Go here. Looks like construction is complete.

This is my last Photo ID. I graduated five months ago, and now I am graduating from this weekly series. I think this is an appropriate picture for this occasion.

I now pass over the reins to a member of the Class of 2011. I hope that over the course of the first few months of her time at Williams, while I have been posting the last pictures I have, she has been able to take many pictures that she can post here. I look forward to seeing them.

This is my penultimate Photo ID. So, relate any nice memories you have of this street.

Recall, for a moment, the first Photo ID almost three years ago, in which I explained what the Photo ID game would be about:

Here is how it works: I put up a picture taken somewhere on campus. You tell (a) Where it was taken or what it is of, and (b) stories about it from your time at Williams. Part (b) is optional, but it is what makes this game fun.

There has not been as much Part (b) as I originally hoped for, but I have had fun posting the pictures, and I hope that you have enjoyed them, too.

What special room is inside this attractive stone corner?

Where is this lovely doorway with the school seal?

They spent a few days installing this. I’m not sure why. Does anyone have a guess (in addition to identifying its location)?

This is a place many have been inside, but few have wandered around the back of.

Hints:
Small: http://www.ephblog.com/archives/images/PICT3978-thumb.JPG
Full-size: http://www.ephblog.com/archives/images/PICT3978.JPG

This isn’t at Williams, per se, but here’s hoping you can still identify where it is, even if you’ve never been there.

Where does one stand to see this lovely view of the college in the valley?

View with hint in the foreground:
Small: http://www.ephblog.com/archives/images/PICT5518-thumb.JPG
Full-size: http://www.ephblog.com/archives/images/PICT5518.JPG

Credit to Ronit Bhattacharyya ‘07 for suggesting this view for a Photo ID.

Where is this lamp?

Since it’s kind of difficult to identify without context, there is a larger view:
Small: http://www.ephblog.com/archives/images/PICT3971-thumb.JPG
Full-size: http://www.ephblog.com/archives/images/PICT3971.JPG

What is slightly challenging to identify now in a nighttime picture will become all the more challenging in a few years when it ceases to exist as we know it.

This is the back of a dorm. Which dorm?

Likely unnecessary hint: The front of this dorm has already appeared in a Photo ID.

This one is a little more difficult because it’s a texture without context. But I believe you can do it.

Because it is more difficult, there is a hint. I have put the URLs below, but have not made them links.
Small: http://www.ephblog.com/archives/images/PICT3982-thumb.JPG
Full-size: http://www.ephblog.com/archives/images/PICT3982.JPG

This was mostly obscured by construction this past year, but it’s still a rather nice place.

In her valedictory address at graduation, Priyanka Bangard ‘07 spoke about how, coming to Williams from California and never having visited the place, she thought she would be all right because she had heard about Chapin Beach, and she liked the beach. This spot is similarly strangely named, though not quite as strangely.

P.S. Jonathan! Note the tree!

Where is this small balcony?

Hint picture: http://www.ephblog.com/archives/images/PICT4000-thumb.JPG

It’s my birthday, so today your job is to identify one of my favorite stories about Williams and Williamstown: Why there is this lovely grass on both sides of the road throughout Williams, and what the exception to this rule is.

Hint.

I’ve decided to bring back Photo IDs, because I have leftover photos of Williams that might as well be posted. David has recruited an incoming member of the class of 2011 to take over in the fall, but we can have my photos until then.

Where is this? And what is the rule?

Detail: small, full-size.

Credit: The taking and posting of this photo for a Photo ID was suggested by Ronit Bhattacharyya ‘07.

Ebenezer is my favorite name associated with Williams, even more than Ephraim.

To take this picture, I had to balance my camera on the spare tire of a car parked across the street. For all that effort, it’s not that impressive, but the stained glass is kind of nice, and now you can see all the pictures.

This looks like a secret garden leading away or something, but it’s not. Where is it?

Sheafe Satterthwaite once described this space as the college’s “advertisement” to those driving by on Route 2, as an example of the studying that goes on at Williams. (Too bad no one is studying there in this picture.)

This is weird. What is this doing sticking out of the step?

Looks kinda like the top of a castle or a prison, but what is it?

(I worked to get the tree into the picture.)

Not particuarly difficult, but appropriate for Easter. I’m pretty proud of this one. Note the shadow of the tree.

A woman walked by with her dog (in the dark?) while I was lying on the sidewalk bracing my camera to take this picture. “Oh, I wondered what that was,” she said, “but it’s a body.” Yup.

I just thought these were really weird-looking. Does anyone know what they do, why they are shaped like this, or why there are four of them, other than that it looks neat?

Where are we looking in?

Today we have three unique windows. Identify their locations, or give your best guess.

Into what building are we peering in the darkness?

I would never have noticed this thing, except that when I was here in the summer for SMALL, a faculty band performed during science lunch, and Professor Kirby banged on this for percussion. Any guesses where this is?

Here’s a similar detail from a building on Spring Street.

Guesses and commentary welcome.