Tuesday, September 11, 2007

the moment cabin 10 was moved

There has been a surprising amount of email coming in from you folks about the old pattern of cabins just to the east of the dining hall - what used to be Forest, cabins 6-10.

So I dug around in a pile of photos Chuck White sent me years ago and found a picture of the very moment when cabin 10 was hauled away.

In fact I believe this cabin was moved temporarily. Let me explain.

After fire took the old dining hall, and after the old Girls' Dining Hall was quickly enlarged and converted into our one full-year full-service eating facility (no small trick that was--in the middle of winter!), the next step was to clear the fire site, bulldoze around the space, and make ready for the construction of a new dining hall. It became clear that the spot where cabin 10 had long sat was in the way. And so it had to be moved. Eventually this cabin - or perhaps one of the others nearby - was put back maybe 50 feet further east from the dining hall, and there it sits today (curently used for staff housing). (Again, of the 5 old cabins in that circle, 2 remain.)