further). The Caledonian (St. Johnsbury, VT) joined other newspapers across the country in describing the events of the day for its readers, including reprinting Lincoln’s now famous speech beginning with “Four score and seven years ago…” The speech was described as “a perfect gem,” “unexpected in its verbal perfection and beauty….” Read more about it!

IFLA World Library & Information Congress 2013. From our perspective; Erenst Anip & Birdie MacLennan.

At the UVM Libraries Staff & Faculty Development Committee brown bag lunch talk on November 14, 2013, Birdie and Erenst share their experience at the pre-conference, conference and Singapore in general. It was fun to share our experiences in Singapore. Read more about it!

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Slideshow of the presentation in pdf format is available on VTDNP Outreach webpage along with our presentation slides at the IFLA conference: https://library.uvm.edu/vtnp/presentations.html

Direct pdf link: https://library.uvm.edu/vtnp/publicity/UVM_Libraries_SFDC_IFLA-Singapore_2013-11-14.pdf

Cheers,

Erenst

Behind The Scene: Production Update of November 2013

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Recently, VTDNP workspace received the rest of the microfilm reels to be digitized from our vendor. Approximately 76 reels of historic Vermont newspapers are ready to be digitized. These titles can be found on the bottom of this page. Please note that we pair master negative microfilm reel with its duplicate negative side by side. We also will add working microfilm copy (the ones stacked on top of the reels) for quality inspection.

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Also, we have received the digitized files of Cronaca Sovversiva. Please scroll down to see one version of their illustrated mast heads. We’ll keep you updated when the title have been ingested into Chronicling America‘s database. Grazie!

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Cronaca Sovversiva masthead from Saturday, January 7, 1905. Year 3 Number 1.

A Spectral Story: Queen City Cotton Mill Ghost

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“Burlington’s Ghost.” From the Vermont Watchman, November 28, 1900.

Happy Halloween, or as the historic newspapers have it, happy Hallowe’en, from VTDNP!

Halloween is today, and thus, it’s appropriate to share a ghostly tale that captivated Burlingtonians at the turn of the twentieth-century at the Queen City Cotton Mill on Burlington’s waterfront. Dozens of people attested to witnessing the apparition of a recently-deceased mill worker, Marie Blais, around the premise of the property.

Marie was hit by a train in June of 1900 at the Lakeside railroad crossing, and was killed immediately.

By that fall, stories of the female mill ghost became prevalent–the lights of the trains would flicker when passing over where Marie was killed, and people attested to seeing visions of the girl near the railroad tracks and of her working at her old loom in the mill at night. Some even attested to hearing screams near the track. Continue reading A Spectral Story: Queen City Cotton Mill Ghost →

Resuming shipment to the Library of Congress

After a couple of weeks of shutdown, the government is operating again. While they were on hiatus, VTDNP continued to work on production and have gathered three batches (including two reworks) to be sent to the Library of Congress. They are on their way to DC now.

Furthermore, we have new content that will come out together with the next Chronicling America update. In the meantime, check out our newly-created FLICKR and PINTEREST account. Read and see more about it…

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Pelican cases containing external HDs containing VTDNP batch of digitized microfilms; posing before getting packed to be sent to the Library of Congress, post-Government-Shutdown.