A modern campus building. UC Berkeley, housing biosciences.

Centennial year!!

"To Rescue for Human Society the Native Value of Rural Life".

What a motto, in one of the most densely populated urban areas of the States! (The structure opened as part of the Agriculture complex.) There are interesting stories connected with this old building on the Berkeley campus, if you care to read them. . . see related. The close-up of the doorway in the attached article gives the full glory of the detail. And the story of how this motto was chosen is likewise intriguing. 1917.

noehill.com/alameda/nat1982004647.asp

From Waymarking.com: "Many people forget that U.C. Berkeley was founded as a land grant college. Wellman Hall, Hilgard Hall, and Giannini Hall form part of the original agricultural "quad" of the campus."

me in my office in Giannini Hall at UC Berkeley, in 1999, the year i did most of my initial research at Point Reyes National Seashore -- and i'm still working on it (wrote several paragraphs for the last chapter of the book manuscript this morning) sixteen years later. but not for much longer, i hope!

posted for throwback thursday

The clocktower at UC Berkeley that towers over the landscape. I've never been up it. Apparently, on a clear day, it gives you an amazing 360 degree view of the San Francisco Bay Area. Sketched the week before classes begin. Bye, bye summer.

University of California at Berkeley

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UC Berkeley