Dam good
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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9:02am April 05 2018
What’s this stone carving on the side of Benjamin Franklin College all about? The fact that it faces the Farmington Canal Greenway is a clue: what’s being depicted is one of the wooden locks on the nineteenth-century canal that once ran on the site of the greenway. The Yale & Towne lock on the lock is a bonus visual pun.
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