Visiting Yale While in CT

During my trip to Connecticut, we made a day of visiting the Yale campus. Narges teaches here and Brendan was an undergrad there. (Yes, they are brainiacs). The campus felt aged and as if the walls held secrets. It reminded me of being in Europe (Paris and London) and the campus and surrounding homes were art in themselves. It was perfect timing as that Saturday was the last game of the football season and the big Yale vs Harvard game.

Brendan dubbed it "bad, high school football". Harvard won the game much to the disappointment of myself and the home team fans. Maia refused to associate with the "blue team" because they lost and insisted on cheering the "red team". She's hilarious! No loyalty to her alumni parents!

Here are some pics of the campus. After the game each college hosted the alumni in their halls and we visited Brendan's Davenport hall.



The stone memorial translation: Epitaph- John Davenport: brought safely into port. In life, the ornament of New England and the Church. In death, the object of the sad regret of both.

And this is their amazing library. "The building, of Vermont marble and granite, bronze and glass, was designed by Gordon Bunshaft, of the firm of Skidmore, Owings and Merrill; the George A. Fuller Construction Company was the general contractor. Work began on the building in 1960 and was completed in 1963. The white, gray-veined marble panes of the exterior are one and one-quarter inches thick and are framed by shaped light gray Vermont Woodbury granite. These marble panels filter light so that rare materials can be displayed without damage. From the exterior, however, the building's powerful stone geometry serves to dominate the space it occupies in Hewitt University Quadrangle, amidst neo-Classical and neo-Gothic neighbors." (Quoted from the Library's homepage)

Women's Table (1990-93) Artist is Maya Lin. (Look her up.. she's pretty interesting).
Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut. Steve Fisher of Edward Larrabee Barnes and John M.Y. Lee, architect.  Granite water table honors the women of Yale with a spiral, engraved timeline that records the number of women in Yale programs from the founding of the University in the early 18th century through 1993.

There were so many great sculptures, buildings, grounds that merit talking about but I would just suggest you put it on your bucket list to visit one of the Ivy League schools on the east coast and their university towns!