Wednesday saw us touring Harvard. Neither Sharon or I had
ever been there and Ricki knows the place well. Before his death in 2003, her
husband Bill, with whom I was an undergraduate history major at Cal, Berkeley,
taught Civil War history there, and more recently Ricki has worked at the Widener library
finishing his last project.
As a result it was a bittersweet tour for us all, but we got
to see the school as Bill saw it and I got to pay homage to the man who more
than anyone else, pointed me toward the study of history.
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| Really nice image of Ricki and Sharon |
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| John Harvard, note shiny spot on his left foot |
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| The Widener Library |
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| Ricki and Sharon in the Widener |
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| A nice image of the new Renzo Piano addition to the Harvard Museums |
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| The Wertheim collection provides the basis for the permanent exhibition. This ain't the Met, but the man's curatorial eye was amazing. |
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| A Pelikan (above) and a pen box (below) |
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| Memorial Hall. Bill was asked, at one point, to help decide if the memorial to Harvard's Union war dead should expand to Confederates, it was a difficult issue. |
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| Harvard Square, long known to Car Talk fans |
Thursday took us from Lincoln, Mass to Nashua, New Hampshire and Barbara and Richard Binder.
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