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Sewanee: A Few Years Later

Today's guest blogger is one of my best friends, the wonderfully talented and beautiful Catherine Clifton, and she's writing about one of my favourite places in the world! Picture taken by Caroline Williams, C'14 �Where�d you go to undergrad?� �Sewanee: The University of the South.� �Oh. Cool.� You have no idea, person who has never seen my mountain views and my Gothic architecture and my black-gowned scholars and my madras sportcoats. �Cool� will suffice if you�ve never heard of Sewanee, but let me educate you, because the love I have for my alma mater just can�t be contained. Picture a place where it�s entirely possible to meet a new person, but feel like you�ve known them for a good long while. After all, they had that English class with Reishman and his tattered gown that only covers one of his shoulders; they missed the sound of bells over the summer when they went home; they know that Lake Trez is probably radioactive; they�re familiar with Highlanders, Wellingtons, h...