Correction to confusion regarding Harvard University from
the last blog - somehow I got these two bits of information mixed up in my head: (1) Harvard University was
established in 1636 as a college but was not called Harvard until 1638. John Harvard had donated a large amount of
money so they put his name on the school.
(2) Mrs. Widener gave 2 million dollars in 1912 for a library. She gave it in memory of her son Harry Elkins Widener who was obsessed with books and died on the Titanic along with many volumes of very valuable books that he had purchased all over Europe. She had four conditions to her donation: (1) they must maintain a room for Harry’s spirit to visit the library and that room was to have a fresh flower in a vase every day, (2) they can never touch the outside of the building to make changes, (3) each student graduating from Harvard must prove that he (there were only male students at that time) can swim, and finally (4) if any of these conditions are not met everything within the walls of the library will be given to the City of Cambridge. That library is today the undergraduate library which is second in size only to the Library of Congress. Because they could not change the outside appearance they went down seven stories to make room for the approximately 3 million volumes.
(2) Mrs. Widener gave 2 million dollars in 1912 for a library. She gave it in memory of her son Harry Elkins Widener who was obsessed with books and died on the Titanic along with many volumes of very valuable books that he had purchased all over Europe. She had four conditions to her donation: (1) they must maintain a room for Harry’s spirit to visit the library and that room was to have a fresh flower in a vase every day, (2) they can never touch the outside of the building to make changes, (3) each student graduating from Harvard must prove that he (there were only male students at that time) can swim, and finally (4) if any of these conditions are not met everything within the walls of the library will be given to the City of Cambridge. That library is today the undergraduate library which is second in size only to the Library of Congress. Because they could not change the outside appearance they went down seven stories to make room for the approximately 3 million volumes.
We drove from Boston through New Hampshire. New Hampshire has a population of 1.3 million
people and the capital is Concord. We
stopped at Pickity Place which was used as a model for illustrations in the Golden
Book version of Little Red Riding Hood, written by Elizabeth Orton Jones in
1948.
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| Grandma's bedroom with the Big Bad Wolf in the bed. |
We stopped for the evening in Laconia, NH at the NASWA (which came from NAturalSpringWAter) Resort on the shores of Lake Winnipesaukee. “On Golden Pond” was filmed there and, although “What About Bob” was not filmed there, Lake Winnipesaukee was the location to which they referred in the movie.
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| View from our deck in NASWA |
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| And here we have the classic covered bridge - of which there are only 96 working bridges left. |
Dartmouth College
is located in Hanover, New Hampshire.
It was founded in 1769 and is the smallest college in the Ivy League.
Vermont has a population of 625 thousand people. The capital is Montpelier. The town in which we spent the night, Quechee has a population of 656 people. Here is an example of the beautiful fall colors in the Green Mountains of Vermont.
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