Showing posts with label College Towns. Show all posts
Showing posts with label College Towns. Show all posts

Friday, February 10, 2017

Photo of the Day: Fall, Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA



I took this photo in the fall of 2010, amid an overnight stay in a bed-and-breakfast in Blacksburg, VA. I only regret now that I didn’t have more time to spend in the area, or to see more of the major object of that brief visit, the lovely campus of Virginia Tech, seen here.

Wednesday, September 21, 2016

Quote of the Day (C. P. Snow, on a Pre-War Autumn in England’s Cambridge)


“There was the wistful smell of the Cambridge autumn, and in the tailors' shops gleamed the little handbills, blue letters on white with the names of the week's university teams.” —C. P. Snow, The Light and the Dark (1947