{"id":1351,"date":"2010-12-29T08:00:05","date_gmt":"2010-12-29T12:00:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/doddcenter.wordpress.com\/?p=1351"},"modified":"2010-12-29T08:00:05","modified_gmt":"2010-12-29T12:00:05","slug":"how-to-build-a-stone-wall","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs-dev.lib.uconn.edu\/archives\/2010\/12\/29\/how-to-build-a-stone-wall\/","title":{"rendered":"“How to build a stone wall”"},"content":{"rendered":"

Sometime in December 1971, Homer Babbidge, President of the University of Connecticut, spoke to the Monday Evening Club on the subject of stone walls, Robert Frost and the meaning of “Good fences make good neighbors.”\u00a0\u00a0One of the more charismatic individuals associated with the University, Dr. Babbidge used the imagery of practical New England tidiness and\u00a0poetry to illuminate\u00a0broad interpretations of international borders, hint at the intellectual foundations \u00a0of education and extoll the virtues of physical labor–in nine and a half short pages!<\/p>\n

This talk, and many other speeches,\u00a0presentations, reports and studies, is available in the Babbidge papers in the University Archives housed in the Dodd Research Center.<\/p>\n

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"How to build a stone wall," Homer D. Babbidge, Jr., December 1971<\/p><\/div>\n

\u00a0A PDF version of the complete talk is available here<\/a>\u00a0and a partial description of the materials to be found in the Babbidge papers can be accessed via the finding aid for the collection (http:\/\/doddcenter.uconn.edu\/findaids\/President\/MSS19690004.html<\/a>).\u00a0<\/p>\n

A more recent, artistic interpretation of the classic New England stone wall can be found in professor Olu Oguibe’s recent installation<\/a> at Real Art Ways in Hartford (scheduled through March 2011).<\/p>\n

Connections between past and present are frequently discovered in the archives.\u00a0 Please consider this an open\u00a0invitation to come in and find out more about the history of UConn in the University Archives in the New Year!<\/p>\n

\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Betsy Pittman, University Archivist<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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