Yale Bulletin and Calendar

October 13, 2000

Volume 29, Number 6

Academy to host talk at Trinity College

The Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, a scholarly organization affiliated with Yale, is sponsoring a lecture by Edward W. Sloan, the Charles H. Northam Professor of History at Trinity College, on Tuesday, Oct. 17.

Titled "The Nightingale and the Steamship: Jenny Lind Comes to America," the talk will take place at 8 p.m. in Hamlin Hall at Trinity College, Hartford, and is free and open to the public. For more information, call (203) 432-3113, ext. 2.

With colleagues at Mystic Seaport's Munson Institute of Maritime Studies, Sloan wrote the recently published "America and the Sea," a comprehensive account of U.S. maritime and naval history.

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