[TheForge] Yale Yellin gate...

[Bruce Freeman]

I hate cities.

I went to New Haven yesterday, figuring a Sunday would be relatively
slack.  I couldn't find a parking place anywhere near Yale.  I found
one $6 lot completely unattended - but I wouldn't leave the car there
and risk returning and finding it towed.  Finally I found a spot a few
blocks away from the Harkness Tower, where one Yellin gate is
allegedly located.

http://www.yale.edu/publicart/yellin.html

The tower is easy to find - it's a tower, after all. But no gate.  The
area is cordoned off from the street side for construction.  And
despite being informed that Yale is an "open campus" - it's not true.
I walked around the quad and found it takes a pass card to get to the
inside of the quad.  By this time I'd done a lot of walking and seen
no significant ironwork.  The bimbo I reached by phone at the
visitors' center didn't know squat, so I gave up and decided not to
waste any more of the day in New Haven.

Whence, I went to a bookstore well out of town and found a book that
documents how Bessemer stole Wm. Kelley's "pneumatic process" for
making steel.

-- 
Bruce
NJ