Monthly Archives: May 2024

Last Dance at the Rice Hotel,

A while back I got an unexpected phone call from a family member of J. Sayles Leach, who served as a Rice trustees in the 1950s and 60s. I’ve written about Mr. Leach here, in a post about this courtyard, … Continue reading

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“First carving, Sallyport”, 1911

A student recently turned this up in one of Julian Huxley’s scrapbooks and brought it to attention: I’d seen the image before but had apparently never bothered to turn it over. I did this time and found a note in … Continue reading

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