{"id":3318,"date":"2012-01-09T07:41:13","date_gmt":"2012-01-09T14:41:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/?p=3318"},"modified":"2012-01-09T07:41:13","modified_gmt":"2012-01-09T14:41:13","slug":"gertrude-stein-gives-talk-before-century-club","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/2012\/01\/09\/gertrude-stein-gives-talk-before-century-club\/","title":{"rendered":"Gertrude Stein Gives Talk Before Century Club"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: center;\">\n<div id=\"attachment_3319\" style=\"width: 195px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/i015sten.jpg\"><img aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-3319\" decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-3319 \" title=\"Gertrude Stein, Alice B Tolkas and her dog Basket\" src=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/i015sten-264x300.jpg\" alt=\"Gertrude Stein, Alice B Tolkas and her dog Basket\" width=\"185\" height=\"210\" srcset=\"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/i015sten-264x300.jpg 264w, http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/i015sten.jpg 401w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 185px) 100vw, 185px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-3319\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Gertrude Stein, Alice B Tolkas and her dog Basket<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>08 January 1935<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>On this day Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Tolkas made   the front page of <em>The Springfield Republican<\/em>.   Stein had returned from her home in Paris to the United States after 31 years absence for a whirlwind lecture tour of many states.   While Stein and Tolkas did not visit Holyoke, in western Massachusetts (that I am aware of) she did have speaking engagements at Mt. Holyoke College, Smith College, Amherst College and two locations in Springfield, including the Century Club.   Her presence received considerable attention and there are numerous articles about her lectures.<\/p>\n<p>The Century Club in Springfield, <a href=\"http:\/\/centuryclubma.org\/index.htm\" target=\"_blank\">still in existence today<\/a> (interesting social club and well worth a click), hosted Stein who lectured on the topic of &#8220;<em>The Gradual Making of the Making of Americans<\/em>.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>From <em>The Springfield Republican<\/em>, image public domain.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>08 January 1935 On this day Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Tolkas made the front page of The Springfield Republican. Stein had returned from her home in Paris to the United States after 31 years absence for a whirlwind lecture tour of many states. While Stein and Tolkas did not visit Holyoke, in western Massachusetts [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[297,463],"tags":[519],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3318"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3321,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3318\/revisions\/3321"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3318"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3318"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/holyokemass.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3318"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}