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ee eo | i hn, BS IR ROE SOLACE RS AS AOR Me CR PEALE NT HNL Mi ee UY Saf Ak babies ad TE Bete oe oR ee SR tale ele en “Stones serve many pur- - poses. They build houses THE WALK OF FAME and fences, and paths to walk upon. When we come By Hamivron Hor 1 to die they keep the lasting President of Rollins College : record of our fame, tohether ; ; we be great or small, They nN THE campus of Rollins Collepe, situated in Winter are kind and loyal friends Park in the center of the lake region of Central Flori- of man.” da, is a shaded walk traversed all day Jong by the faculty and students as they go to and from the college classrooms. It is flanked on either side by a row of flat « x} ) stones of all colors and contours averaging about 18x12 inches in length and breadth. Each stone is engraved with the name of a famous man or woman and lis or her heme or place from whence the stone was taken. Whgnever | glance aut of my office window I am almost sufté, to sce visitors on the Walk, with faces down decipheridg ‘the in- scriptions on the graven stones. This Walk, as far as I know, is unique in conception and execution, It began this way: Some ten years ago my father suggested that we take some motor trips together during my summer vacation. The older one grows the more one appreciates a father’s companionship and my father was then nearing the end of his life. I asked him where he j would most like to go. He replied: “When I was a boy, I used to drive about with my father on his rounds as a country doctor, and on these drives he used often to tell me about ancestors and point out the old plates and home- ' steads from which some of them came. siipsest that we try to find and visit these old homacreads, fof which are situated in Connecticut and Massachusetts; It so happens that I own an old colapial Connecticut home, filled with antiques which in Revolutionary days was a tavern on the atage-coach turnpike between Boston and Hartford. As in many old New England homes, the side door of the house is more often used than the front door. : This side door is approached over a lawn from the gate, and I had decided to lay down some stepping-stones across this lawn, It occurred to me to get a stepping-stone from each of the ancestral homes and then carve on them the family name of the ancestor, the town in which the homestead was \ sar amt * fn arecaheatan arin . iar? cae! Ht Alain aia! sen te OE ea