Sunday, 3 June 2012

Yale of a Time

Buildings,  like a person, are moulded together piece by piece, starting off with a solid foundation, gathering stories and moss, experience and courage, meaning and profound significance. Like people, they are tarnished through the years through bad weather and heartbreak, victimisation and destruction, old age and defacement. The beauty falls in every wrinkle every crack, every scar and every discoloured brick. Taking a tour of the Yale University was greatly informative and interesting. The history of Yale, New Haven, and Connecticut itself, is overflowing with the Civil War and the American Revolution. Founded in 1701 as a College, awaiting donations for a potential name, in which the first to be was Jeremiah Dummer, " Dummer University" called for ambiguous arguments and so the second donation by Elihu Yale, was the chosen one. Anecdotes like the Oak trees in the New Haven green, with removal of Headstones and not the remains, humour tourists and students alike with regards to the growing Oak trees. The Frisbee was invented in the New Haven Greens as hundreds of years ago, students ate pies from Mrs Frisbees Pies, using the pie trays, folding them flat, and throwing them amongst each other was where the invention of the Frisbee was born. Living in a modern, fast paced technological world, one finds peace knowing that the simple things still remain in the walls of places like that of the Yale University grounds. Appreciated beauty was on the cards for today.

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