The UConn roof is dead!!   Long live the new barn!!
 
        In the northeast,  today was a day just too tempting not to take off.
  Spring is springing out all over.   The golfers were out,  the kayakers
were doing their thing.   It's been a long season.
 
        Drove over to Storrs for a little R & R to look at the progress on the new
rink.   Drove in from the back way,  past the baseball field.   Wow!   What
a shock.   Nothing there.   You can look right into the south end of the
soccer stadium.   The old Eero Sarinen designed roof with the heavy curved
laminated beams  --  gone,  not a trace.   The hunting lodge/warming house
from the early 1900's,  complete with the window shutters with the "CSC"
cutouts (CT State College)  --  gone,  no trace.   The slab with
refrigeration and the compressor house are all that remain.   About fifteen
folks in hard hats were huddled over some laid out drawings.   A fence
around the whole enclosure.   Quite a few construction trailers.   This
thing is on the fast track.
 
        After waiting so many years for this,  all I can say is "Wow,  that was
fast!!"   Now I can't wait until next Fall,  even as I suppress a little
bittersweet sadness for the old rink and warming house.   Time marches on.
 
        -- Dick Tuthill
 
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