David Rikert ’67, Winter Carnival 1967 click on image for more info
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Lights out: snow surfing at Brodie Mountain
When that fancy French restaurant on Route 7 (Le Coq d’Or??) was winding down, one of its better known servers, a tall gentleman from Hawaii, would manage to liberate a few trays from their collection, and adding a few more from the Wood House collection, would collect the faithful and somebody’s car, and head down […]
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Remembering the College Ski Area (and a bike)
The College Ski Area—Coming and Going by Lloyd Thomas I was never more than an amateur skier at Williams. Nevertheless the College ski area holds a special place in my aging memory bank. As a freshman, I was asked to drive a panel van to the ski area. Wow! I considered myself a good and […]
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Bon Appétit!
Bon Appetit! Macrobiotic? Vegan? Gluten free? Forget it. The foodservice during our undergraduate days was basic, to say the least. In fact, even politically incorrect: pork often appeared on Fridays, just in time to offend two major religions. And what exactly was the composition of “mystery meat”? (Inquiring young minds always wanted to know.) However, […]
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Did We Attend College on the Mohawk Trail?
Either Williamstown is actually located on that part of Route 2 known as the Mohawk Trail, built for pioneering motorists in the early twentieth century, or it isn’t. On the resolution of this question hangs the bragging rights of us and all other Ephs to be sons/daughters of the Mohawk Trail, nor not. Did we […]
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Freshman Week 1964
We converged on campus in the Purple Valley traveling by plane, by train, and mostly by car. From points to the south, the Taconic Parkway north provided a pastoral ride with a hint of cooler fall weather and the color of leaves beginning to turn. We had definitely left the hot summer behind. For high […]
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The Man behind “The Village Beautiful”
By the time of our college years, Williamstown was already well-known in travel circles as “The “Village Beautiful”, a slogan the town had adopted. Who was the promotional genius responsible for it? The story begins with the Greylock hotel, the summer resort hotel on the corner of North and Main Streets, in the immediate area […]
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