Joel Dinda's photos with the keyword: macalester college

Posting this photo because I read Jonathan Franzen's Freedom last week. One of Franzen's scenes takes place in "a senior dorm" at Mac; had the author done just a bit more homework, he'd likely have mentioned Kirk. Well, Kirk was a senior dorm when I was a senior, anyway. In 1982. In 1967, when I was a freshman (long story, not today), Dupre & Doty were new and all the seniors wanted to live there. So I lived in Kirk, in a single. Life was different in the old days. Didn't much like the book, for whatever that's worth.

Macalester College, Saint Paul, Minnesota. If there's a standard Macalester photo, this is it. I once took a class in this building where I (temporarily) learned what to call all those architectural features. I've mostly forgot them, but I'm safe in describing the style as Richardsonian Romanesque. Ernie Sandeen taught that Architectural History class. Jim Stewart , who also taught in Old Main, just called it "That Victorian Pile," which works just fine.

Me, when I was younger and still thin, balancing on my bike in front of the old Student Union at Macalester College. The jersey advertises Cycle City, sponsor of the Kalamazoo Bicycle Club's racing team. Photo by Tim Haviland in the summer of 1981. (This is the bike I just restored .)