1 Comments Posted by Indermellanie

I attended Bennet in the seventies and found myself near Millbrook a few years ago so I decided to visit. To this day my shock remains unabated. Looking up to my old room I was eighteen again and could see and hear our conversations, classes, teachers, and feel all the energy that such a community generates. I lived in a large room in the front where we would hang out the window on Friday afternoons and watch the girls, transformed for the weekend, greet their dates. I still have many friends that were in school there with me and theyhave decided it would be far too sad to ever see Halcyon Hall again. We never considered it beautiful. The only thing that saved it from being forbidding ,even then, was the youth and exuberance that the buildings contained. Halcyon Hall was judged so flammable that there was immediate expulsion for any student caught smoking in any room other than one of the two designated areas that had been specially constructed for that use. For me, the decay is not only shocking for the obvious reasons, but I never would have belived that a place that was so vibrant and alive could reach such a dilapidated condition in about thirty years. It would seem I would have to be at least two hundred years old!