You know how when you get older, you start telling your kids, your nieces and nephews, your students – just anyone younger than you are – about how “none of this was here when I was your age?” That was me at James Madison University today while talking with my daughter. The new part of JMU (east side of 81) is pretty cool and the architecture is dramatic. I might just be exploring more this weekend.

I went to school when the Carrier Library was the only on-campus library (and it had one less floor than it currently has). This is the second on-campus library across I-81.