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With four guide ropes attached to it, the east-side clock face is raised into position. While it didn't seem that windy on the ground on Saturday, Jan. 28, winds higher up were strong, requiring extra guidance to bring the clock face safely to the Old Main bell tower.

Old Main clock faces installed

Ben White of New Vibrations Audio and Video works on a ledge of the Old Main bell tower, to remove the speakers from the old chime system. The company installed a new carillon system today (Jan. 27) that will play a digital recording made of the original Old Main bell that now sits adjacent to Old Main and other bells of comparable sizes.

New carillon, restored clocks being installed

The funeral procession for Joe Paterno made its way past Beaver Stadium and down Porter Road as crowds applauded on Jan. 25. Thousands lined the procession route through the University Park campus and downtown State College to bid a last farewell to Joe Paterno.

Joe Paterno's funeral procession

Coach Joe Paterno was on the field for the first half of the Nittany Lions' football game. Penn State beat the Iowa Hawkeyes 13-3 on Oct. 8, 2011, in front of an enthusiastic crowd at Beaver Stadium.

Joe Paterno through the years

Katie Knobloch and Andrew Adamietz, members of the a capella group Blue in the Face, shared a candle at the vigil held Sunday, Jan. 22, to mourn the death of Penn State football coach Joe Paterno, who passed away earlier in the day. Several thousand members of the Penn State and State College community came out to the Old Main lawn on Penn State's University Park campus for the vigil.

Thousands mourn Paterno's passing

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Thursday, February 5, 2009
Anthony kaye
Credit: Richards Civil War Era Center Anthony kaye

University Park, Pa. -- Anthony Kaye, assistant professor of history at Penn State, has been awarded a 2009 fellowship of approximately $50,000 from the National Endowment for the Humanities to write a book on Nat Turner's rebellion of 1831.

A faculty member in the College of the Liberal Arts, he also is affiliated with the George and Ann Richards Civil War Era Center. Kaye's book will reinterpret Turner's famous revolt from the standpoint of neighborhoods. "Nat Turner's Confessions" is one of the most widely read documents in the history of slavery, yet historians have missed its neighborhood motif. Turner's stature as a prophet was wrought in delicate negotiation with his neighborhood. The revolt proceeded swiftly as long it remained in Turner's neighborhood but came apart when he and his comrades left there. When he decided to regroup to march again, he repaired to his neighborhood.

The book, tentatively titled "Alarm in the Neighborhood," will use the Turner insurrection to introduce neighborhoods as a new perspective on slavery to a general audience. The publisher will be Hill & Wang.

The Penn State historian's recent book, "Joining Places: Slave Neighborhoods in the Old South," described slave neighborhoods at length in Mississippi, where the neighborhood terrain comprised adjoining places, and sketched neighborhoods across the South. His work was the first book to use a vast source of rich testimony about slavery, the pension files of former soldiers in the Union army, and reformulated ideas about slave marriage, resistance and the slave community.

The book was a finalist for the 2008 Frederick Douglass Book Prize, given by Yale University's Gilder Lehrman Center for the Study of Slavery, Resistance, and Abolition.

NEH is an independent federal grant-making agency dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, and public programs in the humanities. For more information, visit http://www.neh.gov online.

 

 

 

 

 

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