The Dartmouth Story, A Narrative History Of The College Buildings, Peioke, and Legebds

The Dartmouth Bookstore, 1991

IN THIS CAMPUS guided tour, former College News Service Director Bob Graham intermingles buildings, personalities, architecture, biography, history, nostalgia, and, especially, anecdote. Where else would you learn that in 1770 Eleazar first journeyed 50 miles up the Connecticut beyond Hanover before retracing his steps? Or that Dartmouth Row would have been built over near the Zeta Psi house, had he found a suitable well there? Or that enough was left over from the loyal outpouring of funds to rebuild fire-leveled Dartmouth Hall in 1904 to build Webster and two dorms besides? Graham's passion for research is unrelenting, but he rarely breaks his story-telling rhythm as he traverses the last two centuries at the center of this glacial plateau that geologists call Lake Hitchcock.