Vermont College, Montpelier

I attended a state mathematics meeting at Vermont College in Montpelier on Wednesday. Here is some information on the history of the college, which is a National Historic Landmark, from a plaque in College Hall:

Historic Outline of Vermont College

1834	Newbury Seminary
1841	Newbury Theological Institute established (later became Boston University School of Theology)
1846	Springfield Wesleyan Seminary opened (dissolved in 1868 into seminary in Montpelier)
1849	Female collegiate institute added
1865	Renamed Vermont Conversence Seminary and Female College
1868	Montpelier campus opens
1870	Renamed Vermont Methodist Seminary and Female College
1888	Renamed Vermont Methodist Seminary
1894	Renamed Montpelier Seminary
1941	Vermont Junior College
1958	Vermont College
1972	Vermont College of Norwich University
2001	Vermont College of Union Institute & University

Tribute to Newbury Seminary by James Beebee, former Dean, Boston University School of Theology:
"Their's was the spirit of honest inquiry. The spirit of hospitality to new light and truth from any quarter, the spirit of understanding which sees all life is one and that every truth must live at peace with every other . . . a spirit that made a great school."

Vermont College Set

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Montpelier Public Library

Montpelier Public Library

My sister and I did our trip to Montpelier yesterday in the Nor'easter. The roads were fine, the city was as beautiful as ever. We hit two book stores and the bakery of the New England Culinary Institute, eat at the diner and have a wonderful time.

Downtown Montpelier

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Freedom and Unity

Photographed in the House Chambers, Vermont State House, Montpelier

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Vermont: Home of World's Oldest Communal Ocean Reef

This black floor tile from the Vermont State House is not black marble from Isle La Motte, Vermont. It is black limestone. It has fossils embedded in it. The floor of the State House is made of white and black squares. The white squares are white marble from elsewhere in Vermont. The quarry in Isle La Motte is now closed to stone cutting and is a science lab. Read this article from Smithsonian to learn how Vermont came to be the home of the world's oldest (and largest) communal ocean reef.

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