MSU President Mark E. Keenum, left, presents a cowbell to John Robinson Block, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade.
MSU President Mark E. Keenum, left, presents a cowbell to John Robinson Block, publisher and editor-in-chief of the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette and Toledo Blade. Block visited campus for a ceremony during which MaxxSouth Broadband donated a collection of rare, early Mississippi law books to MSU Librariesâ Special Collections Department. The Blade and Post-Gazette, like MaxxSouth, are subsidiaries of Block Communications. The collection comprises 60 publications that are finely bound in 45 volumesâmaking it the largest known number of rare Mississippi Territorial imprints published prior to 1817. Mississippi State Libraries officially welcomed the collection with a program and reception.
