Sunday, September 13, 2009

trivia question

Forgive me. This is an answer to a question I posted on Twitter. (Oh you're not following our Twitter feed? Go to Twitter.com and search for "fvalumni." Or click here.) the question I posed there was: Can you name 5 locations for Arts & Crafts over the years?

Answer:

1. Bottom floor, new Wellness Center
2. Old maintenance shed near Biscuit Lodge
3. Hayden Lodge before it was "Hayden"
4. Bottom floor of old Girls dining hall, now Geyer - once Conover English Hall
5. old Rec Hall - what is now Margetts

The second floor of the laundry (the old bullpen) was for a number of years "the special arts & crafts shop." For a while that was where sewing was taught. All I remember about it was that it was unbelievably hot up there. Just a door on either end and barn-like summer heat. And people working sewing machines. Seemed like a sweatshop to me!

Isabel Banton Clowe has sent us the photo below - a view of the second floor of the laundry from below. It was August 1968.