Throughout May, the library is hosting Raven Rebus. Each Rebus is a collection of images, letters, and basic math concepts that represents the title of a book in our collection. To complete the challenge, a student must correctly guess the title, search for the call number in our library catalog, then find the physical book […]
As part of the information on the works of the faculty artist John Howard Benson, a small display of the art of calligraphy was set up. Benson was an American artist, calligrapher, sculptor, author and designer of incised letters. One of his many talents was specializing in hand lettering known as calligraphy. For this he was cited as a […]
In conjunction with the exhibit in the Portsmouth Abbey School McEvoy Gallery at the McGuire Fine Arts Center, a new library display has been created. John Howard Benson was a member of the Portsmouth Abbey School faculty during the 1950s. While here he included some of his woodcuts into the school publications and we have copies […]
In 1961, a team of engineers and designers at Ford Motor Company, led by Lee Iacocca, collaborated to create a sporty new car. Ford President Henry Ford II wasn’t convinced the new car would sell, but he gave the project the green light. The end result – the Mustang – became one of the most […]
In 1886, Karl Benz completed the Benz-Patent Motorwagen, the first automobile powered by an internal combustion engine. Two years later, a woman became the first person to take the motorwagen on a long-distance drive. Since then, women have made significant contributions to automotive design, engineering, and technology. Throughout April, the library is showcasing some of their contributions using […]
Throughout the spring term, the display case in the Burden Classroom Building entrance will feature student work from Mr. Mark Nadeau’s Photography class. “Our students portray our beautiful campus”. They was asked to shoot images around campus which define the school. They were to find the beauty in the architecture, the grounds, and the landscape of Portsmouth […]
The St. Thomas More library is fortunate to have the Norman R. Marcoux Book Fund for the purchase new math or World War II history books. The funds come from an endowment set up by his family when he died in 2013 after teaching math, especially geometry, for over 40 years. He served in the […]
Over a number of years, the school and monastery libraries have received a copy of the works of local Fall River Massachusetts author, John B. “Red” Cumming, Jr. Portsmouth Abbey class of 1963. The most recent, Just Angy: A Memoir (2020) is a biography of his mother, Angela (Angy) Patricia King Cummings in which he […]
What do J.K. Rowling, Stephen King, and William Golding have in common? Their famous books were initially rejected by publishers. Rowling’s work was eventually “saved” by an eight-year-old girl who found the first chapter of Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone on her father’s desk. Her father was a publisher who let her read the first […]