Mystery Monday: through the mill
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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8:00am January 23 2023
Your assignment today is to identify the spot on campus where we found these one and a half millstones. Extra credit if you know (we don't!) why there are one and a half millstones here.
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Where - I am not sure - but are these the famous Branford millstones that came to Memorial Quadrangle by oxen? If so are they temporarily displaced?
No, the millstones in the Memorial Quadrangle--one each from Branford, Saybrook, and Killingworth--are still safely embedded there.
<> Time for educated guess. The leafless weeping beech tree in the background suggests Farnam Gardens on Prospect Hill, not far from the Yale Farm. <> I have no idea why the half-millstone is there, but it's forlorn state suggests an area known only to the groundskeepers.
<> Alternative guess: Backyard of Yale President's House on Hillhouse Ave...also has a weeping beech.