Installment 1. Please support Sheafe's continued involvement in the Williams community: http://sheafesatterthwaitewilliams.blogspot.com/2011/01/letter-from-aaron-reibel.html
To Whom It May Concern:
This book is an edited compilation of weekly papers composed for Art History 201- American Landscape History. Though this is my first college term paper and ideally not my last, it will be one of the last Art History 201 papers written for Sheafe Satterthwaite’s American Landscape History Course. Following in the footsteps of the presumably several thousand S.S. alumni, I participated in three weekly 10’ o clock lectures and discussions for one semester. Perhaps more notable, however, were the Tuesday afternoon field sessions, Forced March in the Troy area, and countless lunch and snack bar discussions with S.S. himself. The time and classes spent with S.S. has introduced me to an incredibly brilliant person, who can remember most details about students now approaching retirement, and who has an innate ability to connect ideas and places in ways unfathomable by most humans. I’m not completely sure what memory S.S. will have of this paper, but such a matter is trivial, and this paper is not written for S.S. inasmuch as it is written for anyone with the time and interest in reading such a work.
Throughout your reading experience, you may be slightly confused about the juxtaposition of seemingly disconnected ideas, or by the apparently random addition of topic content, class context, field sessions, and readings. Feel free to be confused; this is a somewhat natural response. About this paper, S.S. wrote in the 2011 Syllabus, “little book = subject (you have chosen to research) + course context” or “landscape = man + habitat”.
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