[JMU] The more things stay the same, the more they change...

[acroyear]

Any JMU grad on my f-list will know what I mean.

If you've been by the campus recently, you'll have seen the construction on the end of the Quad.  If you've been by VERY recently, you'll have noticed the old 3 story row houses across from the Quad are gone (note: I haven't seen this yet, but a coworker has).

At first I was worried they were building a new building that would enclose the Quad and lock out the open view, much as GMU did years ago.

Actually, no.  It's just to build an underground viaduct (much that was talked about YEARS ago), not for access to Anthony-Seeger, that former elementary school we all took Comm and Psych classes in.  It's for access to the new Music and Arts performance center.  That new building complex is going on top of the old row houses, next to A-S.

Click the link in the upper left for the PDF with some of the schematics and details.

And no, I'm not going to "name a seat" (not at $1000, even with the tax deduction), though the idea to name one in honor of "VAX 1" is VERY tempting.

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[ladyaelfwynn.livejournal.com]

This past summer we went through H'burg on our way home from vacation and I got to see the empty space that was where Lincoln House (the costume shop) used to be and darn near cried. I wondered what happened to the ghost that was said to haunt the place.

It was fun to have an actual house as th costume shop. The different rooms were like different treasure troves. My two favorites were upstairs. I loved the shoe room and the hat room. **sigh**

Such is progress.

[eac.livejournal.com]

Of course, I do remember the costume shop. I just didn't mentally place it there.

[eac.livejournal.com]

I don't think I've been back to JMU in a decade. Which is a shame, really.

I don't remember the row houses - I didn't spend enough time over there. I do, however, remember Anthony-Seeger and the A-S school library collection which was somewhere in the stacks at Carrier. When I was unhappy at JMU, I would go and read my favorite books from the 5th grade and cry there.

Have I mentioned that I would never want be 17 or 20 again for anything?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

Have I mentioned that I would never want be 17 or 20 again for anything?

Once or twice. Don't blame you at all - I ain't going back or pining for "the (not terribly) good old days" either.

I knew the houses better since I needed them on occasion - one was the Episcopal student support center; another housed the math dept offices while Burruss was being refurbed during our first 2 years there. That one later became a different church-student support house.

My guess is that those religious student offices/support centers are now in one of the several student union centers the school now has.

[eac.livejournal.com]

Well, I do miss having all that free time to play on the Vax and wander downtown and play with clothes. And read.

And now that i think about it, I remember Canterbury House, too. All that lovely wood. *sigh*

It's good to see JMU spending money on the arts, though.

[shalandara.livejournal.com]

I also loved going to see the old A-S school library collection at Carrier. DOwn int he basement, and badly shelved. sigh. We're just finishing reading Susan Cooper's "The Dark is Rising" at nighttime. That is one of the joys of being a parent -- getting to read these books to my kids.

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

My mom has all of mine, and now that she's no longer an elementary school teacher, they're *mine* again when I'm ready for them (as in, when I have a kid).

[shalandara.livejournal.com]

I haven't been back either, but I've seen some of the development pictures and plans from the Alumni magazine. Saw that they bought the old Harrisonburg High.

Now, there are times I really long for the old VAX system. sigh.

[thatliardiego.livejournal.com]

Viaduct? Vy not a chicken?

[acroyear70.livejournal.com]

I don't know why-a-no-chicken. I'm a stranger here myself. All I know is that there's a viaduct. You try to cross over there a chicken, and you'll find out why a duck. It's deep water, that's viaduct.

[stori-lundi.livejournal.com]

'Bout freakin' time!! We needed a new arts center when I was a major as Wampler...excuse me Theater II, was constantly being flooded. But since theatre majors usually have more student loan debt than income, we were backburnered until practically everything else was built.