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Perusing Providence

9/5/2011

 
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Did I ever
show you
a picture
of my front porch?



No?
 

Well unfortunately, it's not this beautiful, classically understated front porch.
This front porch is just one of hundreds and hundreds of centuries old porches located in Providence, Rhode Island.


Tim and I are in beautiful Providence, Rhode Island assisting our daughter
in getting her apartment together.


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Our daughter is a graduate student
at Brown University this year.

Let's call her Sweetness.

Tim and Sweetness are standing on my
for reals front porch,
the one I was so embarrassed to show you that I instead tried to pass off that blue house porch up above as my own.



I know, I know. My porch could use some sprucing up. Some more detail.




But if you ever saw the roofline of my house, you would see that the detail there more than makes up for the sparse porch space.





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All RIGHT, ALL RIGHT! So that's not my house!
It's a church.
It's not the first time I've lied on this here blog.
You should be used to that by now.

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I will not tell another lie and say this is my summer home. 
I will not tell a lie and say this is my summer home.
I will not tell a lie and say this is my summer home.
It is wrong to lie.
Lying is bad.
Do not lie Angie.
Don't do it.
Don't do it.
You know where liars go.



OKAY, OKAY!
Sheez! The house above is another gorgeous historic house in Providence on our short walk from Sweetness's apartment to the Brown University campus.
 
                    And it's a gorgeous walk!

Most every home on the walk to campus is beautiful and stately and painted in colonial and victorian colors and they all have shutters and well kept shrubs and flower beds.
Home after home after home. Old, stately and
meticulously maintained.




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Sweetness and her sister were more literary than their momma at about age 2.

As we continue our walk to campus, we arrive at
The Literary Arts Building,
where Sweetness will become more literary.

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We walk to the Green courtyard area where more Brown buildings are located. And countless chairs from the undergraduate opening ceremony that had just ended moments earlier.






Brown was founded in 1764, the 3rd college in New England, the 7th college in America.

 We turn around and see Sayles Hall below.
This building was built in a Romanesque style.


And when you walk inside...
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3350 pipes in this organ that was donated in 1902.
Gorgeous!!!!
 Sayles Hall was built in 1881 as a multi-use center and was was used for ceremonies,
alumni functions etc.
 
Also kind of interesting is the fact that the Brown baseball team held some practices in this hall when it was first built. How they did that with those stained glass windows is compelling.

Well of course we walked upstairs in the Sayle's Hall building to see where Sweetness will have one of her classes.
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To make sure Sweetness was comfortable with her new setting,
Tim pretended to instruct
while Sweetness
pretended to think.
 




Sweetness showed us a couple more areas on campus...
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And we wound back up at the Brown bear statue on the Green.

Lots of students were posing for their parent's cameras.

Everyone seemed happy;
students and parents.

Although all the parents looked tired and drained to be honest with ya.


And then we made Sweetness pose in front of the Bear.
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Sweetness took some artistic liberties with her pose.
And then we made Sweetness promise to get all literary and everything so that she will take care of us in our old age.

And Sweetness just laughed.

She apparently was not aware that we were serious.



Hope everyone is having a fantastic Labor Day!





Mom
9/5/2011 11:48:28 am

WOW!!!! You sure had a great tour in what I have always heard was a georgeous town. now I can relate to it, seeing all the pictures. Juj you study hard and have fun and make lots of friends.Friends are very important in our lives you know. XOXO Gram

jrmadsen
9/5/2011 12:26:45 pm

I can't wait until we can go visit these places. Sounds so interesting. I need to go to Sharon's first. Always some place to go. How about Creston soon. The porch and house are lovely.
JR

jrfmadsen
9/5/2011 12:32:04 pm

I wrote my comment before I saw the pictures which are great and very cute. I love sweetness. She is the greatest. My day was filled with so much fun what can I say to top yours?? Hurry home, hurry home to us your pets.

Kimberly K
9/5/2011 01:13:34 pm

Well, I love sweetness and the professor. So, we need to go out there after we visit the South to Auntie Sharon's. Looks like a great place for us to visit "sweetness". I do love, the professor, however!

alda
9/5/2011 03:48:15 pm

I am so glad to see that the "professor" still has great looking legs. Unsigned admirer

JoJo
9/8/2011 07:06:17 am

AMAZING BLOG!! Loved the pics of RI-Sweetness is going to make wonderful memories!

Kimberly K
9/8/2011 07:12:18 am

Just a great blog and the professor does have great legs "if I may say so"! As for sweetness....the pictures tell it all..........


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