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Guerrieri Academic Commons, Niemann Gallery
Open During GAC Hours

This self-guided exhibit highlights various aspects of Delmarva history, including Native Americans and early settlers, agriculture and water, military contributions, and an early 19^th century home.

Guerrieri Academic Commons, Thompson Gallery
January 27– July 15  

• Mon. 10a.m.-6pm
• Tues.-Fri. 10a.m.-4:30p.m.
• Sat. 10a.m.-2p.m.

Throughout the twentieth century, in the ballparks and backyards of small towns on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia, the most popular summer activity was attending or playing baseball. This exhibition looks at the history and heritage of baseball on the Delmarva Peninsula and the role it played in the local communities that embraced the national pastime.

Friends & Rivals is part of a larger initiative supported by an NEH Common Heritage grant to create a digital archive of Eastern Shore baseball and provide a series of programs exploring the importance of baseball in Delmarva communities.

Reception: Wednesday, February 5, 5:30 p.m. Nabb Research Center lobby 4^th floor

Guerrieri Academic Commons, 1^st Floor Lobby
January 27  – July 15  
Open During GAC Hours

In small towns throughout the Delmarva Peninsula, teams like the Crisfield Crabbers, Snow Hill Tigers, Slaughter Neck Giants, and Delmar Railroaders played baseball to enthusiastic crowds. As part of an NEH Common Heritage grant the Nabb Research Center is creating a digital archive chronicling Eastern Shore baseball. Presented is a sampling of images that take viewers on a photographic journey through 100 years of baseball on the Eastern Shore, from the 1876 Salisbury White Clouds to the 1976 Salisbury State College team.

Throughout the twentieth century, in the ballparks and backyards of small towns on the Eastern Shore of Maryland, Delaware, and Virginia, the most popular summer activity was attending or playing baseball. This exhibition looks at the history and heritage of baseball on the Delmarva Peninsula and the role it played in the local communities that embraced the national pastime.

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Not Just a Pretty Face is an online exhibit curated by Emma Griebner as the culmination of her museum internship at the Nabb Research Center. The exhibit concept was inspired by vintage beauty advertisements and magazines in the Nabb collections and an interest in finding out more about the role women played in the beauty industry.

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The libraries at Salisbury University have traversed a long and storied road from the first College Library to the new Academic Commons. What began in cramped quarters in 1925 expanded into its own building — Blackwell Library — which, despite major renovations to meet student needs in 1975, has since been outgrown. Now the library has its new home within the Guerrieri Academic Commons. Yet, the libraries at Salisbury University continue to be, in the words of Germaine Greer, "Reservoirs of Strength, Grace, and Wit."

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Leland Starnes came to Salisbury State College in 1972 with impressive credentials and the intention of bringing one big production to the stage each year. Starnes established the Salisbury State Theatre, which he viewed as a "repertory company in a professional environment." He was passionate about theatre and devoted himself to the Salisbury program, stating, "We're determined that the new Salisbury State Theatre will be for everyone a place of rich vitality and joy. Significant theatre – if it is indeed significant – must be an event that its audiences attend with a sense of pleasurable anticipation and excitement rather than from any heavy awareness of duty or 'cultural enrichment'; truly fine theatre, we all know, arouses, within its viewers of every level, the excited curiosity to see even the direct truth carried out to its logical culmination because of its very theatricality. This is the wild and free kind of theatre that we're going to try like hell to bring to Salisbury State in our new season."

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