Mastodawn

Eagle Globe & Flanker Jun 29, 2024

#Minerva #WellsCollege #FingerLakes
Students Kissed Her Feet for Good Luck. Now She’s Missing Her Head. https://www.nytimes.com/2024/06/21/arts/design/wells-college-minerva-statue.html?smid=nytcore-android-share

Wells College’s Beloved Minerva Statue Is Decapitated

A replica of the Athena Giustiniani that greeted students at Wells College for more than 150 years was accidentally decapitated in the scramble to close the institution forever.

The New York Times

Anne Deschaine Apr 29, 2024

Wells College in the US, home of the venerable Wells Book Arts Center, is closing.

https://www.wells.edu/closure/

(h/t conservator and bookbinder Peter Verheyen)

#bookArts #bookbinding #papermaking #handpress #letterpress #typeCasting #typeOrnaments #academia #higherEducation #WellsCollege

Closure Announcement

Wells College

PattyHankins May 30, 2023

Blog post with a couple of photos from Wells College, Aurora, NY in 1919
My grandmother Evelyn Clara Call worked at Wells College in 1919-1920 after graduating from Cornell with a degree in Home Economics. I'm not sure exactly what her job was - every source lists it differently!
https://pattyhankins.blogspot.com/2023/05/wells-college-aurora-new-york-1919.html

#FamilyHistory #Genealogy #WellsCollege #Aurora #NewYork #1919