“A City Under One Roof”
Family heritage is a pretty cool thing. But, I feel like a lot of the time the family story is lost in only a couple of generations. Either the family forgets to pass it down, or the story just doesn’t get transfered to the new generations. Leaving everyone with just saying: “Yeah, I’m like, 1/4 german, 1/4 english, and like 1/2 irish.” I have a good buddy working to fix the family tree problem web 2.0 style. Think social networking meets friendster for the family tree. I’m excited to see what comes of it.
In the meantime, I’m in Boston for work this week. Boston’s cool, because almost all of my mother’s side of the family is from here. One of the coolest parts about this is that my great-great-grandfather built one of the coolest buildings in the entire city. Right on the corner of Boylston and Tremont.
What’s cooler? Emerson College uses the building as its basic hub of operations. The bookstore, dining hall, student union, and dorms. I can’t help but have a little bit of pride that something that my lineage created is not only in one of the coolest locations in Boston, but that it lives on as an intergral part of a higher education institution.
I love higher education, and I can’t help but think this is just pretty incredible that my family’s building is being used to house a college today.
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