There was no moon, and under the low cloud cover a brisk unseasonable wind ruffled the old Norwegian maples that lined the street and dropped a fine rainofspring buds on my shoulders and in my hair.
Wine character fluctuates with each vintage dependent on how cool or how warm it got, the amount ofrain in the spring and fall, the wind and even the bird population.
These places, which sprung up on the edges of campuses like dandelions after a springrain, were the meeting places where students, professors, townspeople, out-of-town academics and other terribly interesting folk would meet, by intention or chance, and talk and learn from one another.