Just yesterday, I was able to spend a few minutes poking around the bone yard. It's overgrown now, but I may get the chance to go again this winter, after the growth has died back. Cool stuff in there, for sure!
Journalists never once described any architectural features that were exceptional, unique, or otherwise iconic and remembered for historicity not sentiment. The architect mentioned floor height and entrance width, stone and terra cotta, but what made them significant? The photographs of the original 1869 initiated building showed cast iron or stone pillars with an interesting design, but were they rescued from the first building for use in the second or recapitulated for the new building that subsequently burned in 1969, only to be shown in the modern pictures in what the architect referred to as the "bone yard"? That would have been interesting to know, because it would explain why the artifacts were interesting in and of themselves. Or perhaps they could have spoken of how much of Old Main was constructed of local materials such as Southern Illinois limestone and sandstone, locally produced tile and ceramic features, or of Southern Illinois white oak or cypress? There was much unique and native to Southern Illinois itself in the building but one wouldn't know that from the article. There was no mention of the draft and how significant it was to SIUC students in the 1965-1973 period, greatly affecting their life choices, academic careers, and family lives...and the connection between the draft and the ROTC program housed in Old Main. I will say I thought it was technically well produced, the performances, interviews, and editing all quite good.
I arrived at SIU to begin as freshman 2 days after I graduated HS. Very strange to be interviewed by government agents wishing 24 hours about the arson loss of Old Main. Strange school year start. That academic year ended strangely too as school was shut down in May-1070. I resumed my College education at another university entirely. Still-the turbulent times did not prevent me from falling in love with the Nature of Southern Illinois-so ….years later-I returned with our family. All in all I felt scrutinized here as a student /a student that had Absolutely No Reason to be scrutinized. Nevertheless- we Still love Southern Illinois 😍🥰😍
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Just yesterday, I was able to spend a few minutes poking around the bone yard. It's overgrown now, but I may get the chance to go again this winter, after the growth has died back. Cool stuff in there, for sure!
Journalists never once described any architectural features that were exceptional, unique, or otherwise iconic and remembered for historicity not sentiment. The architect mentioned floor height and entrance width, stone and terra cotta, but what made them significant? The photographs of the original 1869 initiated building showed cast iron or stone pillars with an interesting design, but were they rescued from the first building for use in the second or recapitulated for the new building that subsequently burned in 1969, only to be shown in the modern pictures in what the architect referred to as the "bone yard"? That would have been interesting to know, because it would explain why the artifacts were interesting in and of themselves. Or perhaps they could have spoken of how much of Old Main was constructed of local materials such as Southern Illinois limestone and sandstone, locally produced tile and ceramic features, or of Southern Illinois white oak or cypress? There was much unique and native to Southern Illinois itself in the building but one wouldn't know that from the article.
There was no mention of the draft and how significant it was to SIUC students in the 1965-1973 period, greatly affecting their life choices, academic careers, and family lives...and the connection between the draft and the ROTC program housed in Old Main.
I will say I thought it was technically well produced, the performances, interviews, and editing all quite good.
I arrived at SIU to begin as freshman 2 days after I graduated HS. Very strange to be interviewed by government agents wishing 24 hours about the arson loss of Old Main. Strange school year start. That academic year ended strangely too as school was shut down in May-1070. I resumed my
College education at another university entirely. Still-the turbulent times did not prevent me from falling in love with the Nature of Southern Illinois-so ….years later-I returned with our family. All in all I felt scrutinized here as a student /a student that had Absolutely
No Reason to be scrutinized.
Nevertheless- we Still love Southern Illinois 😍🥰😍