Sculptures

These sculptures can be found behind Pannell. I'm not really sure of their meaning, but they are very interesting. If you aren't looking closely you might think the pipe is just a pipe. However, if you take time to look at it you will notice that there is a sculpture of a person inside. The other sculpture is a rock. I'm not sure of its significance, but it's pretty interesting. Did students design these? What did they want us to think when we saw these?

Butterfly Garden

The butterfly garden has always intrigued me. When I first came on a visit to Sweet Briar I saw this on my tour and thought it was awesome! I'm not sure when it was made or when the butterfly's come, but I hope to see when all the butterfly's come. I think it must be beautiful! The garden is located near the train station and while you can't see the shape of the garden standing so near to it, if you go up the hill a little bit you start to see that it forms an X. I can't wait to see the garden when it has all of the butterfly's!

Daisy

This "plaque" is found on your way into the old gym, Williams Gym. I know we had talked a little about it last class, and no one has figured out where it came from. When we went to the archives on Wednesday I noticed that someone had taken a picture of this and stuck it into the Daisy section. I'm really curious as to where is came from. Is it old enough to be from when Indiana was around? Or would it be something that someone relatively recently had made? Every time I go into the gym her eyes seem to follow me, and it's a little bit creepy! I wish we knew more about where it came from, it surprises me that no one knows more. 

Sweet Briar Memorial Chapel

The Sweet Briar Memorial Chapel has not always been a part of the Sweet Briar campus. As I researched online I found a bulletin called, "Dedication of the Sweet Briar Memorial Chapel." According to the bulletin the chapel was dedicated in 1967, or 66 years after the college was founded. I don't know if the chapel originally held church services--I assume it did. However, the chapel is now nondenominational and there are no church services. Many alumni do hold their wedding services here though.

Sculpture in the Chapel

This sculpture is hanging in the Chapel when you first walk in. The plaque next to it says "In Thanksgiving for Nancy Dowd Burton, Class of 1946, Timothy Savage Werrell Artist." As I was trying to research this sculpture I found out that there is a Nancy Dowd Burton Award and it is for alumnae classes. I also found out that Nancy and two others (Gladys Horton and Elizabeth Wood) all worked together to create the Boxwood Circle Giving Society which raises money. I am not sure what the sculpture is supposed to be, and I tried to research it online without much luck. I think it looks like a person holding someone or something, though I am not really sure.

Boathouse

I don't know very much about the history of the boathouse, but I do know that the "Boathouse parties" were originally held there. I also believe that the parties were there up until last year. There is a sign on the boathouse that says, "This lake and boathouse are for the use of Sweet Briar College students, faculty, staff, and their authorized guests only." I would really like to go into the boathouse and see what it looks like on the inside, but I really enjoy taking the time to walk down there because it is a nice, quiet, relaxing place for me.

Plantation Burial Ground

 This is one of the slave grave sites on Sweet Briar campus. We had talked about this particular one in class (the one by the small pond). I had never seen or visited it before so I decided that I would go look at it. It's very interesting because if you look at a distance it just looks like a normal field. It would be really cool if we could find some more sites! Where are some other sites?

The Bell Tower

The Bell Tower

I tried to look up the history of the bell tower and haven't had much luck. I walk past the tower everyday, and hear it chime every hour. Has it always been there? When was it built? And who built it? I would like to learn more about its history.

Thayer Field

 THAYER FIELD

The field hockey field, Thayer Field, was given on September 26, 2009. The field was given by Mildred Newman Thayer '61 and Bradley R. Thayer. The  SBC field hockey team of 1919, "played the first intercollegiate contest for women in the state of Virginia" (vixenathletics.com).