When I used this photo of the Woodson in a post last week I stopped for a moment and thought about how much I love the library and how wonderful it is to have such a calm and lovely place to work.
This is what the space looked like when I first arrived, circa 1991:
Ghastly but I loved it then too.
Bonus: See that framed piece on the wall at left? It’s from the Illuminated Sacred Music Manuscript Collection and if you go here you’ll find a fantastic story and podcast from 2013 about how Rice grad student Melisa Palermo figured out exactly what it is.
Extra Bonus:
Dear Melissa, Thank you so much for your delightful presentation at St. Paul’s today. My husband and I arrived on the Rice campus in 1968 so it was all very a very vivid account of some exciting days on the Rice campus. Mary Dix
Melissa,
Thank you for the bonus pic…always good to see mighty Sid Rich still rising above Weiss!