Heading out for our first round of visits

maineparent
Fri, 26 Mar 2010 18:46:50 +0000

We did an April break 4.5 day blitz a couple of years ago… Maine to Virginia and back…
we saw Penn, James Madison, Univ of Virginia, Univ of Richmond, Connecticut College and Brown… and I saw my child grow up before my very eyes… luckily we had a great random meeting with a coach at Penn… and the same at Richmond… and the difference in my kid’s questions and comfort with talking with a coach by the time we got to Brown was huge… in fact, my back was on strike by the time we got to Brown so it was all done solo… I spent the time there in the library looking at the world class miniature soldiers collection…

I tried to visit each and every library!! Williams has one of each of the USA founding documents… Yale’s Beinecke has original Audubon folios… Cambridge in England has Newton’s math book…and Christopher Wren’s sketch books… also journals from Beatrix Potter… Bowdoin’s has items from Joshua Chamberlain’s and Harriet Beecher Stowe’s own libraries… those are some of my favorite memories…