Favorite part of ISU campus
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Drove around Lake Laverne yesterday. Was weird seeing it completely drained. Can't wait to see it when it's done with the renovations.
Definitely central campus and the Campanile, just gorgeous. Particularly during summer school, back in the 80s there were so few people on campus then and in town both, I loved it. Tranquil.
We really need to get a grandpa emoji for all you old folks around here!
hope they don't go too crazy with the bridge and amphitheater. Even though it's right in the middle of everything there is a nice calmness there.
You can get a street view on Google Maps of the Sycamore. So are there other trees that I should check out? I need to see if the larch/tamaracks are still on campus. They are a deciduous "pine" which turn wonderful pinkish-orange in fall then drop their fine needles.
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I remember taking my Library 160 book, putting a LOC number on it, and filing it as a thesis at the end of one year.
Came back next year, it had been moved to the "correct" location (obviously, I retained minimal knowledge of the course).
The next year, somebody figured it out and it was gone.
That's funny, I went to Google Maps yesterday to do that very thing. Google Maps has street view for nearly all of the sidewalks on campus, too, but I think they're from 2015. I don't remember the tamaracks. In spring, the blooming redbuds, especially around Lake Laverne and in the open space between the library and old Alumni Hall, are gorgeous.
The one European Larch is still there sweeping and very prominent. Certainly you have seen it as it is the first lone tree west from Curtis on the north side of the walk to Beardshire from Curtis. It is virtually ground zero of the campus planted in 1928! The elm you mention south side of McKay seems long gone, I vaguely remember that area but not the exact tree. The tree map has been fun to peruse.
Years ago buddy and I went to Central Campus in the middle of the summer to throw around the disc. My buddy who is usually pretty accurate suddenly started throwing them a bit away from me toward a copse of trees. I had to sprint like crazy a few times and make jumping acrobatic catches. Afterward he told me that he saw a photographer in the trees and he wanted to give her some good shots so there are probably shots of a skinny version of me jumping around catching the frisbee in somebody's portfolio.
Of course, I was totally oblivious to the whole thing.
I got through about half of your paragraph and thought this was going in a different direction.
Don't remember that ...however, Iowa does have one Apollo 14 moon tree: a sycamore planted at the Iowa State Capitol Building in Des Moines on April 30, 1976.
