If you haven’t spent time at FHL you may not realize that it is a miniature university campus, with its own housing (dorms, cottages, and other units), full-service dining hall, library, and lecture spaces in addition to the lab buildings, research equipment, seawater system, and dock operations. Over 60 buildings, from large dormitories and labs to one-person huts, are scattered over the roughly 30-acre campus that comprises the “developed” part of the 476-acre FHL preserve.
Wilmerding: Recommends Island Stage Left's Comedy of Errors
Stage Left's twenty-third year evokes comfort and inspiration like the psalm. Arriving, a wide aisle separates masked from unmasked. Silence falls before the playful stage set. Two-tiered towers of domesticity and commerce bracket a spare and pointed arch framing open sky.
- Written by Gay Wilmerding
The Tide Bite below beautifully illustrates a number of ‘essence of FHL’ phenomena. Cassandra tells us how she first came to the Labs and then returned repeatedly while rising through academia. Not everyone thrives at field stations, which are ‘messy and wet and remote’, but Cassandra found her niche here. Her essay also shows one of the intangible benefits of our summer camp atmosphere: scientists of all career stages and diverse interests interact with each other, leading to novel collaborations that arise out of conversations at the lunch table or shared observations on a field trip. Our very full campus this summer will create many new colleagues for our students and researchers!