[Alumni-chat] small colleges

[alanbenard (alanbenard at pobox.com)]

>>(She was ready to go to Antioch herself in the late '50s when her father became ill, making it necessary for her to pick an east-coast school at a time when a trip from NYC to Yellow Springs took three days.)
>You're perhaps thinking of the late 1850s; in the late 1950s the trip
>took about 12 hours by car and a couple of hours by air. The Interstates
>weren't in yet, but for heavens' sake the Pennsylvania Turnpike had been
>in operation for years. I made the trip by car, air, and rail -- it was
>a simple overnight trip.
I'm just telling you what she told me. Maybe there was another reason.