Author: Arthur Mullen

Roger Sherman, also of Connecticut, was known to have given one of the shortest speeches in history at a bridge dedication ceremony when he said, "I think it will hold up all right," while testing the strength of the bridge with one foot.

The United States of Teddy / Yale Law School Bicentennial / Maple Tree on Humphrey Street — October 19, 2024

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"We the People of Union League Cafe, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defence, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of Teddy." -Marin

Christina and Romain / Harkness Tower / The Memorial Quadrangle — June 26, 2023

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"The cornerstone was laid on October 8, 1917, the two-hundredth anniversary of the raising of the first college building in New Haven. The Memorial Quadrangle was completed in June of 1921. The bricks used in the construction of the quadrangle are old ones from torn down buildings, giving a low-toned soft pink impossible in new bricks."