{"id":587,"date":"2013-11-21T13:40:34","date_gmt":"2013-11-21T19:40:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/?page_id=587"},"modified":"2013-11-21T13:40:34","modified_gmt":"2013-11-21T19:40:34","slug":"tidbits-from-the-archives-happy-new-year-dec-28-1893","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/tidbits-from-the-archives-happy-new-year-dec-28-1893\/","title":{"rendered":"Tidbits from the Archives: &#8220;Happy New Year,&#8221; (Dec. 28, 1893)"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-modular-content-collection><p><strong>JANUARY 2004<\/strong><br \/>\nBy Jeff Sauve, Associate Archivist<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.stolaf.edu\/collections\/archives\">Center for College History<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The college archives has many photos of various people posing at historic landmarks found on campus, such the Ladies&#8217; Hall Elm. The tree itself was located on the hillside near present day Holland Hall.<\/p>\n<p>This photo resonates with me because the photographer, O.G. Felland, rarely created &#8220;holiday&#8221; compositions. I&#8217;m drawn to the sled at the base of the tree, the contrast of the new-fallen snow and the hollow&#8217;s darkness. Apparently the tree&#8217;s cavity had been burned out to prevent further decay. It was possible for a person to squeeze into it &#8212; to ponder, study or memorize.<\/p>\n<p>With the construction of Holland Hall in the mid-1920s, Ladies&#8217; Hall and the elm tree had to come down &#8212; the tree by dynamite, no less. In\u00a0<em>As it Was in The Beginning<\/em>\u00a0(1950) author Georgina Dieson Hegland noted that &#8220;Professor Felland was on hand with his camera to take a last picture. For him it was the occasion of losing an old friend, and he feelingly spoke out: &#8216;Who would take down that tree should be put in jail.&#8217; The thoughtful John Berntsen lovingly put aside several big chunks suitable for making\u00a0<em>Norse kubbe stoler.&#8221;<\/em>\u00a0(A\u00a0<em>kubbe stoler<\/em>\u00a0is a chair carved from a large section of log, common in Norway in the 19th century.)<\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>JANUARY 2004 By Jeff Sauve, Associate Archivist Center for College History The college archives has many photos of various people posing at historic landmarks found on campus, such the Ladies&#8217; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":209,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-587","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/587","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/209"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=587"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/587\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.stolaf.edu\/archives\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=587"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}