Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: Walk

A flower a day for February.

Mulliken; 4/17/2019.

Yesterday's snow along Potter Street in Mulliken.

Consumers Energy's changing the lights on Mulliken's Main Street. Two versions of the same photo....

Consumers Energy's changing the lights on Mulliken's Main Street. Two versions of the same photo....

A flower a day for February .

There's a historical marker in Jackson's Bucky Harris Park; it talks about the original settlement at what was then called Jacksonburg. The town's central square was apparently about where the park is. One of the buildings on the square was the Stone Post Office , which was built in 1839 as the Blackwell Building and originally housed a general store. It must have been quite imposing to find this structure as you crossed lower Michigan on 1839's primitive Territorial Road . Notice the remnants, here, of an earlier, less ambitious, mural project. I can't find anything about that project, though at least one of the artists is still active in the Jackson area. You might hope that someone will restore the building--it's currently a warehouse used by Casler Hardware, to which it's attached. The paintings could certainly stand some touchups, too.

Grand Ledge

The Student Center, reflected by the chapel.

Which is to say 37 Macalester Street. Now more commonly called Cultural House. Macalester owns many buildings around the perimeter of the campus, and several of those house folks with similar interests. A house full of Spanish speakers, for instance, or one where everyone's vegan. For my last college term the top floor at 37 Mac was French House. The folks who'd planned to live downstairs developed some issues shortly before the term started and couldn't fill the rooms. So the Office of Residential Life opened the floor to anyone. Since I was the guy in the housing office who was actually assigning rooms, I put myself in one of them.

The Dayton Campus Center on the left, Kirk Hall (a dorm) in the center, and the Dewitt Wallace Library beyond the students in the sunlight. Old Main is mostly hiding behind the trees. Dewitt Wallace grew up on this campus, then founded Readers Digest, which made him rich. Wallace money was crucial to the school's development in the fifties and sixties. We sixties and seventies students were painfully (yes, painfully) aware of that. My impression is that current students mostly think of Wallace as the guy whose name's on the library. Things change. James Wallace, Dewitt's father, was the college president for a decade or so, and a professor for several decades. One of the dorms is named after him. And the Janet Wallace Fine Arts Center is named for Dewitt's mother.

Over fifty years the Macalester campus has both changed and not-changed. I've already mentioned the rebuilt Fine Arts Center. The old Dayton Hall's gone; there's a new Dayton Hall elsewhere on the campus. Part of Old Main has gone; in its place is a library in a similar architectural style. The old Student Union's gone; in its place is a newer Campus Center. The old field house is gone, replaced by the Leonard Center. A grant from George and Wilma Leonard helped pay for my education. I'm hardly alone in that debt; many Mac grads were helped by Leonard scholarships.

Holt Senior Care, Holt, Michigan.

Saint Ignace. 168/365

I just spent a couple days at my alma mater , Macalester College in Saint Paul. I've known the campus for over fifty years; this photo could have been taken in any of those springs. 115/365