Thursday, June 28, 2012

Library of Congress Acquires Sagan’s Personal Collection, Thanks to Seth MacFarlane

Library of Congress Acquires Sagan’s Personal Collection, Thanks to Seth MacFarlane

"According to an article in the Washington Post yesterday by Joel Achenbach — who also got a chance to browse through several of the boxes — MacFarlane provided an “undisclosed sum of money” to the Library to purchase the collection from Sagan’s widow Ann Druyan, who had kept the papers preserved in storage at their home in Ithaca, NY.

As briefly reported in a previous article here on Universe Today, MacFarlane has been working to bring Sagan’s Cosmos series back to television, with Neil deGrasse Tyson reprising Sagan’s role.Carl Sagan’s personal archive — a comprehensive collection of papers contained within 798 boxes — was delivered to the Library of Congress recently for sorting… thanks in no small part to ‘Family Guy’ creator Seth MacFarlane. (Yes, you read that right.)"

Huh.

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