From Crusty Old Dean-The image to the right (left) was taken in the summer of 2012. These are blue garbage bags stuffed with carpeting and other interior debris from a building renovation. Old, broken-down office furniture is stacked amidst the piles of garbage bags.
The building that was being worked on (still is, BTW) is Bexley Hall, a structure on the campus of Kenyon College that served as the home of an Episcopal seminary from 1839-1968 (the seminary was founded in 1824 but moved in 1839 and eventually took its name from the building in which it was located), and after the seminary's departure served as home of the studio art department. The place where these garbage bags are stacked is Colburn Hall, located directly behind Bexley Hall, and which served as the seminary library. In a place where generations of theological students studied for the ministry, garbage bags were unceremoniously heaped and cheap, broken desks and chairs stacked. Crusty somehow found it a fitting metaphor for Kenyon's relationship to the Episcopal seminary it housed for so many years. COD is currently Academic Dean at the institution which is the successor of Bexley Hall, Bexley Seabury Seminary.
More here-
http://crustyoldean.blogspot.com/2014/10/requiem-for-seminary-or-piling-up.html
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