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Fall Orientation Trip

We start the year with a bang: The Great River Road Trip along the Connecticut River Valley.  The week-long fall fall orientation trip is a concentrated introduction to the year and the new class. At every turn there is an opportunity to analyze place and orientation to the year and the new class.

Not only do working relationships get forged, but we also start to develop a shared vocabulary and common places of reference.

On the trip students and faculty learn of the tremendous natural and cultural resources of the Connecticut River as we travel from the mouth of the river to its headwaters at the Canadian border. Students and staff also discuss important planning and design issues with professionals and citizens from communities along the river.

 

On day 2 of its Great River Road Trip, the Class of 2007 with Prof. Ken Byrne and Paul Cawood Hellmund (back row, right) cross the Connecticut River on the Chester-Hadlyme Ferry, established in 1769.