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Roger Williams UniversityDOCS@RWUFeatured News Story The Week at Roger4-6-2018Roger Williams Letters on Display at RWU onMondayEdward FitzpatrickRoger Williams UniversityFollow this and additional works at: https://docs.rwu.edu/weekatroger_featured_newsPart of the Higher Education CommonsThis Article is brought to you for free and open access by the The Week at Roger at DOCS@RWU. It has been accepted for inclusion in Featured NewsStory by an authorized administrator of DOCS@RWU. For more information, please contact mwu@rwu.edu.Recommended CitationFitzpatrick, Edward, "Roger Williams Letters on Display at RWU on Monday" (2018). Featured News Story. 60.https://docs.rwu.edu/weekatroger_featured_news/605/16/2018 Roger Williams Letters on Display at RWU on Monday | Roger Williams Universityhttps://www.rwu.edu/news/news-archive/roger-williams-letters-display-rwu-monday 1/2 News ArchiveRoger Williams Letters on Display at RWU on MondaySeries of events includes lecture and workshops examining antiquated writing,practicing 17th-century writing with a quillA 17th-Century letter featuring Roger Williams'signature. Image Credit: Images provided by theRhode Island Historical SocietyApril 6, 2018 Edward FitzpatrickBRISTOL, R.I.  – Original letters written by Rhode Island founder Roger Williams will be on display at the Bristolcampus of Roger Williams University on Monday, April 9, as part of a “Reading Roger Williams Workshop.”“It is a unique opportunity for our students to see Roger’s handwriting and touch the paper he touched,” RWUAssistant Professor of History Charlotte Carrington-Farmer said. “Handling original documents written by ournamesake brings history to life in a way that transcribed copies simply can’t match. Having original Roger Williamsletters on the campus of Roger Williams University is something I’ve dreamed of since I started working at RWU in2012.”From 2 to 4 p.m. Monday, students may transcribe those original letters and take part in paleography (the study ofancient or antiquated writings) with Carrington-Farmer and Julie A. Fisher, author of “Ninigret, Sachem of the Nianticsand Narragansetts,” who is working as a consultant on an ethnographic study for the Roger Williams NationalMemorial. (Sign-up at ccarrington-farmer@rwu.edu to attend this session in the third  oor University Libraryclassroom.)From 4 to 5 p.m. Monday, students and members of the public may view original letters by Roger Williams and trytheir hand at 17th-century handwriting during a “Writing with a Quill” workshop with National Park Service RangerJohn McNi , who works at the Roger Williams National Memorial, in Providence. (No sign up in needed for thatsession, which is also in the third  oor University Library classroom.)From 5 to 6 p.m. Monday, students and members of the public can enjoy a lecture by Fisher titled “What is RogerWilliams?” (No need to sign up for the lecture, which is in RWU Marine and Natural Sciences Room 200.)The events are sponsored by the RWU Center for Scholarship, Assessment, Learning, Teaching and Technology andthe Department of History and American Studies. The Rhode Island Historical Society is kindly loaning the RogerWilliams letters for the event.5/16/2018 Roger Williams Letters on Display at RWU on Monday | Roger Williams Universityhttps://www.rwu.edu/news/news-archive/roger-williams-letters-display-rwu-monday 2/2ACADEMICS LIFE @ RWUShare This: REQUEST INFO VISIT CAMPUS APPLY MAKE A GIFTMap & DirectionsContact UsDirectoryNewsEventsAthleticsrwu.eduUndergraduate SiteGraduate SiteSchool of LawSchool of Continuing Studies    © 2018 Roger Williams University. All rights reserved.GMAIL AT RWU BRIDGES MY RWU IT HELP SITE POLICIES WORK AT RWUOne Old Ferry Road, Bristol, RI 028091-800-458-7144

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