preserving "the best-known small town in America"
In it’s early days, Windham College utilized as many as 21 pre-existing buildings in Putney for classrooms, dorms and more. Tom Jamison, with the help of Barbara Taylor and Karen Gustafson, has mapped some of them. These maps show the extent of the college’s presence in the village. Click on each map to view a … Read more
By Nancy A. Olson My journey to Windham College began with an F in eleventh grade English, my favorite subject since I first learned to read. Because I didn’t like the teacher, I decided I would show her by not doing any work. At the age of seventeen, I had a very fuzzy understanding of … Read more
By Barbara Taylor It’s Labor Day weekend, September 1965. The car is packed and my parents are driving me up to Windham College (about 500 students) in Putney, VT. We take the highway system up through Connecticut and pick up Interstate 91. We reach Greenfield, MA and have to get off, it hasn’t been finished … Read more