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Director’s Letter 5th & University / July 2021

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  Warmest of greetings everyone, from the University Museum and William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak. I have the great pleasure of sharing with you much exciting news and three Hold the Date calendar entries for the weeks ahead. Let me start by reflecting on the great excitement we are all feeling to announce the hire of … Read more

Directors’ Letter 5th & University / June 2021

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  Greetings, everyone, from your University of Mississippi Museum, and William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak. Programmatically, everyone here remains engaged daily in furthering the development of augmented virtual offerings and digitizing collections for web-posting, while also turning now a full eye to a return to the ‘analog’ exhibitions world. We are beyond excited to be deeply … Read more

Directors’ Letter 5th & University / May 2021

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  Dear Friends of the University Museum & Rowan Oak, Warmest of greetings from the Museum, where I’m sitting in my office on one of the most exciting days of any academic year, Commencement 2021. Reflections on this particular day give me the opportunity to mention here the many University students who make our Museum … Read more

Directors’ Letter 5th & University / April 2021

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Friends, Warmest of Spring greetings from the University Museum and Rowan Oak, where signs of the emerging season are all around us. Some are challenging, like the cedar tree taken down by strong storm winds which blocked the entrance path to the Bailey Woods Trail for a half day this week. And some are certainly … Read more

Directors’ Letter 5th & University / February 2021

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Warmest of winter greetings from your University of Mississippi Museum and William Faulkner’s Rowan Oak! We hope that you have already undertaken as a first-week of every month habit the Inbox opening of our ‘What’s Happening’ subject line message, which carries the Newsletter you are reading, 5th & University. Over the course of the past … Read more