Susan and I flew to Boston for her 35th Harvard reunion on 23 May 2012. This is the reunion part of the trip, 23-27 May.
First are some airplane shots of the trip. Then we arrived, as per the snapshot of me flaked out on the bed.
There follow some snapshots around Harvard, from the grand (Mem Hall) the the grungy (Lowell Hall Basement). Take particular note of the "Indian" in the mural - the artist was told that there were Indians in the war of independence so he included an Indian!
The Lowell House gang was thrilled to see Bill and Mary who had been the Masters of Lowell House when they were in school.
The bells. It's a long story. Somebody associated with Harvard was in Russia at the time of the revolution. A set of Russian bells that belonged to a monastery was about to be melted down. He somehow rescued them and they were installed in the Lowell House bell tower. Now that Russia is back to being Russia again, the monks asked for their bells back and Harvard returned them. The monks had another set cast and gave them to Harvard. There was a bell-ringing which we were priviledged to participate in. Susan and I and Rick, Susan, and Aldan Minard, friends of Susan's. The clapper in the big bell weighs 800 lbs...
The Civil War? Larry, who's into Civil War reenactments, conducted a Civil War tour of the campus which was quite moving. Of the ~3000 Harvard grads alive at the time, ~1600 of them volunteered to fight - ~250 of them for the South. Mem Hall is a memorial to those who died in Union service...