{"id":5406,"date":"2017-05-18T15:53:45","date_gmt":"2017-05-18T15:53:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/?p=5406"},"modified":"2021-01-29T20:07:26","modified_gmt":"2021-01-29T20:07:26","slug":"historically-yours-episode-4-a-poem-from-helen-keller-with-liz-riordan","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/speccoll\/2017\/05\/18\/historically-yours-episode-4-a-poem-from-helen-keller-with-liz-riordan\/","title":{"rendered":"Historically Yours Episode 4: A Poem from Helen Keller with Liz Riordan"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>The fourth\u00a0episode of Historically Yours is here and this time we’re joined by School of Library and Information graduate student Elizabeth Riordan.<\/p>\n

Liz reads a poem from Helen Keller from the Peggy LeBold Autograph Collection. Was this a letter? A school assignment? She follows up by reading a letter from Keller to St. Nicholas magazine describing her writing process.<\/p>\n

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Know anything more about this poem? Type in the comments, email us colleen-theisen@uiowa.edu<\/a>\u00a0or write to us:<\/p>\n

Colleen Theisen<\/p>\n

Special Collections<\/p>\n

100 Main Library<\/p>\n

Iowa City, IA 52242<\/p>\n

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Download this episode (right click and save)<\/a><\/h1>\n

Subscribe on iTunes<\/a><\/h2>\n

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Whate’er we love becomes of us a part,<\/p>\n

The center of all tributary powers,<\/p>\n

Our life is fed from<\/p>\n

nature’s throbbing heart<\/p>\n

and of her best<\/p>\n

the fibre and growth is ours.<\/p>\n

Helen Keller<\/p>\n

Cambridge<\/p>\n

April 29, 1902<\/p>\n

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This episode was made possible by the Conservation Lab here at the University of Iowa who took this shattered letter<\/a> and made it whole again.<\/p>\n

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Credits:<\/h3>\n

Host: Colleen Theisen<\/p>\n

Guest: Elizabeth Riordan<\/p>\n

Letter: Peggy LeBold Autograph Collection MsC1052 http:\/\/aspace.lib.uiowa.edu\/repositories\/2\/resources\/2685<\/a>\u00a0– Poem from Helen Keller<\/p>\n

Theme Music – “Handwritten Letters” by Will Riordan<\/p>\n

Editing: Farah Boules<\/p>\n

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