{"id":5795,"date":"2022-12-28T13:14:40","date_gmt":"2022-12-28T19:14:40","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/?p=5795"},"modified":"2022-12-28T13:14:41","modified_gmt":"2022-12-28T19:14:41","slug":"ipswich-historical-commission-approves-updike-plaque","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.iwu.edu\/johnupdikesociety\/2022\/12\/28\/ipswich-historical-commission-approves-updike-plaque\/","title":{"rendered":"Ipswich Historical Commission approves Updike plaque"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Stewart Lytle<\/strong>, reporting for The Town Common<\/em>, writes that the Ipswich Historical Commission “is preparing to erect a plaque to honor the prolific author on the door of the Caldwell Building, which houses the Choate Bridge Pub. The owner, the John T. & Priscilla Coughlin Trust, has agreed to installing the plaque.” Pictured are Updike Society members visiting the location during the 2nd Biennial John Updike Society Conference in Boston. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

While living in Ipswich, Updike was a member of the Ipswich Historical Commission and even helped write a book on Ipswich for the commission, Something to Preserv<\/em>e: A Report on Historic Preservation in America’s best-preserved Puritan town, Ipswich, Massachusetts<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n

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Couples<\/em> landed Updike on the cover of Time<\/em> magazine<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n

“The exact position of the plaque\u2014above or beside the door\u2014has not been decided. Nor has the inscription been written by commission vice chair Rachel Meyer. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

“The building is already on the National Registry, but most passersby know nothing of Updike renting an office” on the building’s second floor, where he wrote Couples<\/em>, Rabbit Redux<\/em>, and other novels and short stories.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here’s a PDF of the entire Town Common<\/em> story<\/a>. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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