Harold B. Lee Library

Archive for June, 2011

• The Candy Bomber
  Posted June 30, 2011 by frazierj

  Colonel Gail S. Halverson of the USAF was responsible for the invention and addition of “Operation Little Vittles” to the larger American “Operation Vittles” and eventual expansion to the entire Berlin Airlift in post-WWII Germany. “Operation Little Vittles” dropped candy to the children of West Berlin. It was difficult for the children to distinguish his [...]

• “Unholy War”
  Posted June 15, 2011 by frazierj

  “This is one of the dark days of our generation. All will yet be well, be of good cheer my dear sister.” -Philemon Burgess Hunt, 1863. The Hunt Family Letters consist of correspondence sent from the 1850s to the 1920s. The letters sent during the time of the Civil War are mainly addressed to Mary [...]

• The Pink and Lily
  Posted June 3, 2011 by frazierj

  The artist Hanslip Fletcher and his family frequented the inn and pub called the Pink and Lily, but Rupert Brooke made it famous. This little inn is located in the village of Lacey Green in the Chiltern Hills of southeast England. Rupert Brooke commemorates his time in Lacey Green and the hills with the poem [...]