Stetson Chapel

Kalamazoo College is probably best known as host to the USTA Boys Nationals tennis tournament (lousy Wikipedia link), but the college has been home to the Kalamazoo Bach Festival for nearly as long. While Stetson Chapel's not the only hall the festival's used, it's always been the main venue.

I first attended this festival in the early 1960s, and made it to most festival concerts until about 1980. For several years in the mid-70s I joined my father and sister in the Festival Chorus under the baton of Dr. Russell Hammar. So Stetson's familiar ground.

It's a gorgeous building. And Kalamazoo's an excellent, small, liberal arts college with an international emphasis. I very nearly attended K instead of Macalester.

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I was in Kalamazoo again, obviously, last September 4, I think to transport my sister to a doctor's appointment. On the way I realized I'd not taken any Kalamazoo pix except around the hospital. Why not, I thought, visit K's campus?

The 366 Snaps photo for September 4 features a shaded meeting area behind the chapel, with what I believe is Mandelle Hall--a library when I was in high school, but long since converted into an admin building--in the background.

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This photograph is an outtake from my 2012 photo-a-day project, 366 Snaps.

Number of project photos taken: 25
Title of "roll:" Kalamazoo College
Other photos taken on 9/4/2012: I took along the V1, and shot a few campus pix with that camera as well. They weren't significantly better than those I took with the tablet.