The Old Playground

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Left: The 1893 championship baseball team’s photograph was taken on the church green. Below: This early form of football was …

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Mountain Days of Long Ago

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Mount Ascutney c. 1920s. Left: KUA students, with their walking sticks, on the summit. Below Right: Other students climbed the look-out tower.   …

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The Meriden House

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Left: The Meriden House, on the right, was a hotel that stood on the site of Dexter Richards Hall. Daniel Kimball’s …

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A Succession of Academy Buildings

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Left: In March 1948, the “Kimball Union Alumni Bulletin” cover featured the succession of class buildings and various additions and …

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Windsor, Vermont, October 21, 1812

Left: The Reverend Timothy Dwight, 8th President of Yale College, was a delegate to the Council of New England Churchmen who gathered …

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The Kimball Mansion, Daniel and Hannah Kimball’s Hilltop Home 1851

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Above: Titled, The Kimball Mansion, this drawing of the Kimball home was made by Caroline A. Walworth, KUA class of 1851, a …

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Meriden in 1808

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In 1853, Dr. Elias Frost drew this map from memory of how the village of Meriden looked when he first …

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Commencement Celebrations Long Ago

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Emma Bailly was a long way from her home of Milford, Pennsylvania, when she graduated as a four-year senior, in …

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KUA and the Great Outdoors.

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In the middle of the twentieth century, KUA was one of a handful of colleges and high schools who participated in …

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A Community Project

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So it was under the tall white pines in Meriden, in the first bird sanctuary in the world, led by …

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