{"id":5393,"date":"2022-03-18T16:17:01","date_gmt":"2022-03-18T21:17:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5393"},"modified":"2022-03-18T16:30:01","modified_gmt":"2022-03-18T21:30:01","slug":"updikes-90th-birthday-celebration-streamed-on-facebook-live","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/03\/18\/updikes-90th-birthday-celebration-streamed-on-facebook-live\/","title":{"rendered":"Updike’s 90th Birthday Celebration streamed on Facebook Live"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

John Updike<\/strong> was born 90 years ago on this date. To celebrate, John Updike Childhood Home Director of Education Maria Lester organized and hosted a reading featuring prominent Berks County residents. Watch the Facebook Live recording of the 90th Birthday Celebration<\/a> at The John Updike Childhood Home, 117 Philadelphia Ave., Shillington, Pa., featuring readings from Updike’s works, interviews, letters, and even personal love poems written as a 10 year old in Shillington.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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:01\u2014Introduction and reading by Maria Lester<\/strong>, Director of Education at The John Updike Childhood Home (pictured)<\/p>\n\n\n\n

4:54\u2014Samantha J. Wesner<\/strong>, Senior Vice President Student & Campus Life, Albright College<\/p>\n\n\n\n

17:18\u2014Conrad Vanino<\/strong>, Shillington Councilperson and Fire Police Lt. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

22:13\u2014Charles J. Adams III<\/strong>, Editor, The Historical Review of Berks County<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

35:48\u2014Bill McKay<\/strong>, Superintendent, Governor Mifflin School District<\/p>\n\n\n\n

44:55\u2014Melissa Adams<\/strong>, Executive Director, The Reading Public Library<\/p>\n\n\n\n

49:10\u2014Jackie Hirneisen Kendall<\/strong>, Updike’s classmate and first “crush”<\/p>\n\n\n\n

53:55\u2014Dave Silcox<\/strong>, Updike’s Berks County contact for 10 years<\/p>\n\n\n\n

57:40\u2014David W. Ruoff<\/strong>, former student and friend of Wesley Updike<\/p>\n\n\n\n

1:01:00\u2014Jack De Bellis<\/strong>, author of Updike’s Early Years<\/em>, The John Updike Encyclopedia<\/em>, and John Updike Remembered<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

John Updike was born 90 years ago on this date. To celebrate, John Updike Childhood Home Director of Education Maria Lester organized and hosted a reading featuring prominent Berks County residents. Watch the Facebook Live recording of the 90th Birthday … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":818,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20,24,19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5393","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-broadcasts","category-performances","category-the-john-updike-childhood-home"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/818"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5393"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5395,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5393\/revisions\/5395"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5393"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5393"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5393"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}