Today marks the return of a Brown “thing” to the Brown campus.  In her article, “Brown University Celebrates the Return of Rush Hawkins’ Sword“, Courtney Coelho writes that the Brown Library will welcome back a Civil War-era silver sword that belonged to Rush Hawkins.  The sword was stolen in 1977.

http://blogs.brown.edu/libnews/brown-university-celebrates-the-return-of-rush-hawkins-sword

Related Links:

• Coming home: Rush Hawkins’ sword
• Civil War General Hawkins’ sword to return to Annmary Brown Memorial
• Brown University to celebrate return of Civil War sword

See archived version of Coelho’s article:

Brown University Celebrates the Return of Rush Hawkins’ Sword _ Brown University Library News (pdf)