HLS historical tour

[supercheesegirl]

I just took a historical tour of the HLS campus. My first instinct, when they offered this tour to the staff, was to leap on it immediately (in fact, I missed the one they had last summer and was hoping they'd offer another one, and when they did I signed up right away). As of 9:00 this morning, I didn't feel like going and hearing about a bunch of dead boring white guys, but I went anyway because I had signed up and it was too late to cancel and give someone else my spot (there was a waiting list). Well, I'm really glad I went. HLS is cooler than I thought! I got to see some neat things in the library, like the seeekrit-type room that looks like it has windows from the outside but on the inside has no windows and is self-contained and doesn't actually touch the outside wall, because it was built during WWII and they did bomb research in there and didn't want anyone to be able to plant listening devices on the walls. Now it holds a lot of historical treasures, like portraits of the founders of the school and Oliver Wendell Holmes memorabilia, like the trunk he used when he fought in the Civil War. In the rare books room I got to see a really old, unique copy of the Magna Carta, and Vanzetti's gun and bullets, which were the major exhibit during the Sacco & Vanzetti trial. And I learned all kinds of stuff about the architecture and buildings and origins of modern legal education. Go me.