Vacation 2012

10 July - 9 August
a tour of places in eastern USA

the R-pod travel trailer - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - a map of our travels (click on map for larger version)

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~ Harvard University ~

Cambridge, Massachusetts

Joseph registered online for an official visit to Harvard for Friday morning.
Given that we navigated the MTBA the previous day we had confidence that we could find our way for a morning session.

I do not know where the Main Gate is for Harvard. This is the entrance we found.
Below is some detail at this entrance.

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Fans and window airconditioning units in windows. Must be an old building.

Across one open area (Harvard yard) we exited through this gate toward a modern Harvard building
which contains one of the Campus libraries, perhaps the Cabot Science Library.
There was major construction going on just through the gate. Big fans moved air which
smelled strongly of plastic or epoxy hardening.
There were prominent signs at the entrance to the building prohibiting photography.
Also except for very public areas, one could not enter unless one had an active ID card.
There was a fully fledged Post Office in the basement of the building which housed the Cabot Science Library.

Memorial Hall - Where the orientation lecture took place.
It was built as a memorial to Harvard students and alummnae who died fighting on the Union side in the U.S. Civil War.
The body of it was completed and dedicated in 1874. The tower was completed in 1877.

South face of the western part of Memorial Hall.

The North-South hallway in Memorial Hall

Sanders Theatre in the eastern part of Memorial Hall.

North side of the western part of Memorial Hall

Doorway seen on South side of Memorial Hall - fancy brickwork

The Cambridge Fire Dept. Headquarters is located across Cambridge St. from Memorial Hall.

Widener Library
Commencement exercises take place in the green space in front of this library.

Some of the student housing

Gate going out to the east-west part of Massachusetts Ave.
The core of the campus is north of this part of Massachusetts Avenue,
though great parts extend south of this avenue.

Looking east on Massachusetts Avenue

One inexpensive way to get around.

Joseph found the Yenching Chinese restaurant and decided it was a good place to have lunch.
Good decision. The owner was the embodyment of the Happy Buddah. He was gracious, efficient,
and knew his regulars. The food was plentiful and delicious.

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After lunch we decided to walk from the Harvard area to MIT and visit the MIT Museum.
Enroute we followed Massachusetts Avenue and traversed some interesting parts of Cambridge.
It was a walk of perhaps a mile and a half,
fatiguing walking on hard pavement, as we had been walking on hard surfaces all day.

Cambridge, MA - - City Hall

God has given commandments unto men . From these
commandments men have framed laws by which to be
governed . It is honorable and praisworthy to serve the
people by administrating these laws faithfully . If the laws
are not enforced the people are not well governed.
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A fire station

our immediate destination - the MIT Museum
Unfortunately photography is not allowed inside.
It is comprised of very interesting displays of technology,
some older, and some more recent. Some playful, others more serious.
One exhibit details the history of the sliderule...
what we used before electronic calculators and electronic computers.

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After spending time thoroughly examining exhibits, we walked through the MIT campus
and found our way onto the MTBA to return to Quincy, and drive from the parking garage there back to camp in Middleboro MA.

On the way from the MIT Museum to the campus we passed this building.
One wonders... is the distressed brickwork a fashion statement... or is it to be fixed?

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Our campsite - at the KOA in Middleboro, Massachusetts

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