New Concord
About all I knew about New Concord was that it was home to John and Annie Glenn and to Muskingum College where Jim Burson coached basketball. Oops, I mean Muskingum University. So many colleges are now becoming universities.
Sunday of our weekend I arrived in New Concord ahead of the group because I had to get back to Columbus for an afternoon art show.
I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw. First I stopped at the “S” bridge. This was a short brick bridge over Crooked Creek. It curved into the shape of an “S.” It’s an old structure sitting alongside one of the mile markers for the famed National Road.
This was a turnaround and I retraced steps for a few blocks and started wending my way through the neighborhood over to the college campus. I met a few people out on a Sunday morning, mainly walking the dog. Of course, I speak to the dog first.
I was amazed at the campus. If I had only been doing the college campus program. But I finished that a while back – walked 20 college campuses and earned my Ph.D. in walking. As I started walking what they call The Quad, I asked a couple of women outside a building what the names of some buildings were so I could match them to my direction and find where I was. I discovered I was making a complete circle of the buildings – or going in circles as I told the women and we got a chuckle out of that.
Down the steps, cross the footbridge over the lake and along the football field. What a glorious view. It was a nice fall day. Colorful leaves on a few trees. Going up the hill I passed a residence hall that looked like it was built in the late ‘50s and resembled the one I lived in when I was in college at Kent State.
Today’s style came into sight as I crossed a concrete footbridge. And beside that building sat an older one of outstanding architecture. That’s one thing I like about a college campus – the old and the new almost side by side.
The route took us past the high school named for John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth. And back through a wooded area to campus. Alongside campus we went into a residential neighborhood of new homes. One house had a sloping yard and to prevent erosion, the owners had ‘landscaped’ it with art work. Gee, what you see while walking.
Coming out of campus onto the National Road (again) I saw old and newer again side by side – a log cabin business sitting alongside a Victorian style. What a neat walk! I want to go back.
Maybe I will. The National Road program continues through 2012. There are walks in seven cities in Ohio and West Virginia. I have walked six of them. I still have Fairborn to do. Looks like that will come up the end of January. Won’t you join me?
About all I knew about New Concord was that it was home to John and Annie Glenn and to Muskingum College where Jim Burson coached basketball. Oops, I mean Muskingum University. So many colleges are now becoming universities.
Sunday of our weekend I arrived in New Concord ahead of the group because I had to get back to Columbus for an afternoon art show.
I was pleasantly surprised by what I saw. First I stopped at the “S” bridge. This was a short brick bridge over Crooked Creek. It curved into the shape of an “S.” It’s an old structure sitting alongside one of the mile markers for the famed National Road.
This was a turnaround and I retraced steps for a few blocks and started wending my way through the neighborhood over to the college campus. I met a few people out on a Sunday morning, mainly walking the dog. Of course, I speak to the dog first.
I was amazed at the campus. If I had only been doing the college campus program. But I finished that a while back – walked 20 college campuses and earned my Ph.D. in walking. As I started walking what they call The Quad, I asked a couple of women outside a building what the names of some buildings were so I could match them to my direction and find where I was. I discovered I was making a complete circle of the buildings – or going in circles as I told the women and we got a chuckle out of that.
Down the steps, cross the footbridge over the lake and along the football field. What a glorious view. It was a nice fall day. Colorful leaves on a few trees. Going up the hill I passed a residence hall that looked like it was built in the late ‘50s and resembled the one I lived in when I was in college at Kent State.
Today’s style came into sight as I crossed a concrete footbridge. And beside that building sat an older one of outstanding architecture. That’s one thing I like about a college campus – the old and the new almost side by side.
The route took us past the high school named for John Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth. And back through a wooded area to campus. Alongside campus we went into a residential neighborhood of new homes. One house had a sloping yard and to prevent erosion, the owners had ‘landscaped’ it with art work. Gee, what you see while walking.
Coming out of campus onto the National Road (again) I saw old and newer again side by side – a log cabin business sitting alongside a Victorian style. What a neat walk! I want to go back.
Maybe I will. The National Road program continues through 2012. There are walks in seven cities in Ohio and West Virginia. I have walked six of them. I still have Fairborn to do. Looks like that will come up the end of January. Won’t you join me?
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