Author: Anna Juliar

Kislak Center for Special Collections, Rare Books and Manuscripts

Fiddle Music, Fishing and Dreaming of Michigan

Anna Juliar

Sep 14, 2022

As a new project processing archivist at Penn Libraries, I had the distinct pleasure of beginning my term at Kislak by processing the H. Owen Reed papers (1920-2016), gifted to Penn by his grandson. Herbert Owen Reed (1910-2014) was an American composer, musician, music educator and author. Born in Odessa, Missouri to musical parents (his…
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Author: Anna Juliar

Fiddle Music, Fishing and Dreaming of Michigan