BROKEN ARROW — The Special Libraries Association recently named Northeastern State University instructor Tom Rink as the recipient of its 2023 John Cotton Dana Award.
During the interwar years, “folk art fever” swept the Northeastern United States.1 Early transmitters included Robert Laurent, Charles Sheeler and other artists who contracted the fever in rural outposts like Ogunquit, Maine or the Pennsylvania German enclave of Bucks County and brought it back to New York City, where the Whitney Studio Club put objects from their collections on display in 1924.
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John Cotton Dana, 1856 - 1929, founded the Newark Library (pictured) in 1902. NJ Advance Media for NJ.com
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Historically speaking, did you know that:
Curtis-Wright Corporation: Based in Lyndhurst, the Curtis -Wright Corporation was founded by the merger of the nations foremost aeronautical companies.
Czechs: The first Czechs settled in New Jersey in 1805 but it wasn’t until the late 19th century that they began to emigrate to the state in larger numbers.
Dams: New Jersey counts 1,600 dams under the direction of the State Environmental Protection Department.
John Cotton Dana: After graduating from Dartmouth College, John Cotton Dana, 1856 - 1929, went west and founded the Denver Public Library in 1889. In 1902, he founded the Newark Library and also founded the Newark Museum in 1909.