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      University Libraries hosts Hemingway pop-up exhibit June 16

      Optional tour of Pattee Library and Paterno Library available with alumni registration for We Are Weekend events

      At 10 years old, Ernest Hemingway wrote this untitled story, believed to be his earliest-known surviving work of fiction. This booklet is among the items in the Toby and Betty Bruce Collection of Ernest Hemingway in Penn State University Libraries’ Eberly Family Special Collections Library. Credit: Penn State University Libraries / Penn State. Creative Commons

      UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. — Penn State University Libraries will hold a pop-up exhibit displaying several Ernest Hemingway artifacts from the Toby and Betty Bruce Collection of Ernest Hemingway from noon to 4 p.m. Friday, June 16, in the Eberly Family Special Collections Library’s Exhibition Room, 104 Paterno Library, on Penn State’s University Park campus. The pop-up exhibit is free and open to the public.

      In addition, a limited number of seats remain for individuals who register for the Penn State Alumni Association’s We Are Weekend to attend a short program about the Toby and Betty Bruce Collection followed by a tour Pattee Library and Paterno Library. Registration and additional details are available online.

      The University Libraries’ acquisition of the Bruce Collection, which places Penn State in the top tier of repositories of Ernest Hemingway scholarly materials, includes handwritten notes and letters, private family photographs, and Hemingway’s first story written in childhood.

      The pop-up exhibit follows a March 2023 Library Discovery Hour virtual event presented by University Libraries employees, titled “From Key West to Penn State – the Journey of the Toby and Betty Bruce collection of Ernest Hemingway,” which is available for streaming online.

      Last Updated June 13, 2023

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