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Home to Delmarva history and culture, located in the Guerrieri Academic Commons at Salisbury University

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Join the Nabb Center on Tuesday, Sept. 29 at 6 pm in Conway Hall 153 for An Evening of Textiles.
The event features guest speaker Tessa Payer, assistant curator of textiles and historic dress at Colonial Williamsburg.
Learn more about the memories and meaning textiles hold and how they are used to commemorate events.
Nabb Curator Katie Prinkey will start the evening with a presentation on the current exhibit, with selected items out for close viewing. Then Tessa will present on 1876 Centennial quilts. The evening will conclude with a civic reflection led by PACE, looking back on how we celebrated US250.

The event is co-sponsored by PACE, Lower Shore 250, Fulton Public Humanities, and the History Department
Please register for a visitor parking pass through the SU parking portal. pink and black background with text, images of two people, and images of two quilts with geometric patterns. Text is reflected in post text. by @sunabbcenter

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Check out our new entranceway display that honors the history and founders of the Nabb Research Center with incredible portraits of Mrs. Sylvia Bradley and Dr. Ray Thompson! We wouldn’t be here without the vision these founders laid out in 1982 and all of the support we’ve received from community partners, donors, and researchers along the way. The brief narrative of our history tells the story of 40+ years serving SU and our community in connecting with Delmarva history and culture. Bradley’s portrait was painted by Ava Hudson (UMES ’26) and Thompson’s was painted by Jinchul Kim (SU Art Department). a white text panel with a portrait of Sylvia Bradley on the left and Ray Thompson on the right by @sunabbcenter

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The Nabb Center will be closed Monday, Sept. 7. We will reopen Tuesday. Our digital resources are still available on our website! white flowers with orange center with blue background.
Text reads: The Nabb Center will be closed Monday, Sept. 7. We will reopen Tuesday. Our digital resources are still available on our website! by @sunabbcenter

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Now open! Located on the fourth floor of the Guerrieri Academic Commons, the Nabb Center’s annual exhibit is now open. The exhibit takes a closer look at textiles in the Nabb Center collection. This exhibit explores quilts, clothes, and more across several decades, reading the items as text. By reading textiles as text, we can reconstruct communities of the past. What do these objects tell us about the people who made them or wore them? What stories do these textiles hold? by @sunabbcenter

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It's not often that we have a workshop come to us from across the bridge, but last week, our staff and student assistants spent the day in our own classroom, participating in an all-day workshop: Reference Isn't Dead. Led by members of the Maryland State Archives Reference Department, we learned from Rachel Frazier, Darby Nisbett Schini, and Morgan Miller Scarborough (pictured above) about strategies to best support our patrons through our reference services. We are incredibly grateful for the opportunity to work with our state partners to help streamline services and advocate for archival access! Thanks Rachel, Morgan, and Darby!
#NabbResearchCenter #MarylandStateArchives #ReferenceIsntDead Morgan Miller Scarborough standing in front of a projector screen with the presentation "Reference Isn't Dead" on the screen. by @sunabbcenter

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The Nabb Center will be closed Monday, August 17 for a staff event. We will reopen Tuesday, August 18 at 10 am. Closed sign at top
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The Nabb Center will be closed Friday, July 3rd and reopen Monday, July 6th. Blue background with white text "The Nabb Center will be closed Friday, July 3rd. We will reopen Monday, July 6th. Our digital sources are still available on our website!" by @sunabbcenter

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3 months ago

Yesterday we bid a fond "See you around" to our director, Dr. Creston Long. After 10 years of stewardship over the Nabb Center, Dr. Long is returning full time to the SU History department. We wish him the best of luck on this exciting change and can't wait to see him come in with his classes in the fall! Thank you, Creston!

We also welcome Ian Post, our Local History Archivist, as our interim director. We're excited to see where he leads us during this time of transition! Group photo of the Nabb Center staff outside. by @sunabbcenter

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The Nabb Center will close at 2 pm today for a staff event. We will reopen tomorrow at 10 am. Maroon background with white text: Close/The Nabb Center will close at 2 pm today for a staff event./We will reopen Tuesday at 10 am by @sunabbcenter

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The Nabb Center will be closed on Friday, June 19th in observance of Juneteenth. Check out our digital collections available through our website. Yellow background with green border. Text reads "The Nabb Center will be closed Friday, June 19th in observance of Juneteenth freedom day."
Image of two people each holding a Juneteenth flag by @sunabbcenter

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From the diaries of Mae Jones, June 7, 1926:
"Oh just think I am home for three months. I can hardly realize it. Yes of course it had to rain, but dad and mother came for me just the same. However we didn’t stay for commencement. I spent: Class dues 1.00 Trunk expressage 2.25 Total 3.25"

Thank you for joining us for this special centennial project! We hope you have enjoyed hearing about Mae's first year at Salisbury State Normal School through her own words. Although we may not be posting more of her entries, you can read the full transcription of Mae Jones' diary (SUA-046) on Internet Archive. We also have more voices from the past in our University Archives, feel free to stop by and explore! Front cover of the program for the First Annual Commencement for the Maryland State Normal School at Salisbury, dated Monday, June 7, 1926 at 6:30 PM. by @sunabbcenter

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