Two items that may be of interest to the list.    

1) The first is the naming of a campus building after a man William and Mary enslaved in the late 18th Century:
 
 http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2016/history-made-wm-dedicates-first-buildings-named-for-people-of-color.php <http://www.wm.edu/news/stories/2016/history-made-wm-dedicates-first-buildings-named-for-people-of-color.php>
 
	We don’t know much about Lemon but we know a little:

		https://scdbwiki.swem.wm.edu/wiki/index.php?title=Lemon

2)  The annual Lemon Project Symposium will be held in the spring, at William and Mary, March 17-18, at Miller Hall, the Mason School of Business.   The theme will be "Black Revolutionary Thought from Gabriel to Black Lives Matter.”  I will distribute the call for papers when that is ready.

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Terry L. Meyers, Chancellor Professor of English Emeritus, College of William and Mary, Williamsburg Virginia 
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http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/ <http://wmpeople.wm.edu/site/page/tlmeye/>

http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html <http://www.ecologyfund.com/ecology/_ecology.html>
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      Have we got a college?  Have we got a football team?.... Well, we can't afford both.   Tomorrow we start tearing down the college.
             --Groucho Marx, in "Horse Feathers."


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