Where to eat after drop-off?

milestones3
Tue, 13 Aug 2013 20:55:41 +0000

He will be doing Rangely II–or is it Rangley II? Must brush up on my Maine spellings! My late mother was a Bates grad, Class of '49. I have visited the campus only twice that I can recall: once when I was applying to colleges (but I wanted to go outside of NE, so I did!), and once on a college tour with my son early in 2012. I grew up in the Upper Connecticut Valley of Vermont & New Hampshire. My accent gets stronger when I’m “home” in NE, but all my relatives who still live there say I have a southern accent. I’m very glad my son’s preference was to go to college in New England–it’s part of his heritage and it makes me happy that he will experience this cultural difference.

I do have a question, emilybee. It’s off topic, but perhaps you could point me in the right direction for finding an answer. As a student, my mother sometimes served at parties at the home of Mrs. Clara LaPierre, who lived very close to campus in an old Victorian house. She may have been the widow of a faculty member. When I visited as a high school student I met her; she was an elderly lady then. I am wondering if there is anyone at the college–the official historian or archivist, perhaps–who might know which house was hers or where it stood if it’s no longer there. Perhaps the College acquired it? I’m just curious… I can ask when we get to campus, I’m sure.

Thanks–and see you soon, I guess!