Global Rediscovery A lengthy story on Lois Brown’s rediscovery of the first biography written by an African American (Susan Paul) appeared in the September 17 edition of the Boston Sunday Globe. Through the efforts of Brown, assistant professor of English at MHC, the story of James Jackson Jr., a nineteenth-century free black child living in Boston, was reissued by Harvard University Press in February. Titled The Memoir of James Jackson, the Attentive and Obedient Scholar, Who Died in Boston, October 31, 1833, Aged Six Years and Eleven Months, the new edition was edited by Brown, who also wrote its introduction. Read the Globe piece online.

Times Takes Notice A half-page illustrated spread on mixed-media artist Jane Robin de Jonge’s ’52 work appeared in the September 17 Connecticut edition of the New York Times. De Jonge will be the guest speaker at the February 19 luncheon meeting of the Mount Holyoke College Club of Southwest Florida.