Locks of the Lilly: Examples of hair in the Lilly Library Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry showcases some the Lilly Library’s famous and lesser-known hairy materials! Raising awareness for men’s ... December 6, 2024
Lessons in Latrinalia It was, perhaps, unfair to introduce Allen Walker Read’s Lexical Evidence from Folk Epigraphy in the last post without providing ... November 14, 2024
A Little Dictionary of Obscenities Allen Walker Read, who has already appeared in our posts, was a close friend of Madeline Kripke. He lived in ... November 1, 2024
Amazing Adventures at the Lilly: Celebrating the World Premiere of the Kavalier and Clay Opera at IU Teaching and outreach assistant Maggie McDonald makes some magic in the stacks in celebration of the world premiere of The ... October 31, 2024
BOOkplates: Macabre Marks of Ownership Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry calls forth spooky bookplates from the great beyond (the stacks of the Lilly Library), ... October 28, 2024
Stranger Than Lilies: A Cryptobotanical Survey of Freakish Flora, Peculiar Plants, and Historical Herbals (Part II) Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry goes foraging in our collections to find weird and wild specimens of flora, again! ... October 11, 2024
Artist, (Genius), Human: Exploring Drafts of Vonnegut’s Slaughterhouse-Five Teaching and outreach assistant Helen Gunn looks for Vonnegut in his drafts of Slaughterhouse-Five. A walk through the Lilly Library’s ... September 27, 2024
Stranger Than Lilies: A Cryptobotanical Survey of Freakish Flora, Peculiar Plants, and Historical Herbals (Part I) Curatorial and Outreach Assistant Jake Gentry goes foraging in our collections to find weird and wild specimens of flora. “But ... September 14, 2024
The Box of Lost Tales: John Boorman’s Lord of the Rings Most people who are familiar with the director-writer-producer John Boorman know him for the iconic 1981 fantasy film, Excalibur. Many ... August 19, 2024
Love, Jerry: A Celebration of Love, Loss, and the Life of a Gay Man in the 1970s-90s In celebration of Pride Month, student Curatorial Assistant Jake Gentry shares his exploration of the newly-processed archive of writer, activist ... June 20, 2024