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Colonial Recipes

Colonial Recipes

04/18/2023

From the outside, 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 copy of 鈥淐olonial recipes from old Virginia and Maryland Manors鈥 by Maude A. Bomberger is not much to look at. Sure, the font on the spine and cover is kind of neat, there鈥檚 a cute drawing of a country estate on the front, and the cloth is a nice shade of blue. But the wear and tear on the spine are evident, the binding is clearly loose, and who wants to eat like an American colonist, anyway?

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A Middle Dutch Psalter

04/11/2023

A small oddity found in the rare book room at Miller Library has left us with a little mystery; It is a small book measuring only five inches by three and a half inches but with over four hundred hand-written pages.

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Every Bookplate a Mystery - Eugene Field

04/04/2023

Clifton Miller Library鈥檚 Rare Book Room contains many books donated by other charitable libraries, former professors, alumni, and students. The bookplates tell the story of their former owners. However, many of the bookplates themselves are a mystery.

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  • Bookplates
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Two Truths and a Lie about 蜜桃传媒

03/31/2023

In celebration of April Fool鈥檚 Day, we present to our readers two truths and a lie about 蜜桃传媒 history and tradition. See if you can guess which are which! Just for fun, the lie will contain a grain of truth!

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Kathleen Carpenter: Mother of Freshwater Ecology

03/28/2023

蜜桃传媒鈥檚 excellence in Environmental Science has deep roots. It is possible that the local environment attracted Dr. Kathleen E. Carpenter, sometimes called the Mother of Freshwater Ecology, to the Eastern Shore and 蜜桃传媒.

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蜜桃传媒

Every Bookplate a Mystery

03/24/2023

Clifton Miller Library鈥檚 Rare Book Room contains many books donated by other charitable libraries, former professors, alumni, and students. The bookplates tell the story of their former owners. However, many of the bookplates themselves are a mystery.

  • Rare Books
  • Bookplates
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Maryland Beaten Biscuits

03/21/2023

One of the oldest Eastern Shore recipes is also one of the area鈥檚 most contentious. Variously called 鈥淰irginia鈥, 鈥淒elaware鈥, and 鈥溾橫aryland鈥 beaten biscuits鈥 depending on which state you happen to be in at the time, these biscuits are well-known in the region for their unique manner of being made.

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Charlemagne

03/07/2023

Behold this six-inch tall two-volume poem on Charlemagne鈥檚 conquests.

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Allie Reid's book list

The Notebooks of Allie Reid

02/28/2023

Charles Reid served as 蜜桃传媒鈥檚 14th President and is responsible for instituting coeducation. It would then come as no surprise that his wife shared his academic pursuits.

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